Don't Pick a Fight With John Achibald of the Birmingham News

Arch has a mighty sword of a pen and he isn't afraid to use it.

In today's edition of the Archiblog, a devilish plan to oust John and control the flow of news was revealed that reads like a Matrix Group and/or Bradley scheme. John did not say who was behind it, but he gave us enough clues to start looking for ink-stained hands from the usual suspects who relish this type of subterfuge.

This kind of bullying goes on more often than not every day in Alabama, and it's refreshing to have someone as credible as Arch come out with it and expose the scheme for all to see.

John's one of those brave new frontier types who goes where others fear to tread, and we imagine there area lot of sore toes and heads that just want him to shut up and go away. In fact, that was exactly their plan, but they didn't think it through and Arch has revealed the plot in print.

Bravo John!

From his story:

They want me fired.

Perhaps they're right.

These anonymous people, these people who want me fired, dug deep into my past and set up a website to post their findings. They've gone door to door in mostly black Birmingham neighborhoods, leaving fliers that portray me as a liar and racist.

They've blasted emails of my inadequacies to co-workers and others on my contact list. They follow my children on Twitter.

Who are they? These anonymous people?

I knew they were coming. We at The News have known they were coming for weeks because a highly personal, highly technical plan was leaked to us in February. I can't now prove its origin or claim it as solid proof.

But it did outline a plan for trying to discredit the paper -- and me specifically -- as a way to please a client or clients. And while I can't say for sure who wrote it, I know now that steps it outlined have come to pass.f I am to continue to do what I do best: to look in the shadows your public officials and corporate titans don't want anyone to see; to tell you what's there without compromise, regardless of party, race or economic status.

......It's important now, more than ever. Because a war is being waged. It's a war not against The News, but against the news. A well-funded, well-equipped campaign against the free flow of information is being carried out by faceless people who want to tell you what is true or false based on their clients' interests and willingness to pay.

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When the current publisher of the Birmingham News, the-way-too-young-to-really-know-anything Pam Siddall arrived at the paper, lots of shake ups happened right away. They weren't positive unless you were a corporate client or one of the robber baron business groups who is constantly after hand outs and ridiculous ideas that the city cannot possibly afford.

Like a super sewer that turned into a giant black hole of monetary waste. Pun intended.

But they keep right on making deal after deal with the devil.

We are talking about a city that is on the verge of bankruptcy in one of the biggest financial debacles since Bell, California, and whose former Mayor, friendly to these bands of thieves, is cooling his corrupt heels in a federal penitentiary.

Birmingham is a city on the rocks whose future is uncertain of anything but more uncertainty. And corrupt deals. And more corrupt politicians who bow down to these masters of disaster. It's an addiction they won't seek rehab for.

John has gone after some these issues and players in an attempt to shine the light on their agenda and this is what he gets in return? A Joe Perkins style hit job?

This is what Alabama knows how to do better than anything else--fight dirty and make it real personal.

The politics of personal destruction is a sport to these evil men.

We support John Archibald and hope that in the end he prevails and this will not be the end of his truth. 

Because his truth is what we all need to know.

So Say We the Opinion Board of the Vincent Alabama Confidential

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