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| Campaign season or not, I won't stop sending "Letters to the Editor" and/or "Viewpoints" to the PNJ just as I have for the last 13 years...They can print them or not. If they don't print them, for irrational, specious reasons-- that's their call. I'll simply read them into the record at our public meetings instead. 😃 |
At first they just ignored my request and submission of a Guest View editorial. Eight days went by and still--not even an acknowledgment from the Pensacola News Journal of what I had sent to them.
So I sent it to them again and asked them to consider publishing it as a retort to a very one-sided, scathingly accusatory hit-job editorial printed in the PNJ on January 12th.
The editorial they wrote on the 12th was unfair, inaccurate, pejorative, slanted, biased, incomplete, dismissive, and flippant. Not coincidentally--it was also directed squarely at the three sitting Escambia County Commissioners who are running for re-election.
Upon getting my second request, the PNJ editorial squad sent this response, below.
You have got to be kidding me.
ReplyDeleteWell, at least they put it out there for everybody to see.
In other words,
(1) You're not the candidate we're backing for D1;
(2) While it's our prerogative to churn out endless cookie-cutter CivicCon puffs, we have no interest in actual dialogue on topics crucial to the health of the County's functioning;
and
(3) Anything we don't agree with is against our ethical standards.
Got it.
--Melissa Pino
Yeah--three main reasons why they "Can't" print a dissenting opinion that is critical of their hatchet piece editorial. Save the rationale and just be honest: We have our opinion, we don't want to hear yours, and we don't agree with you and don't want our readers to hear any divergence of opinions. Plus we don't like you and never have.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
The Editorial Board of the PNJ
LOL