Why would any thinking and intelligent folks care what the Erie Times-News and its hand-picked assemblage of bureaucrats, ivy-towered academicians and pompous third rate editorialists have to say about shaping the future of the Erie area?
The failing newspaper, which has had to unload a bunch of staff persons and cut the salaries of the rest while shrinking its news coverage to an irreducible minimum, should focus its dwindling energies on its own broken publishing infrastructure.
If the Times-News would do the job its supposed to of adequately informing its readership of the state of public affairs rather than trying to manipulate them in its own selfish interests, the community would be better served.
The community doesn't need the half-baked concoctions of an arrogant and power-hungry editorial board to tell it what it should or shouldn't do, especially a publishing monopoly which can't competently manage its own business and professional affairs, awash in a tsunami of demoralized staff.
In a feeble attempt to bolster its waning relevance within the community, the Times-News cobbled together what it fatuosly labelled "Erie Agenda 09," a time warp reference it would seem from the worn-out rhetoric surrounding it, to 1909 A.D., pitching it as a catalyst for change, but inadvertently invoking the ageless truism that the more things change, the more they are the same.
Scarcely reassuring was the assertion in the Times-News and Goerie.com Wednesday that the discussion during last night's "forum" would be "guided" by such ineffectual luminaries and psuedo-journalists as Managing Editor Pat Howard, Public Editor (so-called) Liz Allen, Assistant Managing Editor Kevin Cuneo, and Reporter Kevin Flowers, all of whom many of us see as part of the problem rather than part of a solution.
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