Dear Somerville Journal

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Before posting a story giving credit where none is due, please check your sources.

While we appreciate the coverage and the sentiment behind your article on Veteran's Day,

The City Did Not Hold This Event. The Post itself did and paid for everything out of its own pocket.

I know that the commander of The Post made attempts to contact your offices yesterday to clear this up, but I also wanted to set the record straight.

Thank you very much.

::EDIT:: For those pointing out the quality of the article in question, my S/O just noted that..."A severely ADHD rabbit could have written it better"

IAWTS 100%.

Comments

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Oh God. CNC just recently purchased the Hanscom Newspaper (they do a weekly). They're...well...not great. And that's being nice.

It really makes me sad to know that almost none of the local papers (including the Globe and I believe the Herald) are locally owned.

[ron_newman]

The Herald is locally owned, as are the Phoenix and (I think) the Weekly Dig. I did not know that Hanscom had a newspaper.

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

All DOD installations do. Even in deployed locations, military Public Affairs offices try and tend to put out either installation newlsetters or, in the case of some that are more permanent, newspapers.

I couldn't remember if the Herald had been sold...but I thought I had heard some rumor of its pending sale at some point.

I don't read the Phoenix when it comes to news - I only grab it for club/events listings. I find their news to be as horrifically biased as the Herald's, if not worse.

As to the Dig, I have never actually read a copy!

[ron_newman]

If the base newspaper is supposed to be a house organ (from the Public Affairs office), how can it be sold to a private company?

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Well, it doesn't have to be. Overseas, it is simply due to location.

Stateside, the PA Office still writes all of the content, but ownership can be transferred elsewhere.

Basically, everything published in the paper here is for public knowledge anyway and is not sensitive, for official use only or anything like that.

I believe it was a money issue that drove them to sell it.