Breaking a world record for torpor, the Record finally reported today the Jacksonville Jaguars' generous gift of free admission to the Willie Galimore pool -- six days after the pool opened and the decision was announced and after the Memorial Day weekend. See post immediately below, and the UPDATE appended to it.
The tatterdemalion Record suffers from bad morale, slashed news room budgets, and reduced newspaper space for news (called "the news hole" in the journalism business).
The Record's page one, six column banner headline yesterday -- on a Jacksonville Jaguars NFL team player's alleged bar kerfuffle Sunday -- stands in stark and marked contrast to the tiny one column headline on today's page one story about last Friday's re-opening of Lincolnville's Willie Galimore pool.
Let's see.
So far, the score is:
May 26 Jaguar Misdemeanor Charge in Alleged Bar Kerfuffle 6 column inch headline
May 24 Jaguar's Galimore Free Admission Pool Promise 1 column inch headline, six days later
What priorities these alleged news reporters have at the St. Augustine WRecKord.
Thus, the box score is Jaguar Kerfuffle 6, Jaguars Caring 1.
The Record would rather report wrecks and kerfuffles than actual news of improvements in our city, including a string of victories for Equality and Environmental Justice.
The Record is notable for its dearth of coverage of the GLBT nondiscrimination provisions passed by the cities of St. Augustine (2012) and St. Augusine Beach (2013), Anastasia Mosquito Contrel (2009), and by St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar.
The Record's new publisher should hold "Lessons Learned" meetings about the Record's insensitivity.
The Record should then repent of its insensitivity and atone, e.g., by allowing reporters to report the news without fear or favor, and by finally reporting what it failed to report during 1963-64 concerning Jim Crow segregation and Civil Rights demonstrations -- please see May 29th blog post, below:
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