Hey Milan Simonich, Can You Be More Obvious???

Seriously Captain Obvious, just who do you think you are kidding?

In case you missed it, check out Milan’s column in Sunday’s edition of the El Paso Times. He writes about the medical examiner’s important role.

TC won’t shut up about the Medical Examiner and last week’s meeting of Commissioner’s Court featured some comments by Public Defender Clara Hernandez that alluded to a long rumored relationship between Milan Simonich and Theresa Caballero, as reported by the El Paso Inc.

And now you wrote on article about the issue she can’t stop talking about?

I just think people should know how they roll over at the El Paso Times. Actually not all of the people at the El Paso Times, because most of the people there are ethical, hardworking journalists and it would be unfair to paint them with a broad brush.

Normally, in a sentence like the one I’m about to write, I’d use the word allegedly over and over to make sure I’m clear about what I’m saying.

I don’t need to in this one. This is how Milan rolls.

Earlier this year I wrote to the El Paso Times management inquiring about what I was told by sources within the El Paso Times about an incident involving the changing of a by line. I sent the email before my show started.

By the afternoon, I was contacted by Darren Meritz, a reporter for the El Paso Times at the time, asking me questions. It was meant to be a negative story about me. Like anyone would, I immediately thought it was payback because someone probably thought I was poking my nose where it didn’t belong and wanted to shut me up.

After Meritz had left the Times, I called him and asked about who it was that told him to call me regarding the negative story the Times was attempting to do. His answer, “It was Milan.”

I told him I wouldn’t say anything until after he’d gone on the record about the El Paso Times. He did so in this piece in the El Paso Inc.

When are they gonna right the ship over there at the El Paso Times?