News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy is trying to defend (here) the timing of the Haslam failed business story. His explanation doesn’t measure up. During the 19 months of the Republican primary there lots of discussion on blogs from West TN, Middle TN and East TN about Saks Direct and the non Pilot business activity of the Knoxville Mayor. Let us not forget that Pilot procures 50,000 or more News Sentinels every Friday and gives them away for FREE and has done so for the past 7 years.