Reader challenges Ridgewood News will print the original letter next to the “fact checked” letter so all its readers can judge for themselves
Paul Aronsohn hasn’t a leg to stand on and neither does The Ridgewood News. It’s not a hedge, it’s called Cover Your Ass. “to the extent that any individual or entity has impliedly suggested or explicitly stated that The Ridgewood News succumbed to any pressure from the Mayor or any other public or private figure with respect to publication of the resident’s letter,, NJMG unequivocally denies the accusation”…except that they did.
Let’s see if that vaunted publication will print the original letter next to the “fact checked” letter so all its readers can judge for themselves as to the heinous “discrepancy between the letter writer’s statement regarding the village attorney’s advice and what the village attorney’s actual advice was with respect to handling matters in open or closed session.”
To wit, Mr. Thompson, if there is a “discrepancy” its taken up in the following issue. Paul Aronsohn and everyone involved with this spectacle should be ashamed of their sophomoric, bullying behavior.
This is a great idea. However, it will only address PART of the story. Ms. McNamara’s letter is not even the point here. The point is that the mayor, an elected official, chose to contact the Ridgewood News in order to have a letter fact-checked. Unless the mayor is employed by the paper to check all letters, then he should not be checking any of them. And certainly he should not be checking just those in which he is portrayed in a poor light.
What happened here is outrageous. He is despicable. It is an embarrassment that he is our mayor.
yawn……
#2 – While posting anonymously online, you can yawn all you want. But for those who send letters to the newspapers WITH THEIR NAMES attached, it is quite an insult that the mayor could interfere with a letter that he felt portrayed him in a bad light. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are nothing to yawn about.