Unfit to Print?
(Feb. 12, 2009) Editor:
Marcy Burstiner correctly notes that “here in Humboldt, we all seem to complain about the quality of our local newspapers” (“Dark Ages,” Feb. 5). But when she lists the newspapers whose “hard-working reporters” without whose work “we wouldn’t have a clue as to what’s happening in our small, isolated world,” she omits the Redwood Times, which is, like the Times-Standard, owned by MediaNews Group, and the Independent, a family-owned publication for which I write.
Those of us who live or work in Southern Humboldt have become all too used to being treated as non-existent entities by the city folk up in Eureka and Arcata, but for an HSU journalism professor, of all people, to fail to acknowledge the contributions of Southern Humboldt reporters to their own communities is inexcusable. Or did Ms. Burstiner really mean “Northern Humboldt” when she wrote “Humboldt”?
— Cristina Bauss, Piercy
Ed. Note: For the sake of completeness, let’s also give a shout-out to the McKinleyville Press, the Ferndale Enterprise andthe Hoopa People.
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Comment / By Trisha / Feb. 12, 2009, 9:44 a.m.
I work for the paper in Hoopa, and I would like to say thank you for the recognition, however, we are the Two Rivers Tribune, not Hoopa People. lol :)
Comment / By Hank Sims / Feb. 12, 2009, 10 a.m.
Hey Trisha! Yes, Heidi told me about that after we went to press. I hadn’t heard! Where can you get the paper down here on the coast, by the way?Comment / By Fred Mangels / Feb. 13, 2009, 8:30 a.m.
I might help if some of the smaller papers had a web site. More people might read their stuff and remember them that way.