Friday, January 25, 2019

Sun Publisher Castigates City for Using a Straw Man

A well known technique used by governments and especially politicians, is to construct a straw man to change the subject to one more favorable to the straw man builder.

The co-publisher of the Wilco Sun, Clark Thurmond, does a masterful job of identifying the use of this technique and how it was used make it look like the city electric utility lost $6.8M, not $26M. Here is the editorial that appears in the January 27, 2019 edition of the paper.


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