Midland Reporter-Telegram: Oops, Our Bad
As I just wrote, the Texas GOP is calling for Texas Monthly's executive editor, Evan Smith, to resign. The call came after a report in the Midland Reporter-Telegram, in which Smith is said to have "encouraged" Craddick challenger Bill Dingus to run. That would be bad. But the paper's editor said they got it all wrong.
"We interviewed Bill [Dingus] yesterday. Evan Smith had talked to Bill, but never encouraged him or said "you oughta run" or anything like that," said Gary Ott, the MRT's editor.
"It was our reporter interpreting Dingus incorrectly. I think it was an honest mistake. We're gonna run a correction in tomorrow's paper and have it on our website today."
