WFAA: John Wiley Price Shoves, Threatens Shipp

Remember the recent Park Cities Rotary meeting where John Wiley Price was slated to speak (and left, apparently, when WFAA’s Brett Shipp arrived)?

Well, the county commissioner and reporter exchanged words again today. And this time, says WFAA, it got physical.

By Georgia Fisher Aug. 10, 2011 | 3:40 pm | 7 Comments | Comments RSS
7 comments to "WFAA: John Wiley Price Shoves, Threatens Shipp"
  1. kmom @ August 10, 2011 at 3:55 pm
    Commissioner Dickey has taken so much crap from that man over the years, I don’t blame her for bringing a reporter with her to meet with him. But I do not like her choice of reporters, I’m sure there are legions of folks that would like to smack that guy around.

  2. Spock @ August 10, 2011 at 5:35 pm
    Brett Shipp was born in Dalllas and raised in the Park Cities. Graduated from Highland Park High School. His father was one of the best newsmen in Dallas for many years behind the scenes at WFAA.

  3. rwilson @ August 10, 2011 at 5:54 pm
    I don’t understand why people are so down on Shipp. Is he my favorite person in the world? No. But part of his job is to go after creeps. It takes a certain confrontational approach. Who else is going to do it? The smiling anchor? The weatherman?

  4. Matt @ August 11, 2011 at 11:50 am
    Sad commentary on Dallas County when a county commissioner can openly assault a reporter and threaten to kill him—when the reporter was covering a story on public property. And since when does a county office become a commissioner’s property? Didn’t he threaten some citizens a couple of months ago during a meeting? Why hasn’t he been arrested?

  5. mk @ August 11, 2011 at 12:40 pm
    Definitely out of line for Mr. Price to shove Brett Shipp, but Shipp’s such a total d****ebag, I’ll let it slide this once.

  6. amused @ August 12, 2011 at 7:16 am
    What was JWP topic for the speech?

    Possibly how all you white people should go to hell.

  7. kmom @ August 12, 2011 at 12:40 pm
    I shouldn’t type when I’ve been out in the heat too long, makes me even crankier. Brett is a nice guy, my husband went to school with him and we think he’s a nice guy. I do not like his journalism style, he ambushes people when it’s not necessary and he’s made innocent people look guilty because of it. So – Brett= nice guy, Mr. Shipp = skeezy reporter. Sometimes. JWP was hugely out of line here, but it seems Mr. Shipp got exactly what he was looking for, I’m sure there were high fives all around back in the newsroom.

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