My hometown newspaper's New Year's Day editorial - from the Editor!

[StellaBlue]

May the new year be better

By Phillip Hamilton
The Paris News

Published January 01, 2006

(snip)
. . .

Just days after our stop in Amarillo, the young man “woke up” from the coma he was in, and by Friday he was reported to be walking. He’s expected to be transferred to a Dallas hospital early this week, where he will undergo rehab. The prayers of many people in Paris were answered when he took those first steps.

A memorial service last week for Moran in California became a celebration of life when the young man’s parents, as well as several other people who attended the service, committed their lives to Jesus.

I know it’s not politically correct to report on religious conversions, but I really don’t care. There is no greater news to share than when a person accepts Jesus.

And that brings me to the third story — a story that played out on our front porch swing a few months ago. It was there that my second son also committed his life to Jesus. In my book, that event was the top story of 2005.

So here’s to the new year ... may she be a somewhat better than the old one, but there are a few moments of 2005 that I’ll treasure forever. Happy New Year!

http://theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=24383

[niyad]

1. is this supposed to be a religious paper? and he knows this HOW?

[StellaBlue]

4. no, this is the long-established local newspaper

I worked there once on Xmas break in college - different people running it then, though. This guy, to steal a line from Jon Stewart, needs to go to journalism school. Someplace that doesn't have a Protestant denomination in its name. :eyes: It's consistently scary, week after week. Not only can I not believe that there are people like that in my hometown, where I spent 11 formative years of my young life and escaped unbaptized, but I cannot believe that they are the editors of newspapers! Mind boggling! But then I lived in Europe too long and I am ruined for American culture now. haha

[VolcanoJen]

2. Ummmm.... oh, my.

Wow. How objective of the editor.

Please tell me there's an indie paper somewhere in your town?

Was this paper ever a good one, or does it serve as the usual fishwrap?

[StellaBlue]

9. I'd say it's largely 'respectable'...

But this editor I had never heard of until I came back to Texas from the UK this summer... and I read the occasional edition when I am at my parents'. It's weird, weird, weird. But, no, it is not a 'bad' paper (just not super-professional, being small-town - lots of misspellings and typos and inane headlines), and it's not a 'religious' paper. Everything around here is just religious by default.

[GrumpyGreg]

3. Unbelievable.I have never,ever seen anything like that in

a newspaper unless it was a religious one.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Nor have I.

Thing is, I'd usually just skip over a round-up like that, if it came in the form of a letter to the editor, or maybe some coworker or something.

But, it's more than a little scary when the EDITOR OF A FRICKING NEWSPAPER WRITES, "There is no greater news to share than when a person accepts Jesus."

Really? No greater news? And you get to keep your job as a FRICKING NEWSPAPER EDITOR?

[liberaltrucker]

5. Self Delete

[aquart]

7. Does this man need a catscan?

Is he working on a brain tumor?

Or does he think idiot George gave him permission to be as fanatic as he wants?

And my sympathy to that second son.

[noamnety]

8. He needs to revisit this claim:

"The resignations of two reporters left the staff short handed for about half the year. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the outstanding staffers who remained, there was no decline in the quality of the product we produce each day"

[zbdent]

10. Comas are different from "liquified brains" . . .

and how long was he in the coma?

Don't want to give the idiot any extra hits he really doesn't deserve . . .