Nashville's major daily newspaper, The Tennessean continues to embarrass the state and dismay its readers with its refusal to hire a factchecker who can stay awake long enough to recognize even the most glaring falsehoods.
Never mind the paper's habit of catering to conservative causes and organizations, I am simply tired of rolling my eyes in disbelief over the countless absurdities presented as facts. Presumably, the paper refuses to make even the most minimal of efforts to get its facts straight.
It's true we all make occasional mistakes, but this Gannett publication has resources - including paid employees for gawd's sake - yet its opinion pages consistently present fiction as fact.
Take this recent guest editorial:
"I was recently astounded to learn that 25% of TennCare enrollees are employed by Wal-Mart. It did not take much research to discover that this is true, even though the number is not well known in Tennessee. It's one of the most outrageous developments in the checkered history of a good intention gone bad...
One in four TennCare enrollees works for Wal-Mart."
Good Grief! If 25% of TennCare enrollees work for Wal-Mart, somebody name a town after this retail giant, quick!
Astounded? I guess so. Before Governor Bredesen began to make his brutal healthcare cuts, in the past month or so, there were 1.3 million Tennesseans on TennCare. Who knew Wal-Mart employed more than 300,000 Tennesseans? No one. Other than the author of this opinion piece and the perpetually unconscious folks at the Tennessean.
What the writer should have said is that according to a recent study, about 25 percent of Wal-Mart's 37 thousand workers in Tennessee are on TennCare. That's 9,617, not 300,000 plus.
And Walmart is not the only culprit:
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2005/08/nashville-newspaper-is-embarrassment.html
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