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Kevin Fischer is an award-winning veteran broadcaster who has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for nearly three decades.
Kevin, who is a legislative aide to state Sen. Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin), can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, “InterCHANGE,” on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
You really didn't expect Jim Doyle to do the right thing, did you?
By Kevin Fischer
Friday, Jun 20 2008, 03:52 PM
Well, he didn't.
In his weekly column in the Waukesha Freeman, Mark Belling wrote this about the Doyle story:
If you get most of your information from the local mainstream media you don’t know that:
* Gov. Jim Doyle spent six hours in the middle of the flooding crisis to attend a golfing event to raise money for his own campaign.
The Doyle golf story was ignored by virtually everybody, although The Freeman printed a small story on Page 1. The head of the state’s largest political Web site, Jeff Mayers of wispolitics.com, told me he didn’t know about Doyle’s break from flood work to raise money while golfing (I guess "wispolitics" isn’t too connected with Wisconsin politics). The excuse from Madison’s largest newspaper, the Wisconsin State Journal, was even "better." Here’s what the paper’s managing editor, Tim Kelley, wrote to readers wondering why Doyle’s golfing while Wisconsin was flooding was ignored:
"We have a compelling story running in the morning about how and why many homeowners aren’t going to be able to get flood insurance coverage thanks to missteps by local officials who failed to update floodplain maps. That’s more significant reporting than taking a cheap shot at the governor ... "
Cheap shot! The media has apparently moved from ignoring all embarrassing stories about Democrats to now taking shots at those who dare to actually report them.
