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On Friday Apr. 27, the 6 PM KMBZ news report by Bill Grady was about a
possible ethics problem by Johnson County District Attorney Phill
Kline. KMBZ's Grady was trying to make the case that because Phill
Kline's picture was on a web site, www.chargetiller.com,
run by a group in Ohio, he somehow was responsible for that web site, and
somehow had violated ethics rules. Here is a link to the story they
put on their web site:
KMBZ, Apr 27, 2007 14:17
Johnson
County's District Attorney Phill Kline Is Featured On An Anti Abortion
Website, Says He Probably Won't Ask That It Be Removed
KMBZ's Bill Grady inquired about the site to the
Kansas office of disciplinary administrator, which oversees ethical
infractions by attorneys in Kansas. Alexander Walczak, deputy
administrator the office viewed the site and told KMBZ it " raises
some ethical concerns that should be looked into. " Walczack also
says he'll read through the text thoroughly, to consider whether it raises
concerns of Kansas rules of professional conduct. The site is operated by
an Ohio group called Women Influencing the Nation.
In an E-mail question from the site's owner in Ohio, Jenn Giroux, who
heads the group "Women Influencing the Nation" said this about
Grady:
I received a very hostile phone call from a reporter named Bill
Grady at KMBZ ... where our radio ads ran last week. He asked
me to do an interview about the Chargetiller website. ... I have
probably done well over 200 interviews in radio and TV in my life and this
was one right up there under the most hostile and one with the most
malicious intent that I have ever done. I say this because of the nature
of his questions. This reporter seemed to have no interest in why we chose
to begin our educational project to inform folks about the miscarriage of
justice in Kansas. No, he spent the entire interview trying to establish
that www.ChargeTiller.com
was started by Phill Kline. No matter how many times I tried to tell him
that Women Influencing the Nation is not affiliated with Phill Kline his
entire focus was Phill Kline. In the interview I told him that his
insinuation that we were just a front for Phill Kline was not only false
but also an insult to the mothers and women around the country, who have a
serious and compelling interest in the open borders of Kansas where any
predator can drag our daughters across state line and obtain an illegal
abortion because Kansas own attorney general is not enforcing his
own state abortion laws. This reporter had no interest in the
facts or the truth.
A former elected official in Johnson County said this about Grady:
I have had some personal experiences with Bill Grady and he does
have his own agenda. He has been hostile and hateful in his interviews
with me as well.
Is "political agenda" part of journalism school now?
Here is a picture of Bill
Grady from the KMBZ web site:
Using the same "logic" Grady used in his original report, I
can now claim that Grady has violated some sort of journalism ethics rules
because his picture is on this web site?
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