the open letter to the editor
i am so tired of this. i am so tired of this i'm too tired to count up the number of loco-emotive columns dedicated to whining about deval patrick and barack obama, who, last i checked, are neither from lowell nor planning to move here anytime soon.
i subscribe to what is purported to be a local paper. instead, i am forced to skip around thrice weekly a column dedicated to nothing more than a consistent rant about how much some aging and addled columnist hates a couple of black politicians so much that he can't stop blathering on about it.
if i were more invested in things, i'd count up the number of barry/devvy emotive columns compared to all the others, and i'd be willing to bet that an average like that would make albert pujols look like a minor leaguer.
seriously? is this what our subscription fees are paid to produce? for real? it's not a joke?
cuz it's seriously a joke.
i subscribe to what is purported to be a local paper. instead, i am forced to skip around thrice weekly a column dedicated to nothing more than a consistent rant about how much some aging and addled columnist hates a couple of black politicians so much that he can't stop blathering on about it.
if i were more invested in things, i'd count up the number of barry/devvy emotive columns compared to all the others, and i'd be willing to bet that an average like that would make albert pujols look like a minor leaguer.
seriously? is this what our subscription fees are paid to produce? for real? it's not a joke?
cuz it's seriously a joke.
posted by kad barma at 9:50 AM
2 Comments:
I kind of get your point about the same guy whining about the President and the Governor all the time, although I do expect the local paper to cover the whole wide world, just as I would expect the NYT to be about more than The Big Apple, if I subscribed.
When I moved here from Prince Bill County, Virginia, I was impressed that The Sun was edging out The Globe in national and international coverage.
What I don't understand is how the term "Black" enters into the equation. Politicians are politicians, regardless of color. When Attorney General Eric Holder uses the phrase "my people" when testifying before Congress I assume he is talking about ALL of us, including those of us of Angle and Saxon descent. That is what he means, isn't it?
Regards Cliff
There's "coverage", and then there's opinion. I don't mind a little state, national and international coverage. I do object to local broadsheets complaining about the toughness of their economics and charging me several hundred dollars every year to subscribe, and then wasting opinion column after opinion column on state, national and international irrelevancies. It galls me three times every week that some deserving local reporter is not being paid so that some should-be-retiree can grind his political axes.
As for "black", well, observing the relative dearth of "white" targets in the column, it does seem remarkable that 12-13% of the population can yield such a high percentage of the targets of the loco-emotive's ire.
And, seriously, it's not even a question about disagreement with the points being made, so much as the utter lack of use of pounding that political nail over and over and over and over and over still again.
I blame the publisher for paying for it and printing it more than the elderly pinhead for simply typing the angry voices he hears in his aging and addled head, but I do blame them both.
We get it. We've all long since made up our minds. Now can we use some of that space for something of actual local value and relevance?
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