Issue 13 of Margaret Menge's tabloid and it's still free!

All the noise about people having to pay for her tabloid this week was just that, noise. Apparently she's no longer able to drop the paper at houses in neighborhoods anymore; now she, or one of her minions, is tasked with leaving piles at places like Publix and other downtown establishments alongside real newspapers like the Sun Sentinel and The Palm Beach Post. Faux gravitas.

For those wondering why Ms. Menge is publishing her own paper it's because no respectable news organization will hire her; so start your own paper! Problem solved. However, the real problem still exists: Ms. Menge is a terrible reporter and an even worse editor. But she is a very good writer though. A good writer does not mean that person can be a reporter; reporting on events is a talent. A skill that businesses like The Palm Beach Post pay a lot of money for. Whether it's intentional or not she manipulates headlines, mixes fact with opinion, loaded language, and uses clever name drops and quotes. You can see how someone who didn't know the facts would fall for it.

Take for example this gem:

This is very clever. Note the title: "City Demolishing Boarded-Up Buildings". Note the picture; this is Mr. Greg Rice's property that was demolished on April 10th. If you didn't take the time to read the article you would conclude what? The City demolished Mr. Rice's property. Right? Wrong. 

Mr. Rice paid for this himself. 

Here are the first five words by Ms. Menge: "A historic Lucerne Avenue building". The building is on Lucerne Ave: TRUE. The building is historic: FALSE. The building that was demolished was old. It was not historic. There is a very big difference. Some old man in Atlantis reminiscing false memories of who/what/when 'back in the day' has no place in the present. Many city commissions, going back decades, had their priorities and saving buildings west of Dixie wasn't among them. Now people like City Manager Michael Bornstein and Mayor Pam Triolo are tasked with cleaning up the mess left by former mayors and commissions. Dennis Dorsey is one of those mayors. And so was former Commissioner JoAnn Golden. And Cara Jennings. Need I go on?

The silver lining is ever since Ms. Menge's Vol. 1/Issue 1 in January of this year my blog traffic is off the charts. Always look for the good in everything!

There's a lot of material in this week's paper by Ms. Menge. It's a target-rich environment so I'll have to be selective. Stay tuned and as always, thank you for visiting my blog.

Oh, hold on! Here's one more thing:

The 'facts' above will be the subject of a future post. "Deputy editor of the Miami Herald-owned paper there." Come now, Margaret. Just a SLIGHT exaggeration?