Personal/Misc

The print media often claims that its purpose is to provide information to the citizens. Does anyone believe this?

The Bee recently sued to obtain pension information on Stan County retired employees. Public employee are also citizens. Who agrees this information should be public information?

Since the print media has the ability to decide elections, sway peoples oppinions, and choose which facts it puts in a story or leaves out, should'nt they provide the salaries of all its staff and employees?

If the  print media were concerned about quality factual reporting, all papers would be free. If the goal of papers is to inform the public of what is occuring, then all papers should be free. The cost of making papers would be paid for by Ads.

It has been very apparent that here on the Modesto Bee “The Hive” on-line public forum over the past several months there is a group of bloggers who have made an concerted and choreographed effort to misrepresent a specific group of people who were running for public office.  This effort, up until the election, consisted basically of insinuating that specific candidates have committed illegal activities, making innuendos that specific candidates were receiving funding for their campaigns with “quid-pro-quo” elements behind the funding, and that some of the candidates (they felt) had in their opinion violated the law by actually voting on issues for political pay back on contributions.