Honestly, I totally support reporting good news and tooting the horn for local accomplishments. Alas, a problem arises however if the feel good, pat everyone on the back, lets bake cookies and hand out awards at the chamber meetings comes at the expense of real analysis of local issues and hard investigative reporting.
Really, who decides what is an accomplishment? Does spending millions of taxpayer dollars on an airport terminal to subsidize out of town golfers and the Bandon Dunes qualify as an accomplishment? Does trying to bring in big corporations demanding a huge environmental footprint while ignoring local renewable resources qualify as an accomplishment? Who is on the accomplishment board of approval? Who gets to decide? The readers sure don’t.
Why hasn’t The World covered the glaring inconsistencies in Stufflebean’s bankruptcy statements? Have they queried the elections board and asked why Stufflebean failed to report his own expenditures? How are we the reader supposed to make informed decisions without a free and open press?
The World’s latest editorial tries to whitewash their cheer leading efforts for the SCDC crowd or maybe they are just making excuses for not spending any resources on real investigative journalism.
As the steward of your hometown newspaper, I think celebrating those blessings is part of my job. That’s particularly true when the country is steeped in recessionary gloom.
Of course, a good newspaper also watchdogs local government and points out community problems. Delivering tough love is a core principle for journalists.
But disputes and calamities are never a complete picture. That’s why The World has made special efforts this year to report on local accomplishments, and to play up good news when we find it.
We’ll keep doing that, even when the economy improves.
“We’ll keep doing that...” how about you start doing that?
Willful ignorance. Studied incompetence. A mask for racism and prejudice.
You know M, it’s hard to be mad at Fux Noise. They are paid millions and millions to spread propaganda for the neocons who own them.
It’s the ignorant Americans who gulp down the garbage spoon fed to them by the likes of Beck.
Wow, themguys, it is unlike you to use such restraint, come on let ’em have it with both barrels.
The sad thing is that just like Olbermann’s special comment tonight pointed out, spreading disinformation does so much harm and so little good. People who really care about the community they live in do everything they can to inform their neighbors not misinform them.
This county desperately needs a real press.
Wowsa M, thank you.
I’ve just about had it too. What a joke The World has become. I read in their own rag people are breaking their windows and threatening them quite often. Think he’d get a clue. I can’t imagine who is angrier than myself about the lack of any kind of professionalism out of what Clark still calls a newspaper.
Yup, good times are here again in Clarks’ World. Oysters and good friends abound. You’d think he’d get tired of gob-smacking the only activist in the county who has stood up to his Corporate Pimps.
Doing his darndest to discredit Jody, going so far as to have his toady call her and ask HOW she got to SF ! What a chicken shit, can’t even do his own fishing. Why would he give a damn? It sure wasn’t on a Bandon Dune corporate jet now was it Clark?
What a wanker masquerading as a ‘news’ man.
The World has become nothing but an advertising flyer.
I can just see Jon Barton lighting Clarks’ cigaret, with ORC waiting their turn.
Corporate whores, doing the bidding of the Big Guys. How sad.
I’ve already been told he won’t print my comments if I call him a pimp for SCDC. I say if yer gonna dance, ya gotta pay the fiddler.
He signs his name to it, he owns it.