| The Story | Ricky Roghair gets a 99
year sentence for aggravated assault by a Wise County jury. |
| News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | **** |
| The Spin | Lesson learned: Don't hit
your wife with a fireplace poker, in front of your kids, after you tie
her up, when you've been to the pen before for aggravated assault. |
| The Story | The Messenger points out that
Walmart donated over $30 million in hurricane relief and invoked their
top level delivery and distribution system to get the aid where it
needed to go. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | The federal government would
have said the branch managers would have to call their district
managers who would wait for word from corporate management who would
say they had to hear directly from the branch managers before anything
could be done. All while thousands of trucks stayed in the garage. |
| The Story | Understanding
that Wise County might be the most conservative county in the
nation, how come you never hear any fallout from Ben Sargent
political cartoons that the Messenger runs. |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | For example, this one that equates the teaching of "intelligent
design" with teaching fortune telling and fictional movies. |
| The Story | If Northwest ISD has adopted this
school uniform, things sure have changed. |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | Photo
link |
| The Spin | In the weekly spotlight on high
school athletes, two students disclose a personal trait and a future
dream. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | One guy wants to be a cop
and has a pet peeve that makes him perfectly
suited for the job, and a girl wants to be the Queen of England but has
an ability which we don't think is germane
to the job. |
