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The Dayton Daily News chooses to report news that is friendly to the people who meet in back rooms and decide Dayton’s future. True investigative journalism is a thing of the past. Sometimes, stories are just slow to make it to the paper. These posts are breaking news or insight that the Dayton Daily News probably won’t cover or will get three days later.
Dayton Daily News Editor in Chief, Jana Collier, made me an offer I couldn’t refuse: get paid to investigate local political backroom deals. Starting today, I’ll be the new editor for the special investigative MetroGov desk. Collier said it was becoming obvious that most of her reporters were depending on Esrati.com for leads on stories, [...]
by David Esrati on October 16, 2012
in Justice, Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News, The Dayton Daily News isn't your friend
This “story” that WHIOTV ran today, is a prime example of manufactured news. http://www.whiotv.com/videos/news/columbus-craigslist-laptop-thefts/vf2b8/ Unfortunately- I can’t embed it here, like I can the well produced and much more factual story run by the Columbus station that got the story first. This was a laptop that I found on Craigslist. I sent my employee- Matthew [...]
by David Esrati on July 31, 2012
in Backassward Ohio, Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News
My first introduction to the Dayton Double Standard was when I bought my home for $14,500 in 1986. I proceeded to fix it up by putting up new garage doors only to be hauled into court for putting up wood grain vinyl doors in a historic district. First argument was how was I to know, [...]
by David Esrati on July 29, 2012
I almost missed the anniversary thanks to another discussion. Today marks the third anniversary of the murder of an American hero: Sgt. Maj. North E. Woodall See the previous posts: http://esrati.com/?s=woodall You aren’t forgotten Top. Chief Biehl, we’d still like to see this crime solved. The story is still hanging on my wall- looking at [...]
by David Esrati on March 17, 2012
in Random thoughts, Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News, underdogs
Note: On the request of Jeff- I’ve deleted most of the post. The Army-produced video has his rank wrong. Jeff doesn’t like the headline either- he’s not a hero- just a guy doing his job. I’m not changing the link. He’s still a hero in my book- for many reasons, Jeff Lee grew up in [...]
by David Esrati on November 4, 2011
in Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News, The Dayton Daily News isn't your friend
Dear Boss of Lynn Hulsey, When re-writing a story that broke two days ago, standard practice is to attribute your source. If you don’t know this, try reading about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism_sourcing The Montgomery County Board of Elections on Tuesday fired a part-time election worker for writing on a voter’s application for an absentee [...]
by David Esrati on November 1, 2011
Back in December of 2009 I wrote about a young US Army paratrooper who was going to transform our fair city of Dayton: We listened to political neophyte (because he doesn’t want to be a politician) give an hour and 15 minute ramble on how the “real people” will bring “real results” to changing Dayton. [...]
by David Esrati on October 4, 2011
in Economic Development in Dayton OH, Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News
When I’ve run for office, the fact that I’m a veteran wasn’t given much credit by the Dayton Daily News- that’s probably because they don’t employ too many veterans in their news room these days. But, yes, I’m a veteran- and I was a founding member of a business group for Veterans- VOB108 over 6 [...]
by David Esrati on August 30, 2011
in Stories you don't see in the Dayton Daily News, The Dayton Daily News isn't your friend
After years of pathetic writing, lame reporting, idiot editorializing and a butt ugly unsophisticated design, the Dayton Daily News has gone on a mad run to try to regain readership. All of a sudden, “investigative reporting” is its new thing. The “iTeam” is out to tell us all about government waste and prove that we’ve [...]
by David Esrati on June 1, 2011
The Dayton Daily news finally brings intelligent leadership to the editorial pages by promoting Ron Rollins to run the section. No more political party hack bias from Belcher, or pontifications from Sir Martin Gottlieb. Here is the official internal memo from managing editor Jana Collier: From: Collier, Jana Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 6:27 PM [...]
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