It is refreshing to read of a local newspaper that investigates the activities of powerful people and organisations to hold them to public account. How many other newspapers have ever done so, and how few even attempt it now? I call out my own local daily here in north-east England, the Northern Echo which, since its founding in 1870, has resolutely refused to pursue investigative journalism of any kind. Instead, this rag publishes photos of local, working-class offenders in order to divide us and to delude us that the ruling class and business are trustworthy.
Bruce Willingham and the McCurtain Gazette-News are to be highly commended.
It is refreshing to read of a local newspaper that investigates the activities of powerful people and organisations to hold them to public account. How many other newspapers have ever done so, and how few even attempt it now? I call out my own local daily here in north-east England, the Northern Echo which, since its founding in 1870, has resolutely refused to pursue investigative journalism of any kind. Instead, this rag publishes photos of local, working-class offenders in order to divide us and to delude us that the ruling class and business are trustworthy.
Bruce Willingham and the McCurtain Gazette-News are to be highly commended.