Paper shows its double standard

Ted Davis
Published: October 12, 2008

The past few days/weeks of your devoting so much space to Councilwoman Barr’s tax problems, is the epitome of using the old double standard, in my opinion. Where was the outrage when Glen Hill
failed to pay his taxes for many years?

It is rather difficult to imagine why he did not pay the taxes (which he eventually did) for year after year. 

Where was the outrage from your paper and it’s readers? Here we have it: Barr is a white female and Hill is a black male. Do we see a pattern here? I wonder why the media would opt to look the other
way when it comes to reporting/commenting on black politicians when they commit the very same misdeeds as their white counterparts?

Now that Glen Hill, as sheriff, is the “chief tax collector” in the county, I find it more than a little ironic and wonder how much remorse (if any) Hill feels for failing to perform his civic duty as the rest of us
have for so many years? Again I ask: where is the outrage?

It seems that the office of the sheriff is, for some reason, being protected by the media and I find this most disturbing.

There has been no follow-up or details of an investigation of the escape of the prisoner last year. Is this because, according to the sheriff, the case is “still under investigation?” We, the citizens, need to
know the truth. We deserve that much.

TED DAVIS

Gainesville