Monday, June 14, 2010
The recent column published in the Valdosta Daily Times on June 5, 2010 by Columnist Jay Ambrose read: PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SELF-CONTRADICTIONS HURT HIM…AND ARE CATCHING UP WITH HIM CONCERNING HIS PROMISE OF A TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Ambrose columns spew out venom towards President Barack Obama in his columns in the Valdosta Daily Times so repeatedly and it seems to have become a routine practice in the Times. However it seems strange that Mr. Ambrose never addresses or criticizes our local news paper and television stations that is perhaps the most closed in the country. Their whiteout of the news worthy information has contributed to keeping citizens ignorant to what goes on at public meetings in the State of Georgia.
There have been two recent Valdosta School Board Meetings concerning hot bed community issues that dealt with the education of our children. In addition there have also been meetings at the Lowndes County Board of Education wherein a retired school Assistant Principal addressed the board that was never published to the general public.
We can only ask why our local news papers and television stations would ignore information from public meetings in the State of Georgia as if these meetings never took place. These omissions remind me of the Old Valdosta City Charter of 1860 Mentality that read in Article 100, Section XI:
“THAT THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL SHALL PASS ALL PROPER AND NECESSARY LAWS AND ORDINANCES FOR THE CONTROL OF SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOR IN SAID TOWN AND SUPPRESS AND ABATE ALL NUISANCES ARRIVING FROM HOGS, DOGS, HORSES, OR OTHER STOCK STRAYING AT LARGE IN SAID TOWN, OR FROM OTHER CAUSES.”
Links to ponder: http://medianeeded.blogspot.com, http://sganews.blogspot.com
Our local news media has revealed a practice and patter of keeping the general public deaf, dumb and blind to the times and unable to make intelligent decision based on facts from public meetings in the State of Georgia. How sad?
GEORGE BOSTON RHYNES
Retired United States Military Veteran
A concerned citizen and brother of humanity
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