Editorial bashing SCCC stuck in park
Steve Reilly
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: Opinion
There are so many things wrong with the editorial published by the New Jersey Herald on Oct. 16, 2009 titled "It's not easy being green, but it should not be rewarded", it is embarrassing. Sussex County Community College is named specifically as an offender of the "carbon burners" who are being unjustly prosecuted in a new age of "GC"
witch hunts that are aimed at polluters and smokers. The editors either have nothing else worthwhile to print in the newspaper or are so far out of touch with reality that they have forgotten what damage biased journalism can do to a society.
I hope they are just out of material to write about, because if the editorial staff at the Herald truly believes what they wrote on the pages of the daily newspaper then American main stream media is as dead as critics proclaim. Let me be as clear as I can, the Herald staff has a responsibility to publish news stories and editorials that are fair and balanced, and in the editorial tradition of taking a stance to better the community as a whole. Let me repeat that very important point, they have a responsibility to BETTER a community with the editorials.
In the editorial published on Friday the editorial staff questioned the decision by SCCC officials to reserve parking spaces for "green cars" and connected the college's decision to create the "GC" parking spaces with the American Cancer Society's movement to make public areas "smoke free", accusing the SCCC administration of "setting up a class system based on type of car driven."
In the words of the Herald editors, "Huh?"
Any argument that I can write here would seem stupid. It is fact that second hand smoke in confined areas increases the risk of cancer in non-smokers, pollution from motor vehicle emissions increases the risk of cancer. The pollution from car exhausts also contributes to global warming, acid rain and the general decay of the natural world. Any long winded scientific data or heart wrenching sentimental story I could use as an argument against tobacco smoking and pollution would seem as stupid as the Herald's arguments against reserved parking for alternative fueled motor vehicles.
witch hunts that are aimed at polluters and smokers. The editors either have nothing else worthwhile to print in the newspaper or are so far out of touch with reality that they have forgotten what damage biased journalism can do to a society.
I hope they are just out of material to write about, because if the editorial staff at the Herald truly believes what they wrote on the pages of the daily newspaper then American main stream media is as dead as critics proclaim. Let me be as clear as I can, the Herald staff has a responsibility to publish news stories and editorials that are fair and balanced, and in the editorial tradition of taking a stance to better the community as a whole. Let me repeat that very important point, they have a responsibility to BETTER a community with the editorials.
In the editorial published on Friday the editorial staff questioned the decision by SCCC officials to reserve parking spaces for "green cars" and connected the college's decision to create the "GC" parking spaces with the American Cancer Society's movement to make public areas "smoke free", accusing the SCCC administration of "setting up a class system based on type of car driven."
In the words of the Herald editors, "Huh?"
Any argument that I can write here would seem stupid. It is fact that second hand smoke in confined areas increases the risk of cancer in non-smokers, pollution from motor vehicle emissions increases the risk of cancer. The pollution from car exhausts also contributes to global warming, acid rain and the general decay of the natural world. Any long winded scientific data or heart wrenching sentimental story I could use as an argument against tobacco smoking and pollution would seem as stupid as the Herald's arguments against reserved parking for alternative fueled motor vehicles.
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