The Morning Call never really did investigative reporting, because more often than not they were part and parcel of the shenanigans.
The Morning Call owner/publisher was an owner of Park & Shop. When shopping went suburban, the Allentown Parking Authority was formed to bail the publisher out from all the lots.
When the NIZ was formed, the Morning Call building was included, even though they were on the wrong side of the street. A former reporter who keep writing one glowing article after another about how successful the NIZ was, is now formally writing public relations for the local development agency. Yesterday I drove down Hamilton Street at 12:30 PM. Although offices are scaled back because of Covid-19, I only saw three people between 10th and 6th Streets. Hamilton Street is truly a dead zone.
The paper was missing in action for over a decade on Pawlowski's misdeeds. Only after the indictment did they wake up on that topic.
Bill White may know about chocolate cake recipes, but his recollections about the Morning Call are fudge.
Maybe Bill White needs to take off the rose colored glasses and start wearing clear glasses.
ReplyDeleteBill White was part of the problem when he worked for the paper, see no evil, hear no evil, report no evil when it came to his columns on Allentown. Now he is attempting to rewrite history. Bill White could of course prove the likes of us wrong by merely producing a single Morning Call investigative report on Ed Pawlowski's blatant pay to play schemes published before the FBI raid or any reporting that wasn't a puff piece, rah-rah article on the NIZ and those involved with it.
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