"Anyone Better Out There"? Elderly man as "Peter"-board at City Commission meeting

Mr. Peter Timm, elderly Lake Worth resident, stunt/prop at city commission meeting on Tuesday, 4/21 (Photo in Ms. Menge's tabloid. No credit given and photographer unidentified.) 

More stunts, drama, and clever misinformation from self-described 'reporter/editor' Margaret Menge. The image above of Peter Timm appeared in her House Editorial titled, "Anyone Better Out There?". The same can be said of Ms. Menge and her tabloid.

Lake Worth Vice Mayor Scott Maxwell at a city commission meeting on Tuesday, 4/21, had enough of the misinformation and disinformation about "the Beach!" and let his thoughts be known. Ms. Menge lamely responded this way in her editorial three days later:

     Three members of law enforcement—Capt. Rolando Silva and two deputies—sat on the back bench. They should have taken Maxwell out and charged him with domestic abuse. It's our house, after all, City Hall.

This is what goes for high-minded editorial content at Ms. Menge's tabloid.

This week we learn that PJ Stevens is no longer at the tabloid. In Vol. 1/Issue 13 she was the "Account Executive". This week, Issue 14, she's gone. There are a total of three ads in her tabloid this week. Three. The tabloid still has no price and is free of charge but she's advertising a "1 Year Subscription". Figure that one out.

In a front page, below the fold item titled, "TRIOLO, I Didn't Know Anything About Proposal for Convention Center" she apologizes to Mayor Pam Triolo for a misleading story the week before: albeit lamely. The apology is in the very last paragraph, on page 4 at the bottom of the page where the story is "continued from Page 1".

I'll examine this story in depth next week. Probably no better example of how information is manipulated to confuse the public.

Ultimately, Ms. Menge and her tabloid is a sad story. It's a story about a woman who desperately wants to be a respected "community journalist" but she fails to understand what community journalism is. You can read about that in "the tale of a reporter named Margaret Menge". Community journalism is one of those things that are hard to define precisely—"you know it when you see it".

Ms. Menge just doesn't "see it" and she never will. Very sad.