Jorge Mesa-Tejada vs Hampstead big spenders (aka “IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!”) – Part 2 - Granite Grok

Jorge Mesa-Tejada vs Hampstead big spenders (aka “IT’S FOR THE CHILDREN!”) – Part 2

New WMUR logoUPDATE: We have Jorge Mesa-Tejeda on GrokTALK! right now.  A smoking gun?  It looks like Josh Judge, weatherman with WMUR, did the voice over for Superintendent Earl Metzler’s informercial for the school bond.  Guess they may have some ‘splainin’ to do. And part of the pique that Earl Metzler may have is that both Hampstead and Sandown want to leave his “lovely fiefdom” – thus the retaliation against Jorge as he is against the increased spending for a declining enrollment.

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Having watched the Hampstead Budget committee and being very curious as to why WMUR’s Kristen Carosa left out such an important piece of the story (er, the School Board’s infomercial for their $4.5 million dollar bond issue was the first mentioning a sniper picking off school kids).  Regular readers know that I do watch them and watch them with an eye to journalistic bias and their willingness to not always report “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth”.  And truth be told, when it happens to one of my friends, well, I want to find that truth.

So, I just called WMUR.

My call was picked up by the News desk contact Elyssa Ellis.  She seemed to be a bit confused when I introduced myself and that I was doing a story on GraniteGrok on how they reported the Hampstead Budget Committee story – and that they left out a crucial part of that story. I asked who the reporter was for the piece and it is Kristen Carosa who probably will not be in today (and I bet, if people start pushing back,  this weekend).

How convenient – smear someone’s reputation by “conVENiently” (as Howie Carr would put it) and leave the scene of the accident.

Keith Baldi is the manager; she promised me that I would get a call back or an email.

To be continued.

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