Henry Payne accuses Free Press editors of slanted coverage.
Good thing Henry Payne of The Detroit News comes and goes via different doors than Free Press staffers at the papers' shared building, given his sharp shot at downstairs counterparts in a Tuesday post. He accuses them of partisan news coverage decisions.
"If you read The Detroit Free Press or New York Times, you were in the dark" about fresh discussions of extra scrutiny that the IRS gave to Tea Party groups' tax exemption applications, Payne writes.
Those two newspapers were among many in the Democratic press that continue to refuse to cover the IRS scandal. . . .
While this scandal cries out for full-court press reporting to find out who knew what when, the Freep and Times are looking the other way. There was no coverage of the unfolding scandal in weekend editions after a week of minimal mentions.
Under a headline that includes "IRSgate," the editorial writer, columnist and cartoonist refers to "a monstrous scandal without equal in the last 30 years."
Payne, who joined The News in 1999, edited a conservative commentary sub-website for the paper that was called TheMichiganView.com until it shut last year.
