While regrettable that a public forum has been lost to Lancaster, and heaven knows Lancaster is in desperate need of more venues devoted to the sharing of differing ideas and ‘truths’, I feel Lancaster would be better served by the closing of the Lancaster Newspaper itself.
In recent years LNP has seeming become nothing more than a subscription/ad funded public relations department for other members of their ‘club’, such as The High Group, Lancaster General, and Franklin and Marshall College to name a few.
In one recent instance, a LNP reporter spent two days interviewing a respected attorney and was provided supporting documentation obtained from Right-To-Know requests concerning questionable practices involving a large local construction project, and yet the resulting article(s) either mentioned nothing that was offered or worse, spun the information 180 degrees to make the participants appear as to have been community heroes. What was lost was public awareness to questionable practices affecting tax dollars of Lancaster residents. This one act alone, in my opinion, should be cause enough to revoke LNP’s credible newsworthiness.
Lancaster would be much better served with an organization such as NewsLanc taking over or at least on equal footing. I respect NewsLanc’s desire to supplement rather than replace. However, the continuation of Lancaster Newspaper’s ‘monopoly’ and NewsLanc‘s stance as a minor player is the true loss for Lancaster’s community.
