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

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[somjournal.livejournal.com]

My best recollection is our repeated calls to headquarters have gone unanswered on that subject. We can get the local store owners to tell us they're closing, but as far as "why," no one has yet to respond.

I can tell you that folks in the community have speculated that the combination of poor food quality -- most mention spores on bread -- combined with the Stop & Shop down the hill must be the reason for the drop off in customers, but the store owners will not confirm that.

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

I echo ron's sentiments and thank you as well. As the OP on this issue, I can tell yout that I know on Saturday morning, the Dilboy Post Commander attempted to contact the Somerville Journal offices to set the record straight.

I told him that morning I would post to a local community to do the same.

With regards to the story on Star Market - wouldn't it have been in proper form to state that store owners will not give a reason or confirm speculation by customers as to the reason they're leaving? At least then, readers would know and understand that the questions were asked but they were not actually answered, so the story is, in fact, complete.

I tried to find this sort of e-mail to respond to on Wicked Local, but that site isn't really great.

Finally, I'd be happy to offer inexpensive freelance services to help cover Somerville. A newspaper is only as good as its reporting and I would hate to see The Journal go the way of so many other local papers around the country sinply because they sacrificed quality for cost.

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[ron_newman]

Also, if I couldn't get anyone to comment by calling as a reporter, I'd get someone else to call with the same questions, but identifying him/herself as a satisfied Star Market customer. The corporate folks might informally reply with some useful information that they wouldn't give to a reporter.

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Mm. Old time, underhanded tactics. You really are just a little bit evil, aren't you?

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[ron_newman]

This is my favorite movie ever.

Re: Celebrating an Iraq deployment?

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

LOL! Why does that just make absolute, perfect sense? : D