I believe that articles, especially about students, should have a positive note somewhere in them. Case in point the articles regarding HS basketball preview. If the coach could find nothing positive to say about last years team then it should not have been printed. How bad do you think many of those young men felt for having a less than successful season only to have their coach run them down? The author of the article should have pressed the coach for something, anything POSITIVE. As a parent I would have been furious with not only a coach who was so easily able to slam the athletes but also the writer of the article. As an ACHS supporter and fan I found the article embarassing and I do not have a student playing basketball. Can you imagine what type of image that left in the mind of someone who read the article on line or someone visiting our town to read that?
I'm sure this will not make the message board as The Traveler does not like to have anyone point out a fault.
My opinion is that when people start to censor what reporters of news and editors of the news can or should report, then our civil liberties are reduced to squat. This paper -- as many mainstream papers across the US -- are biased enough. Small town newspapers are probably fighting the uphill battle of trying to provide a world view when they know it's almost impossible to do so.
Why don't you write a letter to the editor refuting the story you read? Then, instead of trying to influence how reporters report, you can assert your own opinion into the equation.
