Earlier today we exposed an error in yesterday’s News-Sentinel. In the same post we exposed an error in today’s News-Sentinel. You can read that post, here. Well, we have found a second error in today’s News-Sentinel. On the front page, all the pictures of every candidate on the ballot in Knox County is pictured.

Even uncontested candidates for re-election like Cindy Buttry and Indya Kincannon are pictured. Even a candidate that self financed his campaign like Dr. Richard Briggs, candidate for County Commission Fifth District Seat C is pictured.

So why would an unopposed, self financed candidate not be pictured? Especially if the candidate is in fact on the February 5, 2008 ballot, unopposed and self financed. The candidate that is unopposed and self financed and was left out of today’s newspaper is Republican businessman Bill Phillips. Phillips is a candidate for Knox County School Board, Eighth District. Phillips is unopposed and self financed.

Phillips has been a longtime friend of Republicans, of Education and to the Knox County Sheriff’s Department.

Is his absence from the front page of the News-Sentinel because he supported the Sheriff’s Department Pension Plan? Is his absence from the front page of the News-Sentinel because he is a friend of real Republicans and not the downtown politicians? Only Jack McElroy will be able to answer these questions.