He is no woelk. That is a fact.
Hell, he's not even a Henderson. Ringo's work doesn't rise to the level of professionalism and quality seen in the average high school newspaper.
He can't help that he's not that bright and easily led/misled. Can't blame someone for the limits of their genetics. But he's lazy on top of that. You can't be both dumb and lazy. Worse yet, at the time of the Embree firing he added bitterness to that mix. Now he's an annoying little man that everyone would ignore and avoid if he didn't have the platform of working for the local paper.