You just knew it had to happen:
The Mayor returns from a much needed vacation, and The Star Press – a newspaper that recently admitted it could not “look the Mayor in the eye” due to constant libelous responses in its StoryChat features – is soliciting anger to be directed at the Mayor of Muncie. Its latest leading headline – drafted (or at least encouraged), by the notorious Rick Yencer – is “Mayor Satisfied with Snow Removal upon Return from Hawaii.”
Leading headlines are as much the problem as an uninformed, uneducated horde of bureaucrats on The Star Press’s StoryChat daily. Should it matter that the Mayor has spent her well earned vacation in the comfort of the Hawaiian islands instead of New York City? Its aim is not well disguised – it’s another misguided and editorial attempt to coax the general public into a negative, angry reaction. A negative and angry reaction creates the type of libelous StoryChat comments that The Star Press has so recently rebuked.
It’s time to end StoryChat. It’s time to end leading headlines. It’s time to stop editorializing the front page. It’s time to stop using a journalism monopoly to further divide a struggling community.
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20090128/NEWS06/90128039/1002/NEWS01
http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901250315
I’m really not the least bit surprised (although this is old news at this point- so sue me). The Star Press has an agenda, and they wear it on their sleeves. I highly dislike that newspaper. In addition to their one sided stories, they charge inexcusable prices to those who require their services.