The headline article in the Times the other day tells us a lot about their sad state. Harvey Girls historical group explores El Paso Union Depot told us about a local group that works to preserve the history of some waitresses.
The Harvey Girls were an interesting part of our history. I am glad to see someone working to preserve their history. Evidently none of them are alive today so what we had was an article about a history club.
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
But the headline article? Certainly I enjoyed reading it. However I would have expected to see it in one of the local sections.
Evidently the Times is so hard up for reporting that articles about a chicken from San Diego and a history club have to be promoted to the front page in order to fill the page.
Over the years we have seen the size of the newspaper sheets shrink. We now see advertising occupying a significant portion of the front page.
What we do not see is much reporting. Neither do we see articles from the news wires that might tell us about international, national, or state news. I guess that using articles from those sources would cost money.
On the local scene we have many issues that we might like to learn more about. That would require the Times reporters doing research instead of printing press releases for our local institutions.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
Do you think there is not much going on around here that is newsworthy??
Lot going on around us though….
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When you take the approach to mostly ignore the political corruption here, you are left talking about Harvey Girls. For this you get journalistic awards which tells you something about the state of journalism these days.
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After Lorenzo Garcia got sent up the river, Bob Moore couldn’t find anything else to write about.
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