Editor:
Newspapers do not always print all the facts and truth. Misguided stories written and reported are just living up to the standards you, as the editor, have set.
You cannot be an editor/journalist if you have a conscience because there is no place for that at a newspaper. I am sure that is not what a journalism professor would teach. That professor would inspire you to not just be a good journalist but to be a great person, with a conscience.
Journalists are one of the gatekeepers, or one of the few who have the power to enlighten and encourage millions of lives, just by the way they tell the facts and certainly all the truth.
Our community/Valley is full of haters, people who lie, children who suffer and people who kill over meaningless incidents.
But our community/Valley is much more than that. The news is more than that. There is good news, so many persons, organizations, businesses and entities work hard to improve and make our community a better place, which we seldom read about.
There are generous people, good and honest politicians and of course good Samaritans who live in our community. But if hate/lies/suffering/evil and deceit are all we ever read about in our local newspaper, then that is what we are led to believe our community is all about. This is not true.
Our community has a lot of good. All it takes is for the hearts of people to turn toward hope, instead of despair; toward forgiveness, instead of condemnation and toward love, instead of judgment.
I believe if you’re going to report on someone that could have consequential results, the public needs to know all the facts and complete truth. One can throw away the evidence but one cannot throw away the facts, which substantiate the truth.
A perfect example is that our local newspaper cannot put aside politics and personal vengeance.
Mabel Marquez
Santa Cruz