By Wendy Dachel | Fountain Hills
How embarrassing! The Fountain Hills Town Council is in a sad state and imploding.
If a councilmember is “insulted” by their local coverage because it isn’t slanted correctly or leaves out needless information for want of brevity, they should not ask for a correction, rather, hope for coverage more to their liking with a different, more widely read publication. This way our town can be disparaged by the whole Valley. Ironically, the headline “Town retaliates against area newspaper” is erroneous – It was not the whole town, nor the whole town council, so this sounds more egregious than it is!
The point of the article was an explanation of why the local reporter’s table was removed from the room. It seems if they are not perceived as being fair and impartial they may not have their table. Interestingly, the table issue took a miraculous spin during the June 3 meeting and instead of pertaining to reporter’s comfort and punishment for unfair coverage, it suddenly is a need for more physical space, as per Mayor Freidel, and that shall be the end of it. Brilliant, but a little too late for redemption.
I’m wondering/concerned that at some point perhaps the YouTube stream may be cancelled due to dissatisfaction with how that media source portrays members.
Mr. Watts noted in his report time, which was used to attack a fellow member (and was allowed /encouraged to continue to do so for four minutes), that “giving favor to either side of the aisle is not acceptable.” Immediately after he spoke, the member he so blatantly attacked was silenced and not allowed to respond. So ironic.
If this is what reclaiming our town looks like, it should have been termed EAT – Embarrass A Town.
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