The National Review & Research: A Sad Story
Kevin Williamson, the founding editor of the conservative leaning Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, writes an article in the current National Review entitled "The Sad Philadelphia Story."
The National Review & Research: A Sad Story
Chris Brennan
Kevin Williamson, the founding editor in 2004 of the conservative leaning Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, writes an article in the current National Review entitled "The Sad Philadelphia Story." Williamson, who left the Bulletin in 2006, starts his sad story like this: "Philadelphia is famous for two things: cheesesteaks and murder." [No link is available, NRO requires an online subscription.]
Williamson goes on for three magazine pages listing the problems of "A failed city government" and "a culture of chaos." To make his point, he brings up the May murder of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski, who was gunned down with an SKS semiautomatic rifle while trying to stop a bank robbery. Williamson complains that the Daily News later ran a graphic about the SKS with the headline: "Should this gun be legal?" To hear Williamson tell it, nobody here bothered to question why the alleged bank robbers were on the streets despite long criminal histories.
"It's a question that needs asking, but Philadelphia's news media, clergy, and civic leaders won't start that conversation," writes Williamson, who must have missed this during his research. Or this. And this. Oh and this, this, this and this.
rob zombie edited the new bulletin? no wonder it's so badass!— parrishbrown
Don't you guys get it? Conservatives make things up (lie). Reality is not a concept they understand. We would still be singing God save the Queen if conservatives were a majority in the 1770's.- Guys like Williamson are horses' a$$es. They will pontificate about how we have to do better by our police in every area except doing the one thing most police groups want --- reduce the availability of the number & types of guns available.— yobill626
- All your links lead to "page not found"... fail.— Yoshiman180
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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