Sunday, April 5, 2015

Margaret Menge, self-described reporter/editor, taking time off "to reflect"

Maybe Ms. Menge will reflect on her standards for community journalism here in the City of Lake Worth. Maybe she'll reflect on her sin of sensationalizing suicide (more on this tomorrow)? She has the time; she's taken the week off from publishing her ALWAYS FREE 'newspaper'. Possibly she'll reconsider her defense of the image below as acceptable Free Speech in our small city. 
At a Lake Worth City Commission meeting on 9/23/14 Margaret Menge defended the image above created and published by Lynn Anderson. Here is the proof. Question: what community benefit does an image of our mayor "in flames" serve?

In her rambling 'House Editorial' (Vol. 1/Issue 11 on 3/27/15) announcing she's "taking off next week" she does does write this one paragraph which is sound advice:
     When we talk about sight, and seeing, I think we often mean not just seeing with the eyes, but seeing in a deeper way, with a willingness and a desire to see and know what is true, and to reject what is false.
A good place to start is reviewing the first eleven issues.