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Most Shameless Register Puff Piece Ever!
Posted by Gustavo Arellano in Naranja News
April 7, 2008 7:06 AM
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It's one thing for newspaper reporters to write about advertisers only because the advertisers buy ads, quite another for said reporters to cover an important community individual. The latter scenario is very much where Orange County Register reporter Tom Berg's Sunday story on mega-developer William Lyon falls. "The General" is one of the most important people in Orange County history, in the same way Serra was, so almost anything the man does affects county residents.
We add the "almost" qualifier because Berg's focus on Lyon yesterday falls under this category. Lyon was about to fly a B-17 bomber from Orange County to Washington, D.C.--huh? Is this a rare occurrence nowadays? Not really. Is Lyon setting a world record? No. This pedophile protector (strange that Berg doesn't mention that in his breathless list of Lyon charitable causes) is flying a plane--nothing more, nothing less. Yet Berg builds his man-crush throughout the piece, and spills his load at the end, describing Lyon as an "Orange County icon, standing in flight suit and boots, his gray mane combed straight back." Been talking to Dillow lately, Tom? Meanwhile, a quick look at the Sunday classifieds finds a full-page ad for William Lyon Home, just a bit of the mucho moolah Lyon has spent in advertising at the Reg for decades.
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April 7, 2008 12:14
Lyon was about to fly a B-17 bomber from Orange County to Washington, D.C.--huh? Is this a rare occurrence nowadays? Not really.
Yeah -- I think there are regularly scheduled B-17 flights to Washington out of John Wayne Airport.
Going a little over the top with this post, aren't we?
There are hardly any flight-worthy B-17 left on the planet, and I have a feeling it's pretty rare when one is flown from OC to DC.
April 7, 2008 13:17
A friend of a friend owns many rare vehicles--airplanes, automobiles, even tanks. Should they get a write-up every time they take a ride on one?
April 7, 2008 14:18
Maybe if he was going to drive his Sherman tank across the country.
There's something different about a plane like a B-17. It's an icon of the air war over Europe. There are maybe 6 to 8 in the world that can fly.
Here we have an OC icon flying a very rare WWII icon across the country. I think that qualifies as worth a news story.
Why are you getting so exercised about this?
April 7, 2008 14:45
You're the one who only comments 'round these parts when something doth offend you. My problem is one of overplaying an advertiser. And you might think Lyon is an OC icon--to me, he's another pedophile protector that so many county conservatives conveniently overlook.
April 7, 2008 18:56
So this really isn't a complaint about covering Lyon's cross-country B-17 flight. You just don;t like Lyons and object to any positive coverage of him whatsoever.
April 9, 2008 01:28
Lyon. General Lyon. Sir. Not Lyons
And when you use a semi-colon instead of an apostrophe, it gives the impression of a period beating down the apostrophe.
A newspaper's coverage ought to be objective, not necessarily positive, and when it concerns a major advertiser the conflict of interest is palpable.
Orange County doesn't like lions. What happened to Lion Country Safari?