Current and former employees of The Morning Call are circulating a petition to protect the paper from a hedge fund that buys newspapers. The petition states that;
THE ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL HAS BEEN OUR REGION’S SOURCE OF LOCAL NEWS AND THE WATCHDOG THAT KEEPS GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS ACCOUNTABLE.
While I certainly hope that the Morning Call stays in business, and I appreciate the local articles and news they report, they overstate their role in keeping government and corporations accountable.
Currently they are running an opinion piece criticizing Easton's Columbus statue, even calling it a public health hazard for minorities, because of its infrastructure carbon footprint. They include no less than 16 photos with the nonsense piece of woke tripe. Meanwhile, their opinion page uses the same cast of contributors year in and year out, and routinely rejects material questioning the status quo, or their selected, protected sacred cows.
Recently, the CEO of one of the largest institutions in the Lehigh Valley was refused space on their opinion page, and had to sent a private letter to the community. They refuse to print my exposé on South Whitehall's conspiracy to demolish Wehr's Dam, despite the voter's referendum to save it. They were a decade behind on Pawlowski's shenanigans, and never scrutinize their current landlord, City Center Reality. They are more of a lapdog, that dreams it's a watchdog.
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What's to miss? This paper left us long ago.
ReplyDeleteThey failed for years to investigate the obvious pay to play schemes of our former mayor Ed Pawlowski. Ed is now a convicted felon serving a 14 year prison term no thanks to them. By this negligence of duty and absolute abandonment of journalistic integrity they ruined Allentown. They continue to publish puff pieces on Allentown's incompetent self servers such as Ce-Ce Gerlach. Would Allentown be worse off without them? Frankly that is hard to imagine.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Allentown is ruined. By any measure it thrived under Ed. And there are lots of characters convicted of far worse crimes running loose in Washington right now. The MC can fold or not. Don't care. Like that wretched strawberry pie at Hess's. Although it was the paper we local kids learned journalism from back in the last century.
DeleteNice to see a return to Anonymous comments. I refuse to participate in anything related to Google due to its political censorship.
ReplyDeleteThe Morning Call has been a huge disappointment for years. Just not a place for trustworthy information. Much too ‘woke’ to the point of silliness, and not nearly enough local coverage.
I hope the paper IS sold. It might remain a liberal rag, but a fresh approach to deception would be interesting. Maybe even gain less foreign outsourcing of customer service.
The paper is not heading in the right direction. In fact, it's getting worse, for all the reasons - and more - in the original post.
ReplyDeleteThink about it - our local paper has aligned itself with corruption (Pawlowski), those willing to demolish our parks and history (Wehr's Dam), and the current progressive, Democrat-funded unrest throughout the country.
That's not a paper I want to see survive. I have long ago cancelled my subscription, and advocate a boycott of any business that advertises in the Call. They are part of the problem.
The sale could be a good thing, and force a much needed house-cleaning at the newspaper. Or it could shutter its doors, which I also view as a positive development. As MM points out, the Call isn't serving their community now, and obviously has no intention of doing so.
Morning Call has been a liberal rag for years, that's why nobody is buying it.
ReplyDeleteThe Morning Call has another story glorifying Promise Neighborhood and the good deeds being done by the gangs. We have become Newark....
ReplyDeleteBingo...The Street Gangs Are Here To Benifit The Public...
ReplyDeleteMost of there puff pieces ain't good enough to use as doggy dodo collection paper!
ReplyDeleteIt’s hard to imagine that a company that has taken over the Reading Eagle, Pottstown Mercury, etc., and laid off much of their editorial staff would do much good owning the Morning Call. There won’t be many reporters left if one of the two bidders for the Tribune organization are successful.
ReplyDeleteThe Express-Times has some good staff but they can’t cover all of the public meetings in their coverage area any more than the MC. Bring on local ownership. Or if not immediately local, maybe the Philadelphia newspaper holding company, an nonprofit, could buy it. At least the paper would be printed in Pennsylvania instead of NJ.
Allentown is doomed!
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