SHAME ON YOU PE

Tammy McCoy and PE editors meet Mr. John Hall. Apparently he is the only one yesterday who decided to do actual journalism.

John Hall went above and beyond in reporting a murder in Temecula. He got family members and the apartment owner. A better job overall than the PE.

The political attacks begin. But reporters need to be very wary Mr. Claverie. Is this story more important that the budget crisis or the real issues in town? No. This is a red herring that someone spoonfed reporters to detract attention. It’s getting way too much ink.

NOW FOR ANGER

Tammy McCoy tried to bring readers up to date on the Pimp N Hoes case. It’s a good effort but I don’t think Ms. McCoy has mastered these yet. The real attention should be turned on the families and the affects caused. She has written previews of murder trials but it’s a basic template. Where are the family voices? Where is the emotional tug?

McCoy didn’t have a great day. She was too busy forced to cover two breaking news stories and her court story. Does her editor not realize that other reporters should be able to step in and work on huge news stories?

Her story on the Temecula murder was short and said the police have no motives or suspects. That’s fine. But no one from the paper even went out into the community to ask people about the murder. THE APARTMENT COMPLEX IS TWO MILES FROM THE OFFICE.

I hate to say it but did the PE, including the editor, not cover this murder because it involved a Mexican. Sure seems like it.

When has there ever been a murder in town and the paper didn’t even send someone out to get quotes or dig for the story. If this is the way the PE will cover crime and major events in the future I plan to cancel.

Nine whopping paragraphs. Ms. McCoy if the person killed was a woman in a domestic dispute or a white man walking the streets of Murrieta are we only going to give them nine paragraphs in the future? That’s the precedent this paper set and it’s disgusting.

This is the biggest news in the community besides the fire and the PE passes on it.

I will not place the blame on McCoy. It seems like the editors messed up big time.

Let’s look at the stories that should have chopped so a reporter could be sent to the scene of the crime:

Jeff Horseman wrote about adding $39,000 to an annexation study. Are you serious? What a shame. What a disservice to this community and a blow to the PE’s integrity.

Burgin wrote about a council meeting and a budget. Nothing new. Nothing he hasn’t reported on. Then again I have never seen Mr. Burgin tied to any breaking news case at this paper.

Something better change in this Temecula section because I know Paul LaRocco or John Asbury would be all over that apartment unit trying to get to the bottom of this murder and actually do some real reporting.

Cute story by Sarah Burge on someone stealing a daycare’s Peanut's Gang. Once again, couldn’t this hold for a murder?