On the day before the first hearing in what promises to be the most contentious Killeen city budget cycle in years, did the local daily newspaper list its priorities for the year? Did it encourage readers to attend the hearing? Did it stress the importance of the budget plan in improving (or maintaining, or diminishing) the quality of life for 130,000 citizens? No.
(Before I go on: GO TO THE HEARING. It's at 1700 tomorrow (Tuesday, March 20) at the Utility Collections Building, 210 W. Avenue C., in the large conference room.)
But if KDH didn't write about the city, what did it editorialize about? Well, they reprinted (without attribution) an article by a Washington, D.C. hack, Dale McFeatters, about what nice weather we're having this spring. This pertinent piece was also printed by such prestigious papers as the English-language Korea Times.
The refusal of the Killeen newspaper to take a stand, or even make an editorial comment, about local affairs is very disappointing. Why are they in business here if their opinion about the city is that the weather is sometimes good, and even that opinion is best expressed by a writer 1500 miles away?
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