NO News not always GOOD News!

You get up in the morning and expect
to go to your LA Times and find the Daily Pilot. You
see...local news is always something that the average
citizen can relate to. This is a great service by the
big newspaper publishers...in order to reach the local
gentry...encourage and stimulate local advertisers...
and generally make community service announcements
that bring in the average schmoo! It's also neat to
see your name in the paper and when local school kids,
activists and politicians have a relevant occurrence
in the local rag....it is nice to cut out the articles
and put them into a nice book for the grandkids and
neighbors to view.

Lovingly, the "The Daily Plot" as we have called it
over the years has provided various community service
events as well as sometimes..some decent local news
coverage. We won't go into the various machinations
or events...except to say...our greatest joy came in
November of 1994...when the front page headline read:
Newport Beach Agog by the election of Winship!" We of
course have kept several copies for posterity.

At any rate, today: June 2nd, 2008 is the first day
that the Daily Pilot will not reach the citizens of
Newport Beach or Costa Mesa! No more Monday's ever!!
We all have heard of the hard times our present bad
economy is providing. People are trying to sell their
SUV's and can't without taking tremendous losses. The
property values are falling even here in the bastion
of Suburban Capitalism! The pressures will soon be
finding themselves on local, county, state and the
Federal Governments with great loss of revenues and
the natural reaction of reducing Public Services.

In the meantime, our local paper is reflecting the
dyer consequences of the sub-prime meltdown, the worst
of pumping up Pensions and Wages for Public employees
because they thought "times were good"! Well, we are
broken hearted to see the retrenchment by the Daily
Pilot and the LA Times regarding their decision to
reduce publication frequency! Even during the Great
Depression....the newspaper struggled on and kept the
publication of the news going. It sends a bad message
to cease publication even one day a week..when the name
of the publication includes the word: "Daily" and
especially when this is during the "silly political
season" and no less in an National Election year. A
variety of major political personalities visit the
Newport/Mesa area and many make their appearances on
Sunday's. That means that most people will not know
what happened until the Tuesday!

We encourage the Daily Pilot and the LA Times to
re-think their strictly economic decision and remind them
of their never ending responsibility to the communities
involved.

Come on Daily Plot.....we have supported you...for these
many years...how about returning the favor?