Pacifica Tribune/Letters-to-the-editor, 5/2/12. "Pacifica coverage" by Robert Hutchinson.
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I agree with Lionel's letter last week asking why the Trib doesn't report on Council and budget meetings.
My subscription is up and I won't be renewing unless they start actually reporting and not being a puppet of the city or the unions or whomever."
Reference - Lionel Emde's letter-to-the-editor, "News blackout" 4/25/12.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
12 comments:
since you wont be renewing your subscription to the Tribune lets hope you won't be sending in letters to the editor and spare us of your insipid and idiotic points of view.
"..insipid and idiotic points of view."
From one Anonymous to another, fair comments and issue reporting are needed. Comments such as yours above without description are shall we say "idiotic" and unfair.
Give-up subscription to the Tribune? FMV never. The Tribune is our treasured community print newspaper, the founding communication news for this city. But, does the Tribune adequately investigate issues in this polarized community? Not usually. Hence, by default is the Tribune a tool for city council and others who have ruined the economy of this city? FMV, yes it is.
Remember Robert Hutchinson submitted his prior letter-to-the-editor 3x before it was printed. And, he is not the only concerned citizen to become frustrated with the Tribune policy. (The other side of that is the Tribune is caught in the crosshairs trying to deliver a community service).
Signed: Kathy Meeh.
The Tribune is not an investigative reporting powerhouse with deep pockets and regional readership. It's a once-a-week community newspaper and it's very vulnerable to public opinion and economic pressure. They need every advertising and subscription dollar they can get from this nutjob of a town. Discretion may really be the better part of valor.
Want change? Find and actively support good candidates and Vote!
Who knows why it took 3 tries to get the letter printed? Anybody ask the editor?
If people don't call the Trib and express their viewpoints as to what should be covered, it won't be.
Limited resources are just that, they should be directed toward important stories such as local government.
Not everyone wants more local politics and government in the Tribune. Many readers want the soft news like kid's sports, school stuff, obits, culture and social. Each to his own.
I suggest anyone unsatisfied with the Tribune’s content submit their own articles to the paper. If the Trib publishes Frank Cimo, who wouldn’t they publish? Write an article that’s fair and factual and it may run as a “news” story. A piece that clearly advocates a certain course or opinion can run as a “My Turn” column. In either case, your position is greatly strengthened by avoiding such obviously faulty leaps of logic as, “But they must have gotten the signal to nix controversial stories because since then there’s been nothing.” I can remember my grandfather telling my 4-year-old sister and myself that the 18-inch-high strip of chicken wire he strung around his little vegetable garden was an “elephant fence”, and to prove it he noted, “You don’t see any elephants in there, do you?”
Paul Slavin
They must teach that one at Grandpa school. Mine used the same story. Thanks for the memory!
"I suggest anyone unsatisfied with the Tribune’s content submit their own articles to the paper."
That's fine as far as it goes, it's important to have the community's members speaking up, but it's also important that the paper report the news. Information organized and presented by reporters is all-important to the community's understanding of what its city government (among other things) is doing.
And Mr. Emde, just how many "reporters" do you think the Trib employs?
You can knock yourself out insisting that pigs ought to fly. It won't make them grow wings.
"...it's also important that the paper report the news. ...all-important to the community's understanding of what its city government (among other things) is doing." (Lionel Emde, 5/9/12, 9:45 pm).
Spot-on!!! Part of the long-term problem in this city seems to be one of understanding issue, including economic strategy, outcome and consequences. Then there is the ongoing city managed public relations, aka: "shovel the dirt under the carpet". Over time such managed information becomes revisionist history.
Last night at the city council budget meeting, Mayor Pete DeJarnatt again managed the message. What he called a "tar ball spill" in 2008 was in reality a sewer spill, which parcel owners will be paying-off for 3 years (lawsuits), and 20 years (collection pipes). Pacifica patch article, 3/14/11. DeJarnatt said he didn't say "tar spill". Yes he did. Worse he and city council did not disclose what they knew until about 2 months later when everyone else knew. Recently according to DeJarnatt, City Council had been informed next day about the sewer spill.
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