Sunday's Erie Times-News carried a self-serving article
reporting that the paper won seven, count them seven,
press awards announced by the Pennsylvania Newspaper
Assn. Foundation recently.
The article said the Times-News won the awards in
competition with other newspapers throughout the
state with circulations ranging between 35,000 and 70,000.
It neglected to mention that these are Division
Two newspapers. This division includes smaller
newspaper cities around the state like York,
Bucks County, Reading, York, Erie and others.
It does not include the bigger and more prestigious
papers such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Philly News, the
Allentown Morning Call, the Pittsburgh Tribune
and the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
By failing to make that distinction, the Times-News
gave the false impression that the awards it received were
in competition with those far superior newspapers.
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