The St. Augustine Record in 1995 got laughs from Jay Leno, when it carried a front page headline: "100 Years of Pubic Service."
That "Pubic Service" edition is a collector's item.
In a January 19, 2014 column, St. Augustine Record Publisher Delinda Fogel has invited readers to volunteer to look for typographical errors a few hours each week. The Prize: perhaps a free dinner for the ones finding the most typographical errors.
Cute.
Clever.
Put up or shut up, complaining readers: work for free!
I have a better idea:
Please use new revenue from subscription price increases and the new paywall to kindly provide raises, pay a living wage, provide pensions and benefits.
Kindly comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act (no unpaid interns doing journalist work), and promote some of your longtime reporters to columnists.
Otherwise, expect the Newspaper Guild to come organize your entire newsroom.
Fair Labor Standards: it's the American Way.
If you really want fair working conditions you are going to have to first ask why the present city leaders — “our new leaders who now listen” — are not only not calling for fair working conditions, but instead are aiding and abetting unfair working conditions with their silence and maintenance of the corrupt status quo.
ReplyDeleteSo; in the spirit of “advanced citizenship”, I herewith “continue to ask questions and make disclosures, demand answers and expect democracy.”
Where are the present city official movers and shakers on our many current Civil Rights violations, specifically those of Michelle O’Connell? Why are these individuals that you now color as ‘pillars’ of the community so silent?
Where is the outrage?
Where is the call for equality?
Where is the call for honesty?
Where is the call for justice?
Could it be that their past collusion with David Shoar in the on going pattern and practice of usurping the ‘Rule of law’ for Civil Rights violations that benefited their wealthy merchant class runs so deep that they must now bite their tongues when he so egregiously takes the law into his own hands and acts as God, judge and jury for his cop buddies?
I believe that Jeremy Banks is a murderer and that David Shoar clearly obstructed justice. But even those with a TV propaganda instilled bias of rogue cop love will admit that there is a rotten smell here and at a minimum we should have impanelled a grand jury long ago. Why not? Why The stonewall? Why the cowardly silence?
I ask again. Why the cowardly silence; Joe Boles, Nancy Sikes-Cline, Donald Crichlow, Leanna Freeman, Roxanne Horvath, John P. Regan, Timothy A Burchfield, et.al.?
Why are you ALL so silent?
Is this about A Cover Up?
Systemic Corruption?
Misogyny?
Arrogance?
Rogue Cops?
Collusion?
Murder?
Conspiracy?
Blackmail?
Fear Mongering?
Labor And Price Fixing?
Hijacked Government?
Theft Of The Public Commons?
Social Collapse?
Class War?
Or is it about All Of Them?
And maybe you are all so silent because in reality you are not pillars of the community, maybe in reality you really are all killers of the community...
The world is watching, the audience will grow ever larger...
What ever happened to moral self examination?