Submitted by Scooper Pooper (not verified) on Thu, 05/27/2010 - 11:28am.
WWAY and its reporting staff have let the Pender County citizens down with its tabloid coverage of the Pender Health Department. The reporting style has been extremely one sided to the point where the station’s management should reprimand the reporters and restrict them from covering any stories out of the New Hanover County boundaries. Creating the news is not journalism nor is it ethical. Your station’s attempts at the ratings game has ripped apart the Pender County Health Department and its dedicated employees who have spent their entire careers helping the under privileged and indigent. The reporters have befriended a few in Pender County who have been willing to talk and whose only purpose is personal gain and not the truth. Thus the coverage has been very narrow minded and does not rate very high on the intelligence scale deserved by the citizens of Pender County.
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do”.
William Blake
In defense of Pender County
WWAY and its reporting staff have let the Pender County citizens down with its tabloid coverage of the Pender Health Department. The reporting style has been extremely one sided to the point where the station’s management should reprimand the reporters and restrict them from covering any stories out of the New Hanover County boundaries. Creating the news is not journalism nor is it ethical. Your station’s attempts at the ratings game has ripped apart the Pender County Health Department and its dedicated employees who have spent their entire careers helping the under privileged and indigent. The reporters have befriended a few in Pender County who have been willing to talk and whose only purpose is personal gain and not the truth. Thus the coverage has been very narrow minded and does not rate very high on the intelligence scale deserved by the citizens of Pender County.
“When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do”.
William Blake