to accommodate Ed Pawlowski. The hiring was snuck into a long list of minor personnel changes, and unnoticed by the school directors. Two days later, I broke the story that the City was buying up the arena block, and using a straw buyer to boot. As I worked the Marin story, it would come to include an email exchange between myself and Zahorchak, acknowledging the hire, and a public statement by school director Zimmerman. Zimmerman's note confirmed the subterfuge used by Zahorchak. On April 19, Morning Call caught up on my stories about Joyce Marin and also the Arena. Education reporter Steve Esack wrote about the Marin hire, crediting this blog. His editor, Mike Miorelli, changed "molovinsky on allentown" to "local blogger". Needless to say, I didn't take that well. I wrote a post criticizing Miorelli for failing to give proper attribution. Yesterday, the School Administration announced that Marin's position was eliminated. An article in today's Morning Call mentions the controversy and Zimmerman, but not this blog. Although it's my normal practice to link to Morning Call stories I refer to, and credit the reporter, I'll skip that courtesy today.
UPDATE: Several days ago I noticed that my November post, entitled Mayo Can't Add, which took the new superintendent to task for not undoing some of Zahorchak's manipulations, was getting multiple views. Yesterday, Mayo announced the elimination of some new positions created by Zahorchak. Regardless of what factors influenced Mr. Mayo, I congratulate him for tightening up the ship.
above reprinted from April of 2012
ADDENDUM MAY 13, 2024:Miorelli's dislike of me only increased over the years. A few years ago when it was revealed on my facebook group that the remaining photographic archives were discarded when the paper sold the building to J.B. Reilly, Miorelli really blew his top. Name calling and threats of a lawsuit came my way. Although Miorelli has retired, his underlings who remained, honor him by rejecting my letters to the editor. I no longer search for news, and seldom use anything that still comes my way anyway. I still champion for the traditional park system and against local delusion about the NIZ. While I continue to be resented by the new establishment, I remain on their morning read list.
My current relationship is similar. My home is still a subscriber but I merely breeze through reading the Morning Scammer on the internet. I no longer find the paper trustworthy for much beyond the obituaries, the calendar of events, the weather report, etc.
ReplyDeleteThis newspaper is FAR too Left-leaning and DEI-obsessed. What small amount of written pieces remain come across as Democrat propaganda and useless tabloid junk. My spouse still enjoys sitting down with it, however.
How can I embrace this newspaper anymore? The national opinion pieces, and even our local Bill White are far off the mark when it comes to the political realities I see. I resent being duped and work hard to avoid that.
What this community really needs is more trustworthy information.
I could enjoy an unbiased recording of daily life in our community with less attempt at mind control and censorship of relevant and factual events we see unfolding each day.
Zahorchak today is a distant memory. One of a long line of superintendents of the ASD that have come and gone, with no real lasting legacy except perhaps, his name on a plaque somewhere of all ASD superintendents over the years.
ReplyDeleteThe Morning Call these days is really a virtual paper being printed on a press somewhere in another state, its editor perhaps in another, and a small staff working from home offices in second bedrooms of apartments. The staff moves a lot and doesn't really want to buy homes and live in Allentown, TMC is simply a stepping stone to a better job elsewhere. Perhaps they live in Reillytown, as they seem to like it so much.
Only the rocks live forever, or in Allentown's case, the structures on Hamilton Street .... until the next NIZ in a few decades from now...
Permanence, of course, is relative in the new Allentown.
This is part of the reason the MC is failing. It provides almost nothing that can’t be found elsewhere, and found through sources that do a much better job. The internet has many faults, for sure. But, judicious use of the internet can lead to trustworthy information on most topics. Citizens don’t have to be misled and surely shouldn’t need to pay as much to receive it.
ReplyDeleteIs it any wonder our current government is trying so hard to control free speech and filter what information is out there? Google is “in on it,” by the way.