Joel writes;
> At one time the SW Journal was a comfortable community newspaper > highlighting the happenings and events in SW Mpls. Over the past few years > this paper has broadened its reach to a point where is really is no longer a > SW Mpls newspaper. A significant number of the articles (especially lead > stories) have nothing to do with SW Minneapolis. And, an exceptional amount > of the display ads are for businesses outside of SW Mpls. > And, for whatever reason, the SW Journal has some bee in their bonnet and > appears to want to lambaste the Minneapolis Park system that works very > hard, with a minimal budget, to provide services to our residents. > Every time a read a SW Journal I wonder how we could get the Sun Current > Newspapers to offer a replacement paper. Their newspaper is much more > community oriented, and filled with "happy news". For hard news I look to > the "real" NEWSpapers. > The SW Journal needs to decide if they want to be a SW Mpls newspaper, or > the Skyway News. They most certainly, in my opinion (and I hear the same > from others) no longer represent SW Mpls. > > Joel Brand > SW Mpls - Lynnhurst I couldn't disagree more. Long before Cap'n David took over the editorship, the SWJ was delivering some of the best work I've ever seen in the city. I regularly read the North News, Northeaster News, Camden News, South Side Pride, City Pages, Bulldog, Lakes Area News ( when it was around), Pulse, Daily, Strib, and the Angle. Pound for pound, ounce for ounce this paper kicks butt. You get the crime news, neighborhood events and the amount raised at the bake sale. You get guest writers and columnist who could write for much larger sheets. It's not totally whacked out lib like most press in town. The classifieds move product. The letters are better then the stribs. If the strib was ever to find them selves in daily competition with anyone, it will be by the folks who brought you the SWJ. PS The story that made the journal was Steve Minn's election harassment by the city of Mpls, and the eventual out-of-court settlement the city paid to Mr. Minn for it's illegal behavior in 1993. The SWJ had that story cold. The strib didn't cover it until it was old news. Kind of like the NYTimes catching up to Woodward and Bernstein. Like the Times, the Strib never did catch up on that one. And they had seven days a week to do it. Craig Miller Former Fultonite Who Still drives in two times a month to pick up his SWJ and catch the best lunch in town, Broder's [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
