Tucson’s Legacy Media And Its Rancorous Rank And File
P.T. Barnum often receives credit for saying “there’s a sucker born every minute”. He may not have uttered the phrase, and now it turns out the phrase may not be accurate. Just as soon as Pima County and its crack communications team snapped up a willing and eager barker from that stalwart of the local legacy media, the Daily Star, that publication replenished its ranks, proving that a new shill is born every minute: Murphy Woodhouse jumped right onto the party line immediately after the election, attacking Ally Miller—and the constituency that supported her—while giggling giddily over his beloved Bronson.
First off, the reality: Ally leads in District 1 by seven points. Bronson leads District 3 by four points.
Now, Woodhouse’s world: His exuberant headline lauds “Sharon Bronson’s victory” as the text of his column pooh-poohs Miller’s “close race”. He tries to throw a barb at Miller, saying that the margin of victory in her August primary was much wider. Perhaps poor Woodhouse does not understand how a primary election works (perhaps, judging by his backward assessment of the two races, arithmetic fails him). Remember that Ally defeated her whinging opponent Winchester with votes only from her own party. Winchester did a fine job of digging his own hole in that race. In fact, he provided one radio interview that gave this author far more than enough fodder for two lengthy columns about what a terrible candidate he was. In the general election this week, a relatively quiet challenger competed with Ally for the nod from all voters of all parties in the district. Comparing the margins of the primary to the margins of the general is not unlike comparing the margins of a pre-schooler’s wide-lined paper to the margins of a receding gum line. In fact, there is no comparison at all.
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