By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZThe Paz Files
HARLINGEN, Texas - He's been known to go off on a tangent when he gets a whiff of something gone awry, like the actions of a corrupt politician or criticism of his beloved Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, but former newspaper editor and current blogger Jerry Deal also likes to stir the pot of bad menudo.
At present, he has let his Objective Journalism guard down and gone after Justice of The Peace Sallie Gonzalez in an indirect way, but gone after her just the same with what some would consider extreme vigor and a wholly underhanded manner. Deal has not played fair with Ms. Gonzalez.
It is not the first time Deal has wondered about her job performance or her ability to hold the job, but now he's piling on with stories (posts) in which he alludes to her, but doesn't name her. It has allowed a litany of anonymous Sallie Gonzalez wolves to attack her without mercy. We have noted Deal's approach to this particular woman before, primarily on the fairness front, writing in earlier stories about how Deal throws his ethics to the floor and simply goes after her on supposition and innuendo.
We do not endorse Ms. Gonzalez. We do not know her.
But it, too, is clear that Deal has burned her at the stake on flimsy hearsay he continues to post on his blog as credible information. Fairness would indicate that he visit with her, interview her on the issues he finds lacking and perhaps even review her caseload record to offer readers facts, not sloppy writing.
Ms. Gonzalez may indeed be the worst justice of the peace south of Kansas, but when Deal purports to be a reporter, he needs to follow the tried-and-true tenets of the profession. When we carped about the WhiteWings baseball team and its delinquent utility bill at the city-owned ballfield, Deal returned fire by asking us to "give it a rest." He never did bring pertinent info about that to Harlingen residents he insists he serves. When the team went off to the league championship in Canada towing nine players from the rival San Angelo Colts, Deal laughed it off as an "immigration" issue, one that kept a load of Hispanic players from making the trip.
That's baseball, entertainment.
His unrelenting salvos aimed at Sallie Gonzalez would be more meaningful if he included facts that would tell a reader why she is no longer fit for the job. To merely lob stink bombs at her feet and call it a citizen revolt is absurd and the game of an idle child.
Bring the goods. Hang her on wrongdoing. Note her faults. Ask that she step down or ask voters to reject her next bid to keep the office.
Only, for the sake of honesty, do it with facts. Be a real reporter.
And leave your prejudices at home. They have no place in journalism, as you know...
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20 comments:
Sallie must have refused to buy Deal a drink, or rebuffed a sloppy pass by the old sot.
Paz-Martinez, I like your comment's, however, many people have complained about how they are treated when they go before this judge.
I have heard this in private conversations and at the breakfast tables. There were comments about asking Dan Castillo to run for the post. But Dan is to busy seeking the position as city commissioner. And applied for the position of city manager in Santa Rosa.
Tony Chapa is supporting the current Justice of the peace, and has written nasty comments about the bloggers that post articles on Deal's blog.
Look, fair and balance journalism doesn't exist anymore. The bottom line is this, you scratch my back I will scratch yours.
You might one of the few, who stills believe in Journalism ethics.
Remember, Jerry Deal is posting articles as a blog master, not a Valley Morning Star reporter, or Newspaper editor.
However, there might be male candidate, with law enforcement background, who might get into the race. I know one Doctor has asked him to seek the position.
For Christ sake, lay off Jerry Deal before the cadre of women get on your case.
You have called Deal's female blogger's ditziz, when they called the on the judge, you called it a lynchings, are you trying to stiffle free speach, sounds like it, now you are picking on Deal.
Maybe some Sturbucks coffee to calm the nerves.
All:...I can't make it any clearer than I've already done. This story is NOT a defense of Sallie Gonzalez. It is an indictment of blogger Jerry Deal and his indefensible position of holier-than-thou slayer. Give Gonzalez a fair shake, and, then, if all is as you say, well, write it as news, not as a cheap, unfounded conviction. A cheap shot is not Journalism. And that is what Deal says he offers... - Editor
A message to Rudolf VonBulow, buy the woman off. Pay her off, I hear she still cares for you.
I also hear none of the guy's in Browntown had "ever" bought her Jim Beam, (Juk), nothing but cheap Junior Bonner draft.
Offer her, money, she will take it, she is low life. Do it now.
deal islike every other blogger down here. He thinks he's numbe rone and he thinks everything he writes is the truth. Thankz for the article. Right-on!
Okay, Mr. Editor, have Rudolf Von Bulow arraigned before Judge Gonzalez, and have the bond go up to a million dollars, yes, IT IS ELECTION TIME, AND THE JUDGE WANTS TO LOOK GOOD AGAINST CRIME. LOL
Von Bulow will walk! This girls is way over her head. Is it true Von Bulou once went out with Bianca Jagger? Well, there you go.
There are rumors, Rudolf eat's tacos at Taqueria Express, Paredes line road and Alton Gloor.
Potato and egg, flour tortillas with a strip of bacon and lots of Ketch up.
For someone with money, he eats cheap, I hear he was complaining because he paid .95 cents for coffee. What a cheapo
Johnny La chingas, Rudolf will not walk if he goes before Judge Sallie Gonzalez, she wants to make money for the county, and his bond will be over a million dollars. You bet-cha.
Von Bulou should give this girl a free trip to Vegas. She'll forget all about it. Unless there is something we don't know. Hmmmm
hey, Paz, your former "galpal" Melisa Zamora seems to be in trouble in Brownsville. Something about interfereing with a DWI/accident scene. Pobre mujer.
Cardinal fans, Madison has started trash talking, they are posting comment, such we bring a big following to, around 6,000. Harlingen can bring 15.000 people all we need is 11 on the field at a time.
What!!!, why are some of the bloggers, right here at the Paz-files offering VonBulow ways out of a crime. That is unlawful, he has to pay for what he did to Louise Herrera. She was abused by this bully.
You can't buy yourself out of this one. Brownsville men treat their women with RESPECT, IMPRESSING PEOPLE WITH JIM BEAM, WHAT A BUMMER.
I don't know about that girl making the allegations against Von bUlow. She looks mean and nasty. Sexy, but dangerous.
Rudolf, you animal, that is one hot number, she should have treated Louise with respect, like many of the Brownsville women are treated by their men.
You are a dawg, a woman like deserved better than Jim Beam, I would have bought her/and given her Southern Comfort. VonBulow, you met her at a taqueria, huuhhh which one, el taco express, maybe.
Louise, mi amor, pero que linda estas. Mi vida you te compro un carro, si tu lo quieres. Nomas dime una cosa mi amor, que tamano son 36 or 44, no le ace, asi te quiero mi vida.
Gail Moore comes from Kentucky where she lived in an enclave that was 98% white.
Gail Moore is not going to win, I was at the debate and she ran out of answer, she looks retarded. The winner will be Dan Castillo, forget the non child support man, he speaks worst than Tony Chapa writes.
Gail, and Juan Ortega look like two of the same. Juan eats tamales, Gail eats road kill, she is a hillbilly.
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