Following up on my post on this topic, in the nature of equal time, I thought I would print excerpts from a recent edition of the Dallas Business Journal, in which a senior hospital official from Parkland Memorial Hospital rebuts aspects of coverage by the Dallas Morning News.
Anderson said the Dallas Morning News, and the investigative team it has assigned to aggressively cover Parkland, has a "vendetta" against the hospital. He characterized that paper's coverage as "sincere, but sincerely wrong," and said it's "chipping away at the trust" people place in Parkland.
"Think about the negative consequences of someone who needs care holding back instead of going to Parkland," he said. "They'll suffer as much as anything that an investigative reporter thinks he's doing or she's doing for the benefit of the patients."
Part of the problem is that Parkland is an easy target, Anderson said.
"We're the house of conspiracy theories," he said. "JFK came here. So we know every conspiracy theory that was ever pushed out about JFK. Someday, I'm going to write a book about conspiracy theories about people out to get Parkland."
Anderson said the Dallas Morning News, and the investigative team it has assigned to aggressively cover Parkland, has a "vendetta" against the hospital. He characterized that paper's coverage as "sincere, but sincerely wrong," and said it's "chipping away at the trust" people place in Parkland.
"Think about the negative consequences of someone who needs care holding back instead of going to Parkland," he said. "They'll suffer as much as anything that an investigative reporter thinks he's doing or she's doing for the benefit of the patients."
Part of the problem is that Parkland is an easy target, Anderson said.
"We're the house of conspiracy theories," he said. "JFK came here. So we know every conspiracy theory that was ever pushed out about JFK. Someday, I'm going to write a book about conspiracy theories about people out to get Parkland."
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