Dzubay Strikes Again

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1. bildanielson says:

   12/8/2006 at 8:04 am

   Curt,
   This is fascinating. Your link to the Forum Communications site includes this passage regarding the City of River Falls:

   The River Falls Journal is the only weekly paper in this rapidly growing community of about 10,000 people situated on the Kinnickinnic River, a nationally-known class I trout stream. While about half the workers make the 35-mile commute via all four-lane highway to Minneapolis-St. Paul for their jobs each day, the balance are employed locally at UW-River Falls and employers like Designer Doors, Kolpak, BioDiagnosics, QMR Plastics, Hal’s Millwork, O’Keefe Cabinets, Foley United, Best Maid Cookies, Sajan, Inc., Royal Finishing and a variety of retail outlets.

   Now wait just a cotton pickin minute here, no other government employees? No government K-12 school workers in River Falls, no county workers, no city employees?

   Just what percentage of the employees in the River Falls area are government workers of one sort or another?

   “Forum Communications” is an incongruent tag, vis-a-vis reality; Forum is defined several ways including: “A medium for open discussion or voicing of ideas, such as a newspaper, a radio or television program, or a website.”

   Communications is similarly defined in numerous ways including: “Any of various professions involved with the transmission of information, such as advertising, broadcasting, or journalism.”

   So, by any objective standard Forum Communications should be about publications that principally promote open discussion – does anyone out there really think this is the nature of either the Hudson Star Observer, the River Falls Journal, or the highly controversial New Richmond News?

   Oxymoron it is not, incongruent with reality – you be the judge.
2. embers says:

   12/8/2006 at 7:51 pm

   Did you notice that when Doug Stohlberg is out sick, assistant editor Randy “no bias here” Hanson stacks the editorial page with pro-referendum letters (24 strong yes, and 5 very mild no letters). I have heard from others that their letters were also not published, yet there is no notice of “too many letters to print” on the editorial page.

   I don’t mean to argue with you Curt, but I doubt that your letter made it as far as Steve Dzubay. Randy was in charge this week and worked it for all that he was worth. I wonder if he “promoted” Meg for the week so she could get a taste of that power?

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