i wrote a letter to the editor of my local paper. i will be surprised if it is published being i gave a challenge to the writers, the editors and the publisher to re-establish their priorities, join the community and actually focus on covering stories that affect us all. the last 2 days in a row the "top story" has focused on OSU personnel. i am fine with these stories as a side piece, but on the front page with the big headlines? please......... there are much bigger stories to cover such as the latest fiasco with our city's largest private employer, the lack of affordable housing, the homeless adults and youth and children who roam our streets at night, the lack of living wage jobs, even the often skewed priorities of our city government.
reading our newspaper, you would believe you have stumbled upon Mayberry, USA. problem-free zone. i myself do not buy the newspaper but rather skim through it online. i cannot in good conscious support this paper financially until and unless changes are made.
it would be wonderful if a publisher came into town and decided to create a new paper, a paper that focuses on the hard hitting journalistic pieces. a paper that isn't controlled by some corporate monopoly and therefore is free to report how and what it wishes. what a dream it would be to be a part of something like that!
i wonder how one would go about finding such a person................hmmm.........
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Back in the 80s the paper was going in a great direction. Editors seemed to care and I was part of lively letters to the editor debates (allow me to show you some of them). I even convinced the editor to support a proposition to make pot legal.
Then there was a shakeup and it turned into fishwrap. Haven't bought it since.
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