[Tomorrow (1/30/15) is the big day for Margaret Menge. Will the errors on her map be fixed? The full page map at the back page of her paper? This was originally published on 1/21 so she's had a full week to fix the errors. From my article last week:]
Margaret Menge is the editor and self-proclaimed top 'journalist' for the Lake Worth Tribune. As such she, or anyone in that position, is responsible for every article, photo and map she publishes. If the first edition is a reflection of the editions to follow, it is clear that the need for another community newspaper is questionable. The leading front page article was baseless, her crime blotter was littered with errors, her 'personal story' laced with embellishments and obfuscations (Do we really need to know all about what happened in Cornwall, NY and Key West, FL? Maybe we do!). I would have loved to attend Dennis Dorsey's Holiday party on December 27th. Tell us what went on there! Were people there communicating in colloquial Latin?
And we find the map of the little City of Lake Worth, a community she has "come to know well"...is also wrong.
The readers of my blog are very detail-oriented. The image below was submitted by a gentle reader and is from the last page of Margaret Menge's Tribune. This is a photo of the 'legend' by Alex Hall that Ms. Menge approved for publishing:
E.R. Bradley's Beach Club located at "17th Ave N."? Huh? No South Dixie Hwy? One single page and 12 errors. On one single page approved by the paper's editor. These were being distributed at our lovely, new Community Information Center in the City Hall Annex, itself mislabeled on the map. Woe to the tourist who tries to interpret such a thing.
Domine, ut videam? Lord, let us see if we really need another newspaper in Lake Worth. Let us see who and how this new organ of "information" came to be. Let us see the finances. Let us see the reason.