Speak Out

To the voters of Calhoun County:

I wish to try to thank you for the trust you gave my grandson, George Edward Salmon, when you gave him your precious vote in the June 6 primary for probate judge of Calhoun County.

Should he win the office of probate judge, I know that he will treat each and every one of you the way he would want to be treated himself.

I know him as an honest, hard-working individual with a deep love for God, his family, his country and the wonderful county and state in which we have the privilege of living.

Again, I say ... thank you, thank you, thank you.

Eulyne C. Dobson
Anniston

What The Star will teach

It appears Ayers finally realizes that the bulk of the national media has lost connection with the people they serve. However, Ayers refuses to concede that the “journalism of Main Street,” The Star, et al., has likewise succumbed to the same loss of connection. One can understand the anguish of Ayers and main-line journalists in accepting the realization that all aspects of the national media are in a state of rapid decline, having been exposed and their “thunder” seized by Internet bloggers.

Also, it appears that Ayers is engaging in a futile attempt at salvaging some semblance of a failed national as well as “Main Street” newspaper medium via the planned establishment of the nation’s first “teaching newspaper,” wherein journalism master’s degree candidates will be “learning and writing about life as it’s lived — not out of the textbook.”

One would have to concede that journalism students at The Star will definitely learn of the stark dilemma that plagues present-day journalism, and they will learn through observing in real time the ongoing demise of the national as well as “Main Street” media. They’ll also begin to understand that the reason for the demise of these media is that they vehemently, and with no compunction, violate the rules of journalistic integrity.

Once the students learn that “Big Journalism” media is a leftist bullhorn and that The Star’s “Main Street journalism” amounts to an H. Brandt Ayers throne from which all things Ayers are regurgitated ad infinitum with the unceasing name-dropping, shaming of Southern values and the general spectacle of the Ayers carpetbagger persona, they will know that their futile efforts amount to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, and they’ll abandon the national media ship for the blogger lifeboats.

Armond “Si” Simmons
Pell City