Comments on: Our first month of comments… http://blogs.eagletribune.com/inthenews/2008/05/20/our-first-month-of-comments/ Just another Blogs.eagletribune.com weblog Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: raymond grimes http://blogs.eagletribune.com/inthenews/2008/05/20/our-first-month-of-comments/#comment-157 raymond grimes Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:04:12 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/inthenews/2008/05/20/our-first-month-of-comments/#comment-157 It is very true. the Salem news has abandoned all prtense of reporting the news and has adopted a policy of creating the news. you are apparently employing inexperienced reports and printing there opinios. As an example I offer the Merry Case where some reporter wrote how that investigation was mishandled, obviously that reporter must have tremendous experience and training in accident reconstruction and polic procedures, or he didaant know what he was talking about and the Salem News with there long standing bias againest the police officers was stupid enough to print it as FACT. I have always believed that a newspaper should print the news, after the reports were confirmed. not to make the news and print rumors and innuendo. It is very true. the Salem news has abandoned all prtense of reporting the news and has adopted a policy of creating the news.
you are apparently employing inexperienced reports and printing there opinios.
As an example I offer the Merry Case where some reporter wrote how that investigation was mishandled,
obviously that reporter must have tremendous experience and training in accident reconstruction and polic procedures, or he didaant know what he was talking about and the Salem News with there long standing bias againest the police officers was stupid enough to print it as FACT.
I have always believed that a newspaper should print
the news, after the reports were confirmed. not to make the news and print rumors and innuendo.

]]> By: Leather_City http://blogs.eagletribune.com/inthenews/2008/05/20/our-first-month-of-comments/#comment-137 Leather_City Fri, 23 May 2008 17:08:09 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/inthenews/2008/05/20/our-first-month-of-comments/#comment-137 I find it very sad that The Salem News is now not only editorializing in the news sections, but it is also creating its own news as well. I am referring to the numerous stories about Peabody Fire Fighter Brophy. For the record, I am not in favor of his reinstatement nor am I pleased in the judgments found in his favor... but that is how our courts work at times. What is disturbing is The Salem News coverage of this case. The News has had a consistent and constant attitude of disdain toward this man. From your chosen nickname of "the dozing dispatcher" to your incomplete listing of the facts in the case (omitting those in favor of Brophy) and even the republishing (on-line at least) of the private letter between Fire Chief Pasdon, Mayor Bonfanti and Brophy. For heavens sake... those were personnel file materials... they should NOT have been available via the Freedom of Information Act... and the speed in which you received then, and published them, is quite unprecedented in my opinion. All of this points toward serious BIAS against this rather unpopular character. This all seems rather sad coming from The Salem News. I wish I could say that I had expected more from The News... but alas, I have grown to expect this type of anti-government, anti-union, pro-business attitude from your opinion pages... AND your news coverage. I find it very sad that The Salem News is now not only editorializing in the news sections, but it is also creating its own news as well.

I am referring to the numerous stories about Peabody Fire Fighter Brophy.

For the record, I am not in favor of his reinstatement nor am I pleased in the judgments found in his favor… but that is how our courts work at times.

What is disturbing is The Salem News coverage of this case. The News has had a consistent and constant attitude of disdain toward this man. From your chosen nickname of “the dozing dispatcher” to your incomplete listing of the facts in the case (omitting those in favor of Brophy) and even the republishing (on-line at least) of the private letter between Fire Chief Pasdon, Mayor Bonfanti and Brophy.

For heavens sake… those were personnel file materials… they should NOT have been available via the Freedom of Information Act… and the speed in which you received then, and published them, is quite unprecedented in my opinion.

All of this points toward serious BIAS against this rather unpopular character.

This all seems rather sad coming from The Salem News. I wish I could say that I had expected more from The News… but alas, I have grown to expect this type of anti-government, anti-union, pro-business attitude from your opinion pages… AND your news coverage.

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