To the editor: How unhappy that the Salinas Californian’s solely signal of life is the paid obituaries that run within the Gannett-owned newspaper, which now not employs any reporters.
The free press enabled Colonial radicals to a brand new type of authorities. Our republic’s founders had been sensible in together with safety of freedom of the press. It was the one business that they particularly protected within the Structure. They knew this revolutionary authorities wanted knowledgeable residents.
When the Salinas Californian and tons of of different newspapers cease offering native information, the American experiment comes nearer to its finish. In a time of latest expertise, we should discover new methods to guard native newspapers.
A method is to inform California legislators to enact Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks’ (D-Oakland) California Journalism Preservation Act and members of Congress to enact the Journalism Competitors and Preservation Act of 2022. We’d like foundations to help weak papers, a fund to supply free newspapers to college students, and free tuition for journalism college students.
Sure, democracy dies in darkness. We’d like a wholesome press and knowledgeable residents.
Lloyd A. Dent, Northridge
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To the editor: What a tragic story concerning the demise of journalism on the Salinas Californian.
My household and I lived in Salinas within the late Nineteen Fifties, and I delivered that paper to native residents Monday by way of Saturday (no Sunday paper was printed). The paper was at all times straightforward to ship from my canvas luggage hooked on the handlebars of my bike and thrown from the sidewalk.
The one exception was the massive version printed when the rodeo was on the town. For that, my dad and brothers had to assist me fill a number of cardboard packing containers. The paper needed to be delivered to every porch by hand from the again of my dad’s station wagon.
It’s robust to lose one thing on the middle of such an ideal reminiscence.
Dave Schwien, Seal Seaside
