Dear Editor,
Shame on you Gilroy Dispatch for lack of coverage and
cooperation in reporting on the Megan’s Law Meeting held by Gilroy
Police at Luigi Aprea School last Wednesday evening.
Dear Editor,
Shame on you Gilroy Dispatch for lack of coverage and cooperation in reporting on the Megan’s Law Meeting held by Gilroy Police at Luigi Aprea School last Wednesday evening. Requests were made to be included in the daily bulletin and you neglected to do this. Contact was made with editors and a story was promised but never published.
The one small mention in the paper the Saturday prior to the meeting was condescending to the “handful of concerned parents” and if anything, belittled the efforts of concerned parents and Gilroy PD to develop dialogue on this emotionally charged subject. Despite this, approximately 200 concerned parents and community members and two principals showed up to hear an excellent powerpoint presentation by Detective Michael Beebe and Santa Clara District Attorney Investigator Sharon Pearsons on the implications of Megan’s Law and how it affects our children and schools.
This will hopefully be a model for future meetings, including meetings in primarily Spanish speaking areas. Questions were taken from the community and answered honestly. Written resources including information on developing Neighborhood Watch Programs were available for community members to take home.
So, the question remains on why the community newspaper, chose not to provide coverage for this important town hall style meeting. Judging from recent letters, it appears that a letter has to be sarcastic and full of childish name calling and obvious bias to be published. Columnists routinely spend the bulk of their columns publishing disparaging remarks about other columnists. Front Page space is spent on profiling tracking down tractor thieves rather than articles that could help protect our children. It seems your priorities are a little out of whack.
Of course, I will be surprised if this letter is published as I am above name calling. However, if you choose not to publish this, you will prove my point. Gilroy Dispatch, I challenge you to improve. And while you’re at it, how about a front section more than six pages.
Suzane Colbert, Gilroy
Editor’s note: Well, surprise … The Dispatch did notice
the meeting beforehand and sent a reporter to
cover it who wrote a story published in Tuesday’s
edition. Though, due to an editor’s oversight,
Ms. Colbert’s first letter did not make it into print before the meeting.
