When will all of the spin from our local radio station end? If KSHN thinks someone is guilty, or they want them to appear guilty, their “news stories” make them sound guilty. If KSHN thinks someone is innocent, or if they want them to appear innocent, their stories make them appear that way.
KSHN‘s advocacy for prior Liberty County Judge, Phil Fitzgerald is a good example. Liberty Dispatch will not speculate on why part owner of KSHN radio Bill Buchanan has had such a well known desire to have Fitzgerald exonerated, but he has one. KSHN learned late Wednesday afternoon that former Liberty County Judge Phil Fitzgerald has been indicted in Federal District Court in Beaumont. He must have been greatly disappointed. But his efforts to discourage federal investigators from charging Fitzgerald have now failed. But don’t expect that Buchanan will give up so easily. Buchanan has tried to influence public opinion and the courts around here for over thirty years.
So what does KSHN’s little one sheet “news” say about the indictment? It says exactly what Fitzgerald’s lawyers would want potential jurors to hear: “Mr. Fitzgerald confirmed he got a phone call from the Federal District Court that he was indicted and he looks forward to getting these issues resolved. He did not know if there were one or more charges against him.” It doesn’t tell readers what Fitzgerald has been accused of and it doesn’t remind them that while most of us suffered financial damage during the hurricane, Fitzgerald was making a small fortune.
Buchanan continues to try and paint political stories and scandals the way he wants them to be, but a federal judge’s sealed indictment will detail the charges in the indictment tomorrow. The feds may have to work a little harder with KSHN working against them in the background, but hopefully Fitzgerald’s guilt or innocence will be unaffected.
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The only people Buchanan is fooling is his advertisers who believe people are actually listening to his garbage. Also those liberty personalities he has believing he has some kind of power. ROFL
With Satellite radio and internet radio and information, KSHN is nothing more than a dinosaur just like Buchanan, both doomed to become extinct in short order.
When Buchanan is gone, many people will rejoice, an old toothless snake gone.
Anyone taking bets on who will be indicted next?
Lee Groce?
Joe Warren?
Mike Little?
Beauselil?
Sellers?
Gilmore?
Connors?
Stratton?
Hunt?
Dennis Odell?
You forgot Rusty Hight and Zack Zbranek on your list.
Yes Sir and add this Hospital District Board to your list.
Well,if Phil leased his trucks to his brother-in law and his brother-in-law leased them to another company in Moss Hill then the company in Moss Hill was awarded all the cleanup contracts from the Commissioners Court then it sure sounds like something fishy was going on. If it smells like a fish and looks like a fish then it probably is a fish.
how about john and nancy archer? think they have stole enough money to be indicted?
Harrelson's gonna get Archer on fraud with this new case that she's filed.
Also add the Chip, Russell, and Jim Fairchild to the list. Who hasn't been hurt in one way or another by one of these three?
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