I read with some amusement recent letters to The Herald editor complaining of plastic newspaper wrappers, typos, sections being different than before, etc. Let’s be thankful that our community has a local paper. In my time on this planet, Seattle has had three daily papers. Now only one is left.
Is it really that much of an effort to rearrange the sections of the paper to one’s satisfaction? Having been in the newspaper business for 22 years (never an employee of The Herald) I can state that typos have always been part of the newspaper business. The humorous thing we used to say was, “We live by our mistakes, doctors bury theirs.” Got lots of chuckles until you said that to a doctor. And would one rather have a wet paper than one protected by plastic?
Look at how newspapers operate now. In the old days the reporter went out, got a story, came back and wrote the story, sent it to the print area and the next day it appeared in print. Today the reporters often write multiple versions of important or breaking stories. To the web, Twitter, with updates throughout the day. And the staff is smaller now than in what used to be the “salad days” of newspapers.
We should applaud The Herald staff for the great reporting job they did re MPHS October tragedy. And what a tremendous effort the staff put forth on the Oso stories.
We should be thankful that we have such great local owners who produce a very good paper seven days a week.
And while still on “my soapbox,” I would like to ask what makes a letter writer from Everett chastise the Marysville School District for a decision to permanently close the MPHS cafeteria where such a tragic event took place in October? I believe it is so much better that our local leaders did their surveys and made a decision that is best for our community. Perhaps the Everett resident who was very critical of us for this decision might want to get more involved in his local school district. The Everett School District seems to have many more problems than us “country bumpkins.”
Don Wlazlak
Marysville
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