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FLASH! The Cortland Standard is getting ready to seriously consider possibly getting someone to maybe think about making a call to Wal-Mart. They would have called earlier but they had a failure in their telecommunications system. (The string broke.) They say they must get confirmation from Wal-Mart about top-secret plans Wal-Mart never talks to the press about before they can report this now very old story. It appeared here first and later in the Syracuse Post Standard (A 'real' newspaper.) Let's get serious. Do they really expect Wal-Mart to confirm this or is this just a ruse to avoid doing the story? How history would have changed if Woodward and Bernstein worked at the Cortland Standard instead of the Washington Post. In cities like Cortland, with only one newspaper, it is the obligation of that paper to report the news fairly and evenly. If for whatever reason that newspaper only reports part of the news then it is no different than distorting or lying about the news. Our constitution protects the freedom of the press because a free press reporting on and keeping an eye on our leaders is what keeps and protects us from harm. When a newspaper operating with the trust of the public misuses that freedom then we all lose.
The people of
Cortland County depend on the Cortland Standard for full and
truthful information and they are not getting it. The owners
of the Cortland Standard should be ashamed of themselves for
what they are doing. It is little better than what you would
expect in some third world country. I think it is time for The
Cortland Standard to give up the pretense that it is a real
newspaper and tell its readers exactly what it is.
Frank Hogg (Making friends
all over the place.)
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