Greensboro 101

The News & Record shows no interest in initiating anything creative or original online. The main page of its website is just as likely to feature headlines linking to some click bait about a far-away nothing as it is to anything of local interest. Its local reporting is down to two or three original stories a day and most of those are stenography — having let go the gutsy Margaret Moffett and gutsy Susan Ladd to retain dispassionate writers who specialize in the grand equivocation of regurgitating he said/she said — but that’s another story. Here is how we know that the News & Record really has completely capitulated to a destiny of digital incompetence.

These forums are not becoming heated just because people want to blow off steam. People are coming to these forums because they perceive a need for action and, just as in the past, the atmosphere is getting raucous because elected officials are side-stepping concerns and remain immune to facts brought to their attention.

Dick Barron of the News & Record reported yesterday that “Greensboro ranks second least-expensive for homeowners in the state.” That’s not true and, despite the error being brought to the attention of the reporter and publisher yesterday morning, the article remains uncorrected.

These questions are fundamental. Without honest and accurate answers, any efforts by leaders to proceed with policy or personnel decisions would be half-baked.