THE DEMISE OF THE BUFFALO NEWS OR THE BUFFALO NEWS HAS CHOSEN THEIR FINAL ALBATROSS

After reading today’s (3/16/06) article on the front page of the BUFFALO NEWS, it is quite evident that the NEWS has chosen Dr. Satish Mohan, Supervisor of the Town of Amherst, as its final ideologue to sink or swim with; their last being E.C. Executive Joel Giambra.

With both readership and advertising inches decreasing, the NEWS is taking a last stand to increase its circulation by the overt support of the Amherst Supervisor in keeping up a barrage of articles about the Supervisor.

What the NEWS is doing is picking up the same chant that the Supervisor has used from the beginning; everyone is against me because I rock the boat. However, the NEWS didn’t list any of his accomplishments in the article because he doesn’t have any. His first 100 days are coming up; lets publish all the accomplishments! (Matter of fact, that reminds me, where is that 100 days of accomplishments that Billy OH! Promised us?)

The BUFFALO NEWS supported Joel Giambra in the same exact way 6 years ago and it helped increase the circulation. Giambra was the fair-haired boy then; he could do no wrong. The circulation went up as well as advertising (and of course the prices). However, the NEWS chose a horse that caused a lot of trouble but had some very “good ideas that should be tested”.

Now after 18 months of political terror, the NEWS still hasn’t said Giambra was a wrong choice, but you just have look to see what he has done almost single handily to the county.

Now we are seeing the Mohan propaganda blitz in full action. First the printing of one article every day, then every couple of days, then once a week; either editorial, columns or letters, and now finally publishing a front page white wash that sugar coats almost all the Supervisors mistakes and makes it sound like he is being picked on all the time by a disgruntled minority.

If you have followed the NEWS editorials and policies over the past 50 or so years, you have to put some of the blame on the NEWS for part of the deterioration of Buffalo and Erie County. What has happened in Buffalo is now going to happen in the suburbs and the NEWS will have to share in the blame game.

Why? Because the NEWS is going to try to run the Town of Amherst through it’s paper like it tried to run the City and the County. The AMHERST BEE at one time thought they could do the same thing. However, they were smarter. First they stopped doing political endorsements of candidates and then they hired reporters to objectively write their stories. The AMHERST RECORD was a short-lived (no great loss, think of the trees that will be saved) piece of yellow journalism whose integrity could be bought for the price of an ad or an inside (so called) scoop or even by “dating” their reporter.

In the next 4 years, you will find the BUFFALO NEWS reduced to the loftiness of a community newspaper. By then, most of the readers will be reading E news because of their lack of credibility. The BUFFALO NEWS has become a joke!