| Imperial_News_Network | Date: Tuesday, 18 Sep 2012, 9:35 PM | Message # 1 |
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Fowlkes Dead: INN Stands By its Reporting
Imperial Center — Despite criticism from well-known peddlers of anti-Imperial innuendo, the Imperial News Network stands by its reporting on the apparent death of Senator Tremaine Fowlkes, who last week was seen plummeting to his death from a balcony of the Telosian embassy on Imperial Center. INN reported the facts of the story without the baseless speculation of those who have criticized INN's story.
The Coruscant Journal wrote this week that INN's reporting on the Senator's death was "not credible," since the witness to the Senator's death wasn't identified in the INN story. However, it would be irresponsible to publish the identities of witnesses while law enforcement is still questioning them over the cause of death. A reputable news organization would know this.
Out of respect to the Senator's memory, INN also declined to publish additional, sordid details about the Senator that support the eyewitness account of his drunken altercation with a Thakwaash prostitute on the balcony of the Telosian embassy. For instance, the Senator's former company, the Loyalist Gas Mining Corporation was once audited for bad accounting practices. Investigators concluded that Senator Fowlkes was siphoning investor's money into his own pocket for use on prostitutes, it is believed.
Records show that the Senator attempted to funnel the company's funds to the Coruscant-based Center for Journalistic Integrity in an attempt to keep the story quiet. To date, only the Imperial News Network has reported on this story—not The Coruscant Journal, which called for scrutiny of the INN's reporting when such scrutiny would be more gainfully directed at the Journal's own editorial board.
There is good reason to conclude that Senator Fowlkes is dead. Neither the testimony of the Senator's distraught would-be widow—especially in light of the Senator's widely-rumored dalliances with Senator Cerra of Garos IV—nor unsubstantiated "sightings" of the Senator from the Core Worlds to the Outer Rim are reason enough to believe otherwise. The reader will recall reported "sightings" of Separatist leader Count Dooku in the months and even years since his death. Dead men may live on in the fevered imaginations of the public, but they're not alive.
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