[Cedwards38]

I see the thread about the Villages News online service got closed. Who makes that call and based on what criteria?

A wise newspaper editor once set me straight when I contacted him to complain about lack of coverage of a local public school event. He said when things go well, that's not news because that is what is supposed to happen, and does happen nearly every day. News is when things do not go well or as they are supposed to happen.

SOME OBSERVATIONS:

(1) Seems that every time a thread gets the least bit controversial on TOTV it gets closed, because, heaven forbid, we might have different opinions and it would sound like argument, and someone might not be able to control their temper.

(2) I love the Dailly Sun, and will continue to subscribe to it for as long as I am a resident of TV, but they do not provide thorough reporting of the infrequent darker side of our community (sex on the square, neighbor against neighbor violence, alcohol and drug abuse, crime against residents, troublesome children living with residents, mental instability of some residents, etc). Truthfully, they do not provide any reporting of the darker side of our community. Do you want to know these things?

(3) WVLG AM. See # 2.

(4) The Villages is a wonderful place to live, but it is not perfect, and I do not want to be censored from information about our community, or the world, that some consider to be inconsistent with the model of perfection.

(5) It's not trashing our community to report the truth. That's what news people do. Maybe a headline might seem sensationalized, or not, but the real service of the media is telling the facts of what actually happened.

(6) Let's not "shoot the messenger." When we are exposed to something we don't want to hear, it is all too easy to blame the source of the information. The bad things in life are not because someone told you about them, but rather because they actually happened, and it's not the fault of the news media. If your community, your government, your political party, your political candidate, your religion, or your life in general is bad, it's not the fault of the source that told you about it. Just receive the facts and judge the facts, and make up your own mind.

(7) Finally, the world always seems biased to those who disagree.