To the Editor of The Islander
You reference one of Aesop’s Fables in your editorial June 20, 2013 about a boy and a wolf and incorrectly relocate the event to the boy’s bedroom.
In fact The Boy Who Cried Wolf starts
“A boy called Peter lived with his parents in a village on the hillside. His parents, like most of the other people in the village, were sheep farmers. Everybody in the village took turns to look after the sheep, and when Peter was 10 years old, he was considered old enough to take his turn at shepherding…”
The moral at the end of the story shows that liars are not rewarded, even if they eventually tell the truth, as no one believes them.
Your apparent inference that the questions I asked are lies is interesting. Most people would be questioning the answers but your ruse is to suggest you do not understand the questions and pose hypotheticals which you then answer yourself in a vitriolic attack on me.
Most readers would, I suggest, consider you contacting me to clarify your intended front page article about my FOI request on the airport normal and responsible journalism. However I would also suggest that many would not think it normal for you to not make any reference at that time by similarly asking for clarification on the matters you then use to apparently accuse me of lying in your editiorial – very sloppy journalism Shauna !
My own views and not necessarily those of council.
Kangaroo Island Councillor Graham Walkom
I, for one, didn’t take Shauna’s editorial as accusing you of lying! In fact I found the editorial had merit with my take on it being that too many superfluous question could, apart taking up a huge amount of administrators time, eventually fall on deaf ears leading to important questions being ignored.
I wonder whether you got that message at all?
Yeah I must say, Shauna is a very shoddy character. Poor journalism, worse manners and a completely infallible belief that she is someone important.