Chronically Bad

The dreadful Chron may not cover local stories on their own worth a damn, but I'll give them some credit for keeping tabs on what the Houston Press and other publications are doing in their coverage of Houston. They recently ripped off the Press on both coverage of the flood's aftermath (and the regional watershed management program, or lack thereof, depending on which publication you read; the Chron link is dead now) and the Press coverage of the Justice Department's interest in the art car museum as a source of terror (the Chron link is dead now). So it's hardly surprising to find the Chron expand slightly on the Sheila Jackson Lee piece that appeared in the Weekly Standard, of course sprucing it up a bit with a few pieces of local flavor. That's some tough journalism! Of course, that issue is a week old, and John Williams might have looked at the most recent issue, which had this followup. But that would be some cutting-edge research for the Chron!

[Posted at 23:13 CST on 02/11/02] [Link]