ABSTRACT: Highlights of Monterey County Weekly Editor Paul Wilner’s commentary entitled “Not So Fresh Thinking: P.G. market ruckus symbolizes civic wrong turns” (March 11, 2010) are presented with a link to the complete commentary.
Highlights of MCW Editor Paul Wilner’s ‘Not So Fresh Thinking:”
• “The current Carmel mayor and City Council debate, which should be an occasion for the community to reflect on political and ethical mistakes, reform its ways and chart a new course, have instead become yet another occasion for the incumbents to circle the wagons.”
• “They have been enabled, of course, by The Carmel Pine Cone, house organ of the downtown establishment.”
• “...Pine Cone publisher Paul Miller, denouncing the Weekly for running comments on the letters page that were critical of Carmel mayor Sue McCloud…Miller proudly announced that he and his staff dropped readers’ comments from their website in 1998 and 'have never been the slightest bit tempted to revive our web forum.'"
• “His (Paul Miller’s) real beef seems to be that the comments on McCloud’s administration were negative – which simply reflected what our website’s visitors were saying. In the new communications age, information wants to be free – except, apparently, in Carmel. “
• “But small-town, small-time thinking won’t solve real problems.”
(Source: Not So Fresh Thinking: P.G. market ruckus symbolizes civic wrong turns., Paul Wilner, MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY, March 11, 2010)
3 comments:
I could not agree more with Paul Wilner. I wish he was the editor of The Carmel Pine Cone. If he was I am confident he would put pressure on the incumbents to reflect on their records and reform their ways. Of course, this kind of pressure which has never been brought to bear on the incumbents before now would have probably saved us the grief on having to consider them again this time for reelection.
Wow! Paul Wilner nailed Paul Miller. Too many Carmelites rely on Paul Millers carmel pine cone exclusively for info about Carmel, so much so they are not thinking for themselves and certainly not thinking in the best interests of Carmel and the future of Carmel.
What we have is a whizzing match between two newspaper editors. Good for Paul Wilner for firing back at Paul Miller's editorial attacks in the Pine Cone.
Paul Miller does no service to the residents of Carmel with his biased reporting. He has the ability to create facts from his fantasies about the city administration. That's not journalism. How can you have honest reporting when individuals like Sue McCloud dictate the story to a reporter?
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