Yesterdays news today.
Sue Brooks September 17th, 2009
While development is still taking pride of place within our daily newspaper the story is a measured and accurate description of the Mary Harbour proposal. Gone is the hysteria from the last couple of stories thank goodness. Cr O’Connell has been given enough space to provide a sensible report on his own and Councils collective efforts to assist and not hinder the redevelopment of the burned buildings in Maryborough. I thank Cr O’Connell for quickly responding to that story and for the Chronicle for reporting it.
As a resident who can’t break the habit of a life time which is to start my day with a walk down the drive way to collect my daily paper I look forward to balanced reporting which gives me both sides of a story. I also believe that if the media concentrates heavily on all the negative aspects of our society we all collectively tend to get a bit depressed and worry that our society is very inadequate and faulty. A good balance between the bad news and the good news is seen in the paper today and I appreciate that. While I want to know what is happening within my community I don’t want the court cases taking prominence. While I believe that publicly shaming our wrong doers is a very good deterrant I trust that we can read about our hard working community members doing good deeds in greater numbers than our wrong doers.
We are lucky to live in a great climate within a good community. There are many positive stories and I find inspiration and a lifting of my spirit when I hear about people overcoming challenges and getting on with life. I hope our media can find the right balance.
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