Reader concerned about paper’s merger
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Sherry Bowman
Published: October 5, 2008
I’ve subscribed to the Manassas Journal Messenger since I went to college in 1971. I’m very concerned with the merger that is about to occur and the coverage of events in Manassas. My concern was
accentuated with the Sept. 13 paper.
Did Osbourn, the hometown high school, or Culpeper, the visiting out of city, out of Prince William County school, win the football game? How can a headline be so inaccurate: “Culpeper hammers
Osbourn,” and why did I have to go to page six to find the results for the local high school?
If your headlines for high school sports can be so blatantly inaccurate, can I believe any local news on the front page of the paper?
I firmly believe that most subscribers to the paper do it for Manassas and Prince William County news, not national news. There are other much better sources for national news. If coverage of the City of
Manassas continues to dwindle with the merger there is no reason to continue with my subscription.
SHERRY BOWMAN
Manassas
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Posted by ( scorpio ) on October 07, 2008 at 10:33 am
Surprisingly I am the only respond to this letter. Media General became the owner of both Potomac News and Journal Messenger with the idea to merge the two papers in the first place but after the outcry on behalf of the residents they dropped the idea (temporarily obviously). Too bad - the Journal Messenger has been part of the tradition of Manassas since around 1860.
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