Last week, Knox News Sentinel published the story about Knox County Mayor Timothy Floyd Burchett’s engagement and July 26 wedding. For a couple of days, comments were open and the online staff was busy, deleting inappropriate comments. On the News Sentinel comment section, E.W. Scripps “stringer” Betty Bean commented defending the Mayor and the Mayor’s fiancée. What was odd, is that the comments were mostly targeting the Mayor and NOT his fiancée. Facts and reality seem to never get through to Bean.
I have heard from numerous sources in and out of the Mayors office four years ago that Bean was rather upset with the Mayor then, because there was a belief that she was going to be the Mayor’s Communication person. But apparently, the salary range was not mutually agreeable, according to Chief of Staff Dean Rice at the time.
Now, several days later Bean opens up the can of controversy again here on knoxviews. Bean gets called on the carpet for her own recent comment slam on a Senate candidate on March 12, 2014 here.
The comment from March 21, 2014 is pictured below, the comment provided a link to a story about the personal divorce many many years before of the Senate candidate.
I guess it is just odd to me, that an E.W. Scripps “stringer” (a free lance writer) would criticize another E.W. Scripps entity in a public forum. Just not a lot of loyalty or logic, I guess.
