Useful Idiots?

The Maven congratulates the Fort Wayne Housing Authority and their Executive Director Maynard Scales for the skillful use of the media in blaming the so-called "sequester crisis" in Washington, DC for all the money troubles experienced by their agency in Fort Wayne. To say that FWHA fed a line of bovine excrement to WANE TV is an understatement. The fact that WANE TV swallowed the bait, hook, line and sinker is even more incredible.

Note the headline in the WANE TV story. Thousands will be homeless in Fort Wayne? How can that be?

Here's the whole WANE TV story:
http://www.wane.com/dpp/news/local/sequester-cuts-threaten-thousands-with-homelessness

Now, it's one thing to present the FWHA's contention that the sequester issue might/will impact their operations. However, for WANE TV to present this as fact, with no corroboration or presentation of an opposing viewpoint, is classic laziness and journalistic malfeasance. 

Kudos to FWHA for 'owning' WANE TV on this one. The least they could have done was offer WANE TV dinner and a cigarette afterwards.