Coasting With The Morning Call

On Friday I took Ray O'Connell to task for taking any credit for the NIZ. I deny Allentown or anybody taking credit for the Browne/Reilly arrangement, besides those two beneficiaries. Now, let me turn my good cheer once again to The Morning Call. After giving O'Connell an editorial to crow on, they then gave Easton's Sal Panto the same privilege. Sal naturally also wrote about current and future development in Easton. Next for the limelight is Hasshan Batts from Promise Neighborhoods. I predict that Hasshan will claim that with proper funding (meaning more of our tax dollars), he could put a real dent in Allentown's crime problem.

 I understand bureaucrats preaching their gospel, I just find it sad that the Morning Call allocates their space in such an uninspired way. I have been denied an editorial on how the voter's referendum on Wehr's Dam is being subverted by South Whitehall Township to accommodate the Wildlands Conservancy. I strongly suspect that likewise, many letters with controversial views, or issues about protected sacred cows, are also filed by the paper in the waste can.

 It appears as if the paper is doggy paddling or just coasting along, hoping that the next yellow slip from corporate America doesn't have their name on it.  In recent forums on social media, the paper is being taken to task for several issues, among them delivery and content.  While we dinosaurs want a very early hard copy delivery,  those available for such tasks in today's world are not early risers.  Our complaints go somewhere overseas, where English is a third language. For the end of this bitching session, let me say that I appreciate that we still have a paper... It is something which we can no longer take for granted in this world of fast changing media.