Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Reader: Carol Stark, Joplin Globe have sold out their community

The following is a reader's response to my post about today's Joplin Globe editorial in which the Globe indicated that it supported whatever Joplin R-8 Superintendent C. J. Huff or City Administrator Mark Rohr suggested because it was better to be doing something that is unpopular than to be doing nothing.

If Napoleon said it's true, then it must be so, said the dumb beasts.

No decision is worse than an unpopular decision? What kind of stupid reasoning is that? No decision was so urgent that it needed to be made without full consensus of the public. It appears that the editor and publisher of the Globe have completely overlooked the fact that the original East Middle School could have been ready for the students in August of 2011 at minimal cost to taxpayers. Why have they not investigated this fraud? That the buildings are not what voters paid for reveals abuse of public funds. Where is their investigation? They see nothing; they hear nothing; they report nothing. And therefore, they are a waste of natural resources.

Carol Stark has sold out her own community. What a pity and a shame. If the whole purpose of a newspaper is to protect and promote the public interest by keeping government within its bounds, how can they justify their pulp newspaper? One might as well read a rag off the rack at the Walmart check-out lanes as to seek valuable information from the local news outlets. I will never pay the Globe a dime again as long as the current publisher and editor are in place.

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