Saturday, February 18, 2006

An open letter to The Wellsville Reporter

While the Daily Reporter does an outstanding job of reporting on local and area news that keeps us up to date with what is going on hereabout, I do have one long standing gripe. Over the last few years the editorial cartoons published are really heavy left, often to the point of hateful. In fact the last few Cheney toons have really crossed the line from satirical humor to expressing outright hate for a fine man. I wrote to the paper about my concerns last year and while they did not publish my letter I was able to talk with John. I was told that there were very few ed-toons available from the only MSM (read "we hate Bush") souce they used so they printed what was available. Therefore, I gave them some alternative sources for conservative ed-toons to balance the page and while things did get a little better for a while, the situation is now worse than it ever was.

Over the last few months I have again been tracking the ed-toons and they are running 10 to 1 anti-administration. Now I know that the paper's readership does not run 10 to 1 in the "we hate the President" camp, it's probably closer to a 4 to 6 ratio. I also know that there is a debate in journalism as to whether the editorial page is to reflect readership opinion or drive readership opinion and above all I understand that it is their editorial page. However, there should be at least a reasonable attempt to reflect the views of those of us that don’t hate our President (and Vice President) but believe him to be an honorable man that is doing the right thing. I hope that the Reporter will take these thoughts to heart and bring a bit of balance back to the paper.

I am again tracking the ed-toons and will be posting the results here from time to time.

This post was updated February 20, 2006

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Welcome to The Wellsville Blogspot!

Welcome to the all new Wellsville Blogspot. This is where Wellsville folks can post opinions on anything Wellsville (and area).

  • Have a position on the new Walmart (pro or con?)
  • Is our local paper doing a good job?
  • How about the dissolution of the village?
  • What can we do about our high real estate taxes?

All opinions are welcome and all comments too. The only two rules are;

  1. Keep it clean, no profanity allowed.
  2. Be nice. While strong opinions are welcome, abusive posts are not.

Now let's all have some fun.

If you would like to be able to post as a contributor just drop me an email and I will post you back with the invite link to sign up. Anyone can comment to contributor posts.