The Columbian newspaper practices a rank hypocrisy rarely seen anywhere else in the area, and it's time for it to end.
In today's editorial, Laird (or whoever it is) whines about the possible waste of $46,000 if everything in a report's conclusions about the Vancouver Police Department morale issues were not addressed.
But if the report is not respected for its objectivity and expertise, then the whole thing will become an imprudent use of $46,440 the city spent on it; a waste of four months Matrix Consulting Group of Palo Alto, Calif., spent compiling the valuable data; and a troubling disregard for 139 pages of observations and advice.
They snivel about that when the CRC "study," with it's pre-ordained outcome, has wasted 10's of millions... the same study that has wasted, literally, tens of millions of dollars in an ongoing to ram and unneeded, unwanted, wasteful economic black hole that will vaporize increasingly scarce transportation dollars at an unimaginable rate.
It's ironic that the Columbian website censors the word "waste" and it's variations. (Try it. And mention of the word "wasted," for example, shows up as "******.") It's completely bizarre, but given all of the monumental waste this disgrace to journalism supports now and has supported in the past, it's not surprising that they want to avoid the embarrassment of the constant reminders of their perfidy by the public paying attention.
This newspaper supports the waste of billions of dollars... yet they express concern over, relatively speaking, a few thousand.
Is it any wonder they face fiscal disaster? Is it any wonder that so few people actually are willing to fork over money to be insulted both personally and intellectually by a group wholly owned by the downtown mafia and city hall.
Who in their right mind would support such a rag... or those who advertise in it?
What a blight and disgrace on our community. Respond with a position that oppose their agenda... and see how long that idea reminds visible.
This despicable pile of pulp fears ideas that oppose their agenda. And as a result... they will silence them.
That didn't work for Das Reich or Pravda Izvestia, either.
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