GOB on prowl
I like Betty Bean. Met her once with a bunch of the other hippies who hang out an Knoxviews.com. Invited her shooting. She said she’d go but I haven’t heard from her. Anyway, I like Betty because she’s the one columnist in Knoxville that isn’t afraid to poke the powers that be with a pointy stick. Apparently, she may be under fire for poking them with a particularly pointy stick known as Tyler Harber:
From what we have learned, when Betty found out that she had been ambushed, so to speak, she called Hallerin and got put through to his voicemail. Apparently she gave him an ear full, and in the heat of the moment may have said something about him being a “chickenshit.”
Rumor has it that a recording of her voicemail is being circulated among the GOB “powers that be” and that “Scripps brass” [as in E.W. Scripps Co. who recently purchased the Halls Shopper and also owns the Knoxville News Sentinel] have been notified.
Well, here’s hoping Scripps doesn’t do the wrong thing.
September 8th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Hallerin takes a recording of a voicemail to the News Sentinel, which is effectively Betty’s boss, to complain that Betty called him a “coward”.
Doesn’t that prove that Hallerin is a “coward”?
Betty could help increase the circulation of either the Metro Pulse or the Knoxville Journal if push comes to shove and the powers at the News Sentinel come down on her.
At this point in time Betty is the journalist in Knoxville with the most gravitas. Hallerin has become the “Oprah” of Knoxville and wouldn’t know a story if he tripped over it.
I thought Hallerin’s behavior was cowardly. If the “c” word fits then it fits.