In response to the January 25th editorial “Job opening ignored”, it is both shameful and predictable that the NewsLanc.com job has not been wholly inquired by Lancaster County reporter applicants.
You see (and applicants– don’t due to myopia) that NewsLanc.com takes on the strong entities of this county such as ‘The Big Five’ — The Lancaster Newspapers, Franklin & Marshall, Lancaster General Hospital, The Fulton Bank and The High Group. And at the same time, NewsLanc.com supports the alternative path of covering news much to the chagrin of these county companies and the principles that run these organizations.
Potential applicants are not seeking employment with NewsLanc.com opportunities out of fear of these entities, but also out of unsuredness and trepidation of their respective economic futures. Lancaster County is a small, gossip-ridden county. And for that purpose, any individual who affronts the Big Five and the self-serving thinking of the county powers will surely be ostracized and may I see ‘blackballed’ from future conventional news reporting job employment opportunities.
As an everyday reader of NewsLanc.com, I greatly appreciate the alternative news approach to Lancaster County as opposed to the calculated coverage offered by Lancaster Newspapers. But alas, I am not journalistically-trained and I read NewsLanc.com everyday, purely as a devotee, in anonymity.
To be a reporter for such an alternative news source demands individuals who not only seek to publish truthful articles that offer an alternative approach to the powers of the county, but also individuals who put their cogent approach to reporting above their own financial securities and the fortitude to publicly signing their names to NewsLanc.com articles.
Overall, I find it starkly refreshing that NewsLanc.com is having difficulty in employing any reporters. As I would much rather read an article by a reporter who is completely devoted to alternative news coverages of Lancaster County rather than a reporter who practices ‘safe news’ and would rather report half-devoted news items that would be self-protective and further propagate the obsequious nature of organizations such as ‘The Big Five’.
To NewsLanc.com, please continue your news coverage that is pure and alternative compared to what is offered by Lancaster Newspapers. And if it possible, please wait for those reporter applicants that share your purity of soul and who aren’t afraid to print truthful, alternative news item that cover our everyday Lancaster County lives.
