We hope that today’s “IS IT TRUEâ€Â will provoke honest and open dialogue concerning issues that we, as responsible citizens of this community, need to address in a rational and responsible way?
IS IT TRUEÂ that on Monday, December 30, 2019, at !0:30 A.M at the Evansville Convention and Vistors Board will hold a closed-door Executive Se3ssion regarding Personnel and Strategic Economic Development pursuant to I. C.- 514-1-.5-6.1 and will be held at the Evansville Convention and Vistors headquarters?
IS IT TRUE we are told that Jim Wood the former CEO and President Greater of the Greater Louisville Convention And Vistors Bureau is the leading candidate for President and CEO of the Evansville Convention and Vistors Bureau job?
Footnote: This morning we posted by mistake a draft copy of what we plan to correct and post on Monday, December 30, 2019, “IS IT TRUE” section concerning the meeting of the Evansville Convention and Vistors Board on this coming Monday  We apologize for our mistake.
IS IT TRUE that since the first newspaper was published in 1690 through the turn of the century defined by the year 2000, newspapers have served as the most important medium for holding politicians accountable in an objective and fair manner?…the journalists of old were all about accuracy, fairness, checking their sources, and of course, being good citizen businesses?…capitalism has rewarded newspaper owners with status, prestige, and profits turning names like Hurst, Bingham, and Scripps into household names?
IS IT TRUE newspapers have always been seen as game-changers in exposing corruption and government waste in a fair and honest manner?…sometime around the turn of the century things began to change?…with the widespread availability of the internet, cable news, and the opinion obsessions that followed, newspapers changed from their humble but noble calling into mass disseminators of the same national stories intermingled with biased opinion pieces about things that local people are not in tune to?…the downfall is near complete now as many small papers have folded, dozens of large papers have had to seek bankruptcy protection, and the one the street journalist corps has been depleted to the point of being ineffective?…this has prevailed in nearly every town in America and the fall-off in subscribers and advertisers has punished the editors and publishers for selling their souls for partisan ideology?
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IS IT TRUE that one newspaper even believed that a 150-room hotel would create over 800 direct jobs?…one would have to be really bad at math to believe that a hotel with 65% occupancy that rents for $120 per day could survive with $320 per room day in labor costs? …this nonsense all happened right here in River City and the only publication to call all of this out was the City-County Observer?…the real question is why has the cognitive ability of reporting turned into mush?…the survival of news reporting depends on getting back to honest reality about local interests?
IS IT TRUE we could go on for several pages about biased TV journalism is a topic for another day? ..the harsh reality is that between biased reporting and intentionally reporting falsehoods, the business of reporting the news has turned off nearly everyone?…with Facebook and other social media making every human being a reporter without any truth filters, we are becoming an amazingly misinformed nation but most of us don’t seem to know it?
IS IT TRUE that it is no secret that the newspaper industry has been falling on hard times for at least a decade?…from the New York Times to every daily news based paper in the country the struggle to survive has meant cuts to staff and the associated lowering the bar when it comes to quality?…it seems as though any small to medium-sized daily paper that once captured a reader’s attention for a half-hour a day is now only capable of keeping one’s attention for less than 10 minutes? …we are being told by friends in the mainstream media if the out-of-town conglomerate that owns the Evansville Courier and Press doesn’t pay strict attention to the business at hand they could be forced to publish online only? …we hope that this doesn’t happen because we also enjoy reading a printed newspaper?
IS IT TRUE THAT when former CCO editor and celebrated innovation CEO from Palm Springs, California was asked about the CCO publishing a printed newspaper his answer was surprising?…Mr. Wallace quickly pointed out that newsrooms across the country that are delivering print products are on a 20-year shrinking spree with some newsrooms having less than half of the reporters they had 10 years ago.
IS IT TRUE we are told by reliable sources that business tycoon Ron Geary will be in town next week to meet a group of well-heeled business people to discuss a possible multi-million venture capital opportunity in Evansville proper? Â …we are pleased to hear if Mr. Geary decides to move forward with this mega capital venture he will not be asking for any governmental handouts?
IS IT TRUE that Evansville, Indiana has always been accepting of a practice known as “political patronage†when it comes to jobs that are financed fully or partially by public dollars?…it has been so entrenched that a former Evansville Mayor whom we shall not name has been quoted as saying “I get all of the credit and they take all of the blame†to justify appointing his political supporters to jobs under his control?
IS IT TRUE when the people fear the Government we have Tyranny! Â When the Government fears the people we have Liberty
IS IT TRUE the results of our most recent “READERS POLL” were extremely eye-opening? …the question was “who’s the most effective State Representative in our area”?  ..Wendy McNamara (R)-193, Ron Beacon (R)- 174, Matt Hostetter (R)-123, Holli Sullivan (R)-61 and Ryan Hatfield (D) received a disappointing 27 votes?  …78 people said they had no idea?…665 people voted in this non-science but trendy poll?
Today’s “Readers Poll†question is:  Who’s the most effective State Senator in our area?
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Dear Editor,
Your statement about political patronage has merit . . .of course, this practice is SOP (Std operating Procedure) and is not limited to this administration nor this town . . .this is why when old Russ tells the Council that one of tools in the toolbox is attrition to reduce general fund expenses, it is laughable . . .
So Trump calling the media fake news is not that far out. It doesn’t take much to observe that the media is deemed fake news because of the difference in the ways it treats conservative and liberal family members. The reason FOX news is watched by a greater number of people is that it trusted more. CNN actually pays airports to televise its cable news.
As for political patronage, it is true in the worse way. A few years ago worked with an individual who told me he was going to work for the Sheriff’s Dept, he explained that a well known figure in Evansville was his sponsor. Sure enough, it happened as described. The worse offender is the school corporation. Some of the jobs are slightly more than ghost jobs. This is why we have 3 or more people getting paid for the same job, 1 is working and 2 are on PERF.
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