Over the past week, the following five front page articles appeared, all consisting of hundred of words (one a thousand) and portraying Mayor Rick Gray in a positive and sympathetic light:
Lancaster’s Mayor Gray pushes for ‘reasonable’ gun regulations
Rendell visits Lancaster to stump for Gray
Lancaster city is financially sound
Promoter: Mayor Gray put kibosh on DMX rap concert
Lancaster mayor narrowly misses accident involving four cars on Route 283 (This stretch is actually funny.)
On the other hand, ”Smithgall takes a swing” about candidate and former mayor Charlie Smithgall did appear on an inside page. It ran 46 words.
LNP will do whatever it takes to keep their PSP puppet in place. Their self-serving ‘journalism’ has become a disgrace to the profession.
Why aren’t they challenging the police department on 16 unsolved murders?
Why aren’t they reporting how much rental space income at the convention center is going into the Marriott Hotel coffers rather than the Convention Center?
Why aren’t they investigating why no one (other than retreads) are running for mayor?
Why aren’t they reporting why there has been so little new business development in downtown Lancaster since the debut of the Convention Center?
These are all ‘local’ issues that deserve to be investigated/reported. Instead, we get a front page, elongated, semi-advertisement epistle in the Sunday News about Ernie Schreiber retiring for the second time.