Trageser spanked again for bias by Bruce G. Krider, PPH chariman

Jim Trageser, North County Times, opinion writer has been embarrassed again by not checking facts before writing one of his hit pieces. This time he unfairly attacked the Palomar Pomerado Health Board of Directors. Their chairman responded with a forum piece of his own that smacked Trageser around, as he deserved.

The good teachers of VUSD have been among his favorite targets for his style of inflammatory phony fact rants against 'evil' strawmen that he creates from his own imaginary facts. See:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2010/02/jim-trageser-caught-in-lie-refuses-to.html

In a recent column Trageser attacked the Palomar Pomerado Hospital Board for trying to build a state of the art hospital in the North County that will not collapse in an earthquake.

Typical Trageser, he complains loudly when people with real responsibilities try to plan for the future. If on the other hand, there had been an terrible earthquake in the North County resulting in a PPH hospital collapse, he would then undoubtedly write a scathing fact challenged article about how stupid the PPH board was for not making the hospital earthquake safe.

With a yellow journalist like Trageser, there is no winning. Heads he condemns you, tails he condemns you. If the real facts are against his condemnation of you, then he just makes up some facts. No problem.

Since Trageser works at the North County Times, he has no need to worry that an editor will force him to justify his phony facts or charges when he condemns someone or some institution. Trageser loves unsubstantiated inflammatory rhetoric and he works at the right place where he can use it without fear of job repercussions.

Don't want to take my word for it, here is what Bruce G. Krider, chairman of the Palomar Pomerado Health Board of Directors had to say about Jim Trageser's style of writing:

"Trageser needs to base his opinions on facts and report them in a fair and unbiased way"--Bruce G. Krider, PPH chairman of the board

Here is my second favorite quote from the Forum by Bruce Krider:
"Trageser is right about one thing, though. He has literally no experience regarding hospitals. He is a features writer, giving opinions on music, books and culture. That makes him pretty unqualified..."

He also writes that Trageser's opinion is, "so far afield from common sense, it is hard to fathom." Grider follows up with, "Readers deserve better."

I could not have said it better than Bruce G. Krider. Let me second everything Krider wrote about Trageser and say that it goes double for Trageser's pointedly partisan and factually wrong columns about our fine VUSD schools and wonderful VUSD teachers.

Read the rest of the Trageser spanking by Krider here:
http://www.nctimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/article_b09cdbf5-421e-5346-a55e-a8e952f05d0f.html


In 2008 Jim Trageser wrote another hit piece about the good teachers of VUSD in which he makes five factually incorrect statements regarding the recall of the 1992-94 extremist board majority. See those statements in my next post or read them for yourself here:
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/08/10/opinion/trageser/z354f6144e8d0282d8825749f0060debd.txt

At the following URL you can find my comments about those five lies written at the time:
http://vistaschools.blogspot.com/2008/09/jim-trageser-editorial-nctimes-reply.html