I was sincerely saddened by the Saturday April 10 front page story about the airport redevelopment project (Sewer system agreement off the table). Saddened, and shocked.
By what bizarre standard could such a biased misrepresentation of reality be called reporting?
Dale Neiman and the Clearlake City Council behave and speak like extortionist thugs, refusing to pony up their fair share of their own city”s sewer repair bill, on the grounds that they are having difficulty getting their way in a fiscally unsound scheme to channel millions of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of a wealthy out-of-state corporation.
Neiman admits he wanted to use Redevelopment money to pay himself, and it appears that he and the city council were looking forward to using those millions of taxpayer dollars in various inappropriate ways which taxpayers would never intended, and which would cause the city more harm than good. Neiman and the Clearlake City Council cry wa-wa-wa because they are not getting their own way ? and the Record-Bee published their self-serving baloney as if it were truth.
According to Saturday”s Record-Bee, the city of Clearlake wouldn”t be having any problems whatsoever right now, were it not for that gol-durn, pesky, meddling, unpatriotic, tree-hugging, commie-pinko-socialist hates-mothers-and-apple-pie Sierra Club!
Furthermore, the Record-Bee provided extensive contact information, and encouraged enraged citizens (goaded by the biased misinformation in the so-called article), to contact the Sierra Club itself, to protest!
Whatever that article was, it was not journalism. It was not responsible. It was not truthful.
There is a place for editorials, and that is in the opinion section. Publishing Rockenstein”s opinion piece on the front page, as a news story, did disservice to the citizens of Lake County and to the concept of journalistic ethics.
Deb Baumann
Upper Lake
