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Article: Inside Scoop: The Peanut Gallery.
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- News & Record (Greensboro, NC)
- Article date:
- July 21, 2008
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Jul. 21--Reporters on occasion feel like members of the "Peanuts" cast in the classroom, trying to understand the teacher. Often we sit there in the audience of government meetings, mouths agape, hearing little more than confusing, squawking noises coming from the dais.
Reporters weren't the only folks in a haze Tuesday night at City Council's meeting. Mayor Yvonne Johnson participated by phone. But every time she offered a comment, it came out painfully muddled.
When she was voicing her support for an incentive request, it came out something like, "Whunh wunhch waah wunh waaa." Council might have to reconsider its telephone attendance ...