News ignored

0 Comments | Oakland Tribune, Nov 3, 2009 | by Anonymous

News ignored

I guess the "Times" didn't get the word, but there was a large gathering of citizens at Civic Park in Walnut Creek on the evening of Oct. 28.

In fact, I guess none of the media got the word as their representatives were all prominent by their absence. Yes, local folks and others met to greet the "Tea Party Express," which is once again touring the country to raise awareness and express the dissatisfaction many citizens have with the way our country is being "changed."

No one in the Fourth Estate covered the event in our town. To partially quote Ralph Hoffman's Oct. 29 letter to the editor, "Pension spiking," "Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems to me that reporting on political meetings, before and after, is more important in preserving our freedoms."

This lack of attention by our paper to an event that is important to a good number of local and area citizens is a clear example of why people are looking, more and more, to the Internet for the unfiltered, meaningful news of the day.

Clarence De Barrows

Walnut Creek