I am writing directly to you, as supposed journalists and professionals, recognizing you will most likely not publish this letter.
Can you tell me who the president-elect is? I couldn’t tell from reading the newspaper last week.
Please go back to the archives for the last two elections and take note of how and what you printed, and compare it to last week’s coverage.
I kept looking for a headline, similar to the New York Times headline, or other national coverage, but you simply refused to publish the most important national event of this year in an honest and forthright manner.
Your jobs as professional journalists is to print the news, not as you wished it to play out, but exactly as it happened.
In short, your front page story of a close vote the day after the election was ridiculous. Your front page story of the markets crashing two days after the markets had closed at all-time highs simply made the Durango Herald look out of touch with reality.
Your scurrying to publish articles about the protests with misleading headlines, while still not admitting the honest election results, brings everything you publish into question.
For more than a year, marijuana dominated the front page headlines, but you couldn’t name the president-elect?
Integrity still means integrity, and while your news world has slipped into a pot-induced bubble of obfuscation, the rest of us require honesty in journalism.
You completely disrespected my vote.
Bad form. Very bad form.
Janet Enge
Durango
