In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
Friday, January 23, 2015
Republican Rag Raga
St. Augustine Record not carrying stories about the scandal of Governor RICHARD LYNN SCOTT illegally firing FDLE Director Gerald Bailey without concurrence or vote by Cabinet? Same viewspaper that never reported conviction of BERNARD KERIK, former NYC Police Commissioner under Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI? Same viewspaper that won't cover $60 million fraud settlement against RPM International, former corporation of County COmmission Chairman JOHN H. "JAY" MORRIS? Same viewspaper that covered up the September 2, 2010 Michelle O'Connell case, covered by The New York Times, PBS Frontline, Dateline NBC, Good Morning America and Dr. Phil? Same viewspaper that omits local news and views critical of misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, waste, fraud, abuse, flummery, dupery, nincompoopery and mismanagement by local governments while it regularly runs retired CIA Operations hater's hate-Israel columns (while claiming to publish only locals' local-issues columns)? Same viewpaper that runs ANN COULTER's ranting cant every Monday morning? Same viewspaper that refused to cover Mayor JOSEPH LESTER BOLES, Jr. and City Manager WILLIAM BRUCE HARRIS scandals and blandly supported "Business As Usual" (its trite trope du jour). Same viewspaper that was the only US newspaper not to have President Barack Obama's election on page one in 2008?
The Morris Corp. cannot/won't keep dumping $$$ into this loser of a paper. HOW can it afford to?
ReplyDeleteNo, we are on our way to no local newspaper, which given the state of The Record won't be a bad thing.
I remember when The Record had content and professionalism. Thanks, Pete Ellis.