Below, in case you missed it in Sunday's New York Times... coming on the heels of Bob Norman's
Not mentioned in the article below, what happens when a large metropolitan newspaper seems to have
consciously chosen to ignore certain cities in their news coverage area, because the people who live there are not... well, you know, from Coral Gables or Pinecrest.
And don't have Mega-Plans... or so-called Art Festivals, sponsored by foreign banks trying to drum-up business among the well-heeled with illegal off-shore schemes.
As a citizen of one of those towns that have recently been stamped terra incognita by the suits at 1 Herald Plaza, a city whose City Commission meetings have NOT been graced by a Herald reporter in well over seven months, despite all the chaos,anti-democratic hijinks and anti-Sunshine Law actions by that City Hall redoubt on U.S.-1, which continually spites its own citizens, I'm left to wonder:
"If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?..."
Yes, revenge is best served cold.
If the Miami Herald keeps going the way it is by blithely ignoring what is happening in South Florida on their watch, all the dozens of stories it could be and should be covering and investigating, though there is much that I liked about it while growing-up in South Florida, why should I miss it when it's gone?
Of late, I hardly knew it was there.
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New York Times
Editors and Publishers in a Revolving Door
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
January 18, 2009
