Like many of you, the PRU Crew has subscriptions to the Park Ridge Herald-Advocate. Every Thursday, we await our weekly ration of local pulp. So after our copies had been read and digested yesterday, we let out a collective belch of "WhatThe****!?"
The entirety of page 7 and part of page 9 were devoted to "City's melting pot tradition"; a story about immigration. Not the current hot topic of illegal immigration. No. That may have made sense. But no. Instead, 763 words about legal immigrants, and a lot of census data, and the history of legal immigrants to...Park Ridge? Noooooo...to the Chicago area and northwest suburbs.
We can all look forward to the next three weeks too! As, this was the first in a month-long series. Oh, goody.
But it wasn't that story that caused our reaction. Rather, it was the lengthy coverage given to that story compared to the coverage given to the issues that seem upper most in the minds of many residents in the Park Ridge community.
Four current issues and concerns to the Park Ridge community, 1) the new garbage cart program, 2) Norwood's Executive Office Plaza project, 3) Alderman Wsol's request that the city council discuss staggering aldermanic terms and, 4) the Mayor's annual address to the Chamber of Commerce where he announced the expected opening of four new businesses in Park Ridge next year, got covered only as "News Briefs". One half of one page for a total of 623 words.
WhatThe****!?
October 19, 2007
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The newspaper is a dying medium, being replaced by TV, talk radio and online publications such as Park Ridge Underground. Given the budget cuts, we're lucky the "local" Thursday paper prints any local news at all. At least they still run the letters.
As for the local Wednesday paper....
Too bad we have to rely on that birdcage liner for our local news. And overworked reporters, many of whom don't really care about local government and seem to move on just about the time they're finally figuring it out, don't help.
The Park Ridge Herald Advocate is a Park Ridge paper in name only. It's been that way for a very long time. At least we have the PRU!
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