If I have succeeded in drawing you in with this teaser headline, allow me to explain. Today's local paper had two story titles which drew my attention. One said that the owner of the newest apartments in Allentown was taking deposits, and the other said that the paper's publisher was moving on to another assignment, with The New York Daily News. In my mind both of these stories are interwoven.
Needless to say that the newest apartment owner is J.B. Reilly. Before my life as a blogger, I was a property manager in Allentown. Myself and my counterparts had to spend $thousands advertising our apartments with the Morning Call. However, we were not the current landlord of the Morning Call building, as is Reilly.
Although we have never met, over the last few years Robert York and I developed a rapport of sorts. I would complain to him about editorial policy, mainly repressing my submissions about sacred cows and cronyism. He in turn would express concern about what he felt were unfair complaints about the paper on this blog.
Neither of our replacements have been announced.
MM, the moronic gagickle and itz reporterz has been the local used car sales people for many years now. The digital age has usher out this hard copy type of reporting. One could even go to the Allentown library in the microfiche to do research and see the facts that have been limited as well as edited out with hole pages missing from the conteXtZ as was used at fed eds trial by the diversionist.
ReplyDeleteLets face it, JB Reilly is in the game for money. And I don't blame him. His marketing directly focuses on young urban youths with money; not below the poverty line low income people who live in substandard conditions and bring in their associated lifestyles. Therefore, gentrification is the only answer to this problem.
ReplyDeleteThe morning-call is a paper on its way out and JB is frothing at the mouth for future development; not urban renewal as we know it.
Mr. York must feel like the new captain of the Titanic. A once great tabloid newspaper, which millions of New Yorkers relied on for over a hundred years, became a liberal rag whose target audience can't even read...at least in English. Sad.
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