Re: Daily Camera Dead

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 01, 2006 at 10:41:16AM -0700, Paul Tiger wrote:
> Boulder Activists,
> 
> I've been looking at the DC since we all started writing letters and I fail
> to see where they've printed anything from concerned citizens about
> elections. Vanessa Miller wrote a story about the latest debacle that seemed
> ill-informed and supportive of the clerk's staff because the detractors
> appeared to be from the black helicopter squadron.
> I noted that last week there was a letter remarking on how Clay Evans was no
> longer writing for the Camera. That might explain why my pleas to Clay for
> an editorial on the failures of DRE have gone unanswered. Apparently Clay no
> longer works for the Camera, or perhaps following the Peter Principle, he's
> been kicked upstairs. Doubt that, since he would have responded to emails.
> Clay is the one person at the Camera who has always been responsive to our
> concerns.
> 
> It is interesting that now that both the Camera and the Colorado Daily are
> owned by EW Scripps that only the Daily continues to report the news of
> Boulder.
> 
> Please don't waste too much time trying to get the Daily Camera to involve
> itself in our community. It hasn't cared in a long time. Even Sue Deans, its
> editor-in-chief says that she cannot control what her owners want her to
> publish. The Camera makes Boulder out to be heaven and a tourist attraction.
> Soon to be ruled by the neo-cons that run the Camera from the east coast.
> The same folks that pre-program the DRE for supreme authority.
> 
> Some Guy
> 

Joe P. got published on the op-ed page today. Perhaps the neo-cons believe
that his piece will encourage action to liberate Boulder as has been done
to Iraq ;-) 

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Paul E Condon           
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