Of all the issues to break on the Times-Standard Web site today, they attacked the ER for its inaccurate report about a Fortuna teacher who didn’t turn herself in last night as reported, but instead, turned herself in this morning.

I’ve seen both newspapers butcher facts, make inaccurate statements in court stories and overall fuck up, but never have I seen the TS so subtely, yet strongly, give the birdie to the ER.

The Mirror put it very well to say this had nothing to do with inaccurate info so much as personal animosity. I noticed the TS throw their reporter energy toward the courts after Wilkinson came on board and started reporting the hell out of it.

In what seemed to be a desperate and face-saving move, the TS sends wordsmith-Thadeus Greenson, Environmental Jockey John Driscoll, newbie Sean Garmire and at times Donna Tam and Jesse Faulkner to the courts, filling the newspaper with crime, crime crime and less community news.

Perhaps this is a re-emergence of years past, when both newspapers threw punches at one another on a regular basis. Certainly, the ER has shaped up recently in terms of its reporting after getting bitch-slapped by the TS for the the past year or so. Perhaps that looming threat, and new leadership, provoked TS leadership to begin calling out the ER on its otherwise trivial errors. Time will tell how heated the future will get.