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Let’s call this a beginning. , This newspaper hired a new editor this week, a fact that has been more than clearly documented on these pages.
But if change itself breeds more changes, then the loyal readers of this small country weekly are in for some new looks in their newspaper.
That is not to say the changes will be for the better or for the worse; each and every reader will be left to make that assessment.
Although cosmetic changes are sure to develop and editorial policy may differ from the past, there are some basic journalistic principles which are absolute and are in need of reaffirmation.
The first and foremost duty of any newspaper, whether it be a big-city daily or a small-town weekly, is to inform the public, to provide information to its readers about their community, their government, their neighbors. That information must be free and clear of the binding strings of personal beliefs and practices of the reporter, the editor, the general manager or anyone else connected with the newspaper.
That information, provided it is presented in a manner of feste befitting the community, has no conscience. The newspaper has no responsibility to protect the supervisor’s wife, the sheriffs son, the mayor’s best Mend.
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