Re: In fairness to the Daily News...

[Don Coombs <mushroom@moscow.com>]

Western, Diamond wrote:
> 
> The Daily News has been run through the wringer on this board....
> While I often disagree with the Daily News and sometimes have a tantrum of
> disgust, I still must admit, as far as newspapers go, it is a good quality
> journal.

What this proves is that Diamond is a kinder person than I
am. To pick up just one issue of the Daily News at random
(Wednesday's), the story about rerouting highway 95 refers
to "grey horn owls" (an extremely rare species not even
found in field guides) and reports someone wants highway 95
to bypass Moscow "on the south" (when the highway, as many
of us know, goes north and south -- limiting bypassing to
east or west). Then there's a feature on a barn in Uniontown
which refers to the artist "Van Gough," and a front page
advance story on Bernard Shaw's appearance at WSU that very
night. If you are going to run an advance story, it makes
sense to give readers more than an hour or so to plan -- it
makes sense to run it at least one day before.

Signed--
Warmly, kindly (sort of), Don Coombs

  Having read daily locals from Maine to Hawaii, and points
in
> between, I have found the Daily News to be in the upper end of quality.  For
> that matter, the one greatest failing, at least in my mind, is it does not
> agree with my point of view nearly enough.  Then again, if it agreed with me
> then I would not read it as I would learn nothing.
> 
> Although I may not always be overjoyed with the Daily News, I certainly
> apprecitate it over the alternative of no news.