Tag: Watchdog

Isn’t Winning Enough?

The Sunday News well knows how unfairly County Commissioners Dick Shellenberger and Molly Henderson were treated by the monopoly newspapers on the issue of the convention center project and the grand jury report. Yet it persists in publishing “Days left in terms of County Commissioners Shellenberger and Henderson” in each edition. The Sunday News calls […]

Bad Taste

On Nov. 30th, that bastion of public morality, the New Era, owned by the paragon of virtue the monopoly Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., (partner in the greatest rip off in Lancaster’s history) published the photo of a sad looking woman accused of offering to perform an act of prostitution for an ‘undercover’ detective who patronized a […]

Confused Priorities

The Nov. 25th Sunday News confined news of the arrest of Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, opposition leader and the foremost critic of President Vladimir Putin, to a single column on page A8 while devoting its front page almost entirely to four human interest stories of little if any news value. Readers are not […]

Waste Collection

On Nov. 14th, the Intelligencer Journal reported that a spokesman for the City’s Bureau of Solid Waste & Recycling told City Council that “waste” collection averaged 46% less per home in 2007 than in 2006. It also said a city councilman stated that it “seemed too good to be true” and praised the accomplishment. WATCHDOG: […]