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Originally Posted by SoonerDave
The golden age of OKC TV news journalism died about 20-25 years ago, when seemingly every station had truly investigative journalists...some exposing actual corruption in government and/or business....those were the days 
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Yep.. remember in the early 80's/late 70's when the Oklahoma Attorney General's office and Vince Orza (former KOCO reporter, former CEO of Eateries, Inc. and current Business School Dean at OCU) worked together to uncover, expose and prosecute E.K. Gaylord and a dozen or so OKC "elites" who had dipped their hands into the public trust and were using the tax dollars to enrich themselves while violating all kinds of open meetings laws and open records laws? Think the media would tackle that now? Hell no.
They'd rather be the spokesmonkies for the road and bridge contractors trying to drum up public hysteria when those contractors were after an increase in the fuel tax. Amazing how that issue just went away after the election, isn't it?
The Gazette in one of its every-once-in-awhile hand-wringing articles made mention of the fact that there hasn't been a "No" vote cast on the OSU Board of Regents in over 19 years -- a pretty condemning sign that the open meetings laws are being ignored completley.