City’s failures revealed

The citizens in our great country have been subjected to sloppy investigative reporting for years. It’s a disservice to its subscribers and readers. The mainstream media are bringing their demise on themselves.

Let’s take Forbes magazine, and its stories about Spokane over the years. Sometimes they say Spokane is great and is upbeat and at other times it shows our city looking like a cesspool with dung all over it.

To me, the magazine shows poor investigative reporting and appears it lacks honesty and integrity.

A couple months ago, Forbes published a story about how great Spokane was. Heck, a decade ago, Forbes used its poison pen, telling everybody how bad the River Park Square scandal was. That story gave both City Hall and developers a black eye (I think both deserved the shiners).

Last week, the Forbes Web site named Spokane “Fraud: Scam Capital of America” (I agree). The magazine will be out May 25, and publishing its Web site story.

It doesn’t say much about its investigative work in past years. The May 25 story may be the final nail, and I believe more accurate than usual.

Dick Adams

Spokane