{"id":1898,"date":"2011-08-10T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-04-26T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T16:21:23","slug":"editorial-peninsula-readers-need-daily-newspaper-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/editorial-peninsula-readers-need-daily-newspaper-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: Peninsula Readers Need Daily Newspaper Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The daily Herald newspaper has gone so far off the deep end, abandoning their professional responsibility to Monterey Peninsula<\/strong> readers – that we need a whole new newspaper of record. A newspaper that explicitly refuses to hire such horrible anti-public interest staff as the Herald’s letters editor (Calkins)<\/a> or their news manager (Livernois)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Herald reporting has gotten so bad, covers so few important local stories (often only 2-4 local stories a day, and they haven’t attended or reported on our Water District<\/strong> meetings in years), and biases those that it does cover<\/a> — it has ceased to be a newspaper. It has now become the Monterey County Daily Advertiser’s Puppet.<\/p>\n

One example: For 9 years the Herald has refused to report so much as a word (let alone a single declarative sentence) on the most important solution to our water problem – our own Water Management District’s “Right-sized” desalination solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then today their editorial (1) admits the insanely expensive water project they championed to the exclusion of all other solutions – is probably dead<\/a>. <\/p>\n

However, instead of mentioning the existing Water Management District, who we vote for, and their solutions — they propose making a whole new government agency – wholly ignoring that our existing water agency is already solving the problem.<\/p>\n

I recently predicted the Herald would be out of business soon. Now I may just dance when they are out of business. And may their cynical grumpy old men be replaced with a responsible news team that actually cares about our Peninsula community.<\/p>\n

Keep your eyes on the PG Hometown Bulletin. They are trying hard.<\/p>\n

Update 2014: This was written before the PG Hometown Bulletin was “sold” to the Cedar Street Times<\/strong> (they are being sued for refusing to pay the former publisher for it) which is even worse at censoring stories and letters to the editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

References:
\n“Editorial: Ratepayers need water representation<\/a>”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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