Fired journalist Bruce Selcraig said DeBerry's accusations of sexism and bias amount to a 'smokescreen' and that she wanted to kill his story. SanAntonio SATX SanAntonioTX BexarCounty Texas Journalism Newspaper media TrishDeBerry
under Mark Medici there seems to be a timidity and amateurish self-censorship that, I think, comes from his not ever having been a real journalist.”
“Journalism must strengthen democracy, not undermine it by shrinking from our role as watchdogs for the truth,” she added.Earlier this month, Trish DeBerry accused attorney Thomas J. Henry of funding dark money ads against her. City Editor Greg Jefferson met with him Sept. 30 at a north-of-downtown coffee house.
Following the meeting, Duvoisin said he was killing the story and reassigning it to other writers to avoid the appearance of bias, according to Selcraig. Selcraig’s misfired text pertains to DeBerry’s claims about the origins of that dark money. In a text he showed to the, which he said he accidentally sent to the candidate, Selcraig suggested that one aspect of the dark money issue be downplayed in the story because “we probably don’t believe Trish.”
"Your refusal to meet with management, or even respond to the company’s numerous attempts to address the substance of this matter with you, coupled with your refusal to acknowledge the seriousness of your conduct, leaves us no choice but to terminate your employment effective immediately," Medici wrote.
“There’s got to be more to it than this text; it’s all the stuff we don’t know that matters,” MacCormack said. “It doesn’t look good for a paper to yank a veteran reporter off a story and fire him because he’s upset a major political figure who happens to be running for county judge.”Dallas Morning News
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