| The Story | Accused Intoxication
Assault defendant, Betty Monroe, is released from jail after her
attorney posts a $50,000 bond. |
| )News worthiness (1 to 5) |
*** |
| The Spin | Yeah, it's a little
heady for The Spin, but the San Antonio paper began a two
part series yesterday on the questionable ethical dilemma
created by allowing attorneys to post bonds for their clients. |
| The Story | The Messenger profiles the ministry at the Wise County jail and points out that Bibles are given "to inmates who request them and [we] even purchased a Koran for an inmate who was interested in the Muslim faith." |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | "That drives me
crazy," said one fictitious inmate. "I'm in here for smoking a little
crank and they're giving that Arab bible to that guy that worships
Mohammed Ali? I thought these colors don't run, but I don't
know anymore." |
| The Story | It's been a bad week for State Rep. Phil King after a story reveals he lied about receiving free Super Bowl tickets from an energy company. |
| News worthiness | **** |
| The Spin | Well at least on the day he the story broke King wasn't at the mansion of an executive for that very same energy company raising money. Oh, wait! |
| The Story | Thirty to forty people show up at the Boyd City Hall to protest an ordinance banning goats within the city limits. (The protest included this golden banner of "Save These Goats.") |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | The crowd was whipped into a frenzy with one speaker: "I have a dream. That some day little pygmy goats can join hands and walk side by side with cats and dogs. I have a dream. That one day even the town of Paradise, a town sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice for goats." |
| The Story | Amazingly, more that
50 people have applied for the job of Police Chief in Rhome with more
expected. |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | The leading
candidate. |
