The Energy Solutions Transcript-Bulletin

Or: Talk to Warchol, Lose Your Column?

When you talk to a blogger, you just may lose your job. That’s the lesson Tooele Transcript Bulletin weekly columnist Bob Henline learned after he told Salt Lake Tribune blogger Glen Warchol about a column of his that was killed. He told Warchol the reason editor Jeff Barrus rejected the column: that he wanted to provide readers with a diversity of topics. The column in question was about an incident in which a tanker filled with toxic waste leaked from a hose that had been repaired with duct tape at EnergySolution’s facility. The Transcript Bulletin didn’t cover the story.

Considering the Transcript-Bulletin silence on any/all things Energy Solutions, I’m not sure Barrus understands what “diveristy” means. Or “newspaper,” for that matter.