The CotoBuzz Journal, Community Journalism

October 2008 ISSUE

We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!

LETTERS

Did they, or did they not?

September 16, 2008

On <a recent> Channel 6 News program, Cheryl Walker, reporter for the Laguna Wood Globe stressed three times: "Never, ever, in the years I have been here, has the PCM staff, or any group from the boards, gone over our heads to the Register to try to control editorial content in the Globe or the web." Wrong, Cheryl, read this:

Let's go back to the Third Board Regular Meeting of 16 May, 2006 In his Chairman's report President Moos commented on the renewal of the Management Agreement, reported on the recently held All Boards/All Directors Board Meeting, and commented on letters published in the newspaper as follows: "…Several of us got in touch with the editor of the Globe, our weekly magazine, because the tone of some of the letters that were published, we felt was not appropriate."

This was a definite attempt by the President of the Third Laguna Hills Mutual to control the editorial content in the Globe and also threaten our constitutional right of Freedom of Speech. with all due respect to Cheryl, we have to remember that she is just the messenger, does not set policy, and is subjected to extreme pressure from above.- Laguna Woods Village, Joe Fischler

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