Bellingham City Council Member Jack Weiss claims to have “punk’d” KGMI by telling Dillon Honcoop that he cancelled an August trip to Arizona, when he actually had no plans to visit Arizona in August. He just made up a trip for Honcoop and then canceled the made up trip. KGMI swallowed it whole and ran with it.
An exerpt:
“The way that he was talking, it just seemed, ‘Well, why aren’t you doing it, when are you going to pull the trigger on this thing?’ It was inappropriate. That’s not how journalists are supposed to collect news,” Weiss said.
This is not good for KGMI on so very many levels.
The problem here is that KGMI is not inspiring the proper respect that it would otherwise be due from local elected officials.
I have a hard time believing that Jack Weiss would handle an interview with Sam Taylor from the Herald like this.
An elected official might find local media to be occasionally annoying. But if a local media outlet inspires a politician’s inner Ashton, that’s not so good for that media outlet.
A local elected official intentionally deceived KGMI and then publicly bragged about it to the Herald.
That’s not KGMI getting “punk’d”, that’s KGMI getting “pimped”.
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