Hole in the Wall
Hooray for Jordan Smith!
RECEIVED Mon., April 27, 2009
Dear Editor,
Whenever I think I'm getting tired of the enormous Chronicle that has evolved over the years, starting with the long-winded editorial (I've learned to skim it for the pertinent facts), I come across a great restaurant ad or something very unusual to buy from someplace I never knew existed.
Or I come across a Jordan Smith article. That alone makes it worth picking up the Chronicle, for sure. Her stories such as “Believing the Children,” News, March 27, coupled with the Chronicle staff and its great lawyer (or lawyers) have consistently brought forth investigative articles.
Since we have an investigative reporter in the league of The Washington Post in little ol' Austin, I was wondering if the Chronicle couldn't start a yearly Jordan Smith Award of the Top 50-100 best investigative stories of Texas. I would love to be able to go to a list of articles by the best that Texas has to offer. And to bring some of the reporters together for an awards ceremony.
Wouldn't it be a sad hoot if the satanic experts in this latest exposé turned out to be the real satanists, who were trying to imprison as many innocent people as possible? Shame on the police, the prosecutors, and the judges involved who sailed this ship in this horror fantasy.
Take the song “Rape of the World” from Tracy Chapman's album New Beginning; the investigative reporters the Chronicle sponsors are the little Davids against the Goliaths of the world.
Whenever I think I'm getting tired of the enormous Chronicle that has evolved over the years, starting with the long-winded editorial (I've learned to skim it for the pertinent facts), I come across a great restaurant ad or something very unusual to buy from someplace I never knew existed.
Or I come across a Jordan Smith article. That alone makes it worth picking up the Chronicle, for sure. Her stories such as “Believing the Children,” News, March 27, coupled with the Chronicle staff and its great lawyer (or lawyers) have consistently brought forth investigative articles.
Since we have an investigative reporter in the league of The Washington Post in little ol' Austin, I was wondering if the Chronicle couldn't start a yearly Jordan Smith Award of the Top 50-100 best investigative stories of Texas. I would love to be able to go to a list of articles by the best that Texas has to offer. And to bring some of the reporters together for an awards ceremony.
Wouldn't it be a sad hoot if the satanic experts in this latest exposé turned out to be the real satanists, who were trying to imprison as many innocent people as possible? Shame on the police, the prosecutors, and the judges involved who sailed this ship in this horror fantasy.
Take the song “Rape of the World” from Tracy Chapman's album New Beginning; the investigative reporters the Chronicle sponsors are the little Davids against the Goliaths of the world.
Michael Brooks