Silence From the JG Is Very Telling Isn’t It?
Posted by Jeff Pruitt - 5/16/08 @ 12:27 pm - Filed Under Uncategorized
As readers here know the county council had a public hearing yesterday to discuss the wasteful $55 million Maplecrest Extension project among other items. Although if you only read the Journal Gazette then you wouldn’t even know this discussion took place. They had no story about yesterday’s county council meeting whatsoever.
Now I’m no conspiracy theorist but at some point you have to question what’s going on over there. This is a massive project proposed by the county commissioners and the county council spent a significant amount of time grilling them and the authors of their economic impact study. Yet the JG just happens to decide that’s not newsworthy?
Just for fun here’s a few other storys the JG did decide were newsworthy:
- An Orland lawsuit was settled for $5k
- 2 People were arrested for drugs
- Construction continues at the children’s zoo
- A check forger got 2 years in the slammer
You get the point.
It certainly appears that the editorial board is unduly influencing the reporters on this subject as it’s unbelievable that a reporter could sit through that meeting and not write anything about the Maplecrest Extension discussion. I would suggest readers turn their attention away from the JG and towards the News Sentinel’s Kevin Leininger as he appears to be doing his job.
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I’ve canceled my JG subscription before, but then I take it again because they have the best funny page. No, I don’t mean the editorial page, I mean the comics. No, not the editorial writers, I mean the cartoons, like Mr Boffo. No not Tracy Warner.. oh hell, you know what I mean.
What is newsworthy? Polar bears are now on the endangered list. That was front page importance. And then the evening paper had the same news on the front page with the very same pictures that the morning paper had used. Apparently, both are trying to save money. Especially don’t report local news. No expense for reporters.
Evert,
You can find reprints of comics online.
Yes, oh yes. I found a lot of detail about Maplecrest in the Journal. Why this $60 million dollar, taxpayer funded project, based on a $30,000 irrelevant study was covered in much detail in the Journal. The reporting was amazingly in touch with the citizenry. It is soo clear to me that they do “care” about any taxpayer in Fort Wayne. The country needs more newspapers like Tracey Warners! Hip hip hooray and God Bless America! Excuse me while I go take some sarcasma medication to deal with this problem of mine spewing out a load of crap like that. Sorry, I just couldn’t help myself, been working with politicians too long but I just wanted to get the crap out there before someone else said it.