Wendy McCaw Revealed!

The NLRB trial in Santa Barbara that has focused on whether the Santa Barbara News Press illegally fired reporters for union activities is nearing an end. Featured at the end of this trial has been the testimony of owner-publisher Wendy McCaw. As described this morning in Craig Smith's blog -- what we have running the local paper is an angry frumpy woman who has created a hostile workplace -- especially for any reporter who would write on matters of wildlife. The animal rights activist finds bias in any report that would suggest that her precious feral pigs and coyotes don't deserve the utmost in protection -- even if the pigs are destroying the environment on the Channel Islands.

What we see in the way she runs the paper is first pure hypocrisy and second a demand that the reporting of news follow the lead of the editorial page. In other words -- bias is in the eye of her beholding!

Again, it is too bad that a city like Santa Barbara is left with a daily paper that isn't worthy of putting in the bird cage or lighting the barbecue. I say this of a paper that before the meltdown was among California's best.