Jonathan Morris, U.S. Army Ranger, Ret. and Rowan County Sheep Baron
♦The Salisbury Post looks like its just about out of gas. Because of mismanagement and extremely poor editorial decisions the Post has betrayed its readers by becoming little more than the city of Salisbury’s newsletter. It lost all respect out here and even in much of Salisbury. Its even lost respect in Raleigh. It used to be a decent newspaper if you can remember the days of Mr. Hurly. Now its taken up defending the most corrupt city government in North Carolina and our pathetic Rowan-Salisbury Schools System. Hardly a day goes by without the Salisbury Post attacking the one successful government in Rowan County–Rowan County’s. All of this attack is based solely on preserving Salisbury’s dying fiefdom: city hall, a school system causing flight from the county, the downtown merchants, Downtown Salisbury, Inc., the historic preservationists with no actual history to preserve, and the Salisbury Post.
Everybody knows the Post is dangling by a thread. Its a cat sneeze away from going down the tubes. Last year USA Today dropped the Post from their printing roster and moved on to greener pastures in Greensboro. They got tired of the Post screwing up their plates and shipping badly printed USA Todays. The Post dumped their third shift. The Post was doing badly even before USA Today skipped.
Look at all the symptoms of a newspaper falling out of the sky. Their beat up news boxes are still filled at the end of the day. The gas station mini-marts with piles of Salisbury Posts bound up and ready to ship back. If you drive into Salisbury, the Rushco guy tells me he sells more “Slammers”, the mug shot tabloid, than Posts. On the loading dock at the Post you see tons of Posts being shipped to the recycler. You don’t even see this rag laying on lawns anymore–just their annoying ”Market Place Miner”. Tell you what, people around here are tired of picking the Miner off their lawns.
The final nail in the Salisbury Post’s coffin was their price rise to ten dollars a month on line. That NOBODY signed up for. If anyone bothers reading the Salisbury Post, they read it for free by going into the Incognito mode on their Chrome Browser or in the Privacy mode on Internet Explorer. You see the propaganda rag as if you were a subscriber.
The Salisbury Post has gotten so bad I don’t even buy it anymore on Thursdays for its TV guide insert which is usually so poorly done they consistently list major football games as TBA (To Be Announced). I can go to my TWC internet cable guide and find out what games are playing. And the Post is so backwards they don’t even list major cable channels like Fox Sports1 and Fox Sports2. Pathetic.
Apparently the Post just doesn’t get it. Most people see right through the Post’s daily attacks on the county commissioners to get them out of the way to plant their own stiffs like Gene Miller and Richard Miller. The Post’s game plan is to nail the county taxpayers for Salisbury’s numbskull build it and they will come projects. This ball game is played out. The Post has made “Salisbury Haters” out of most of the county. Stay out of our pockets Salisbury—ripoff someone else.
Besides being a propaganda rag for Salisbury, the Post is notorious for bad reporting. Salisbury cops regularly laugh at Post’s alleged police reporters. Shavonne Potts and previously Nathan Hardin regularly wrote up the arresting officers as perps and the criminals as arresting officers. Hardin shows little improvement since they tossed this knucklehead at county politics. This hack regularly twists stories, leaves out pertinent information, misattributes quotes, and has likely never darkened a seat in journalistic ethics class. County Commission Chairman Jim Sides doesn’t return Hardin’s calls. Nathan is a perfect fit for the Post.
Someday in the very near future the world is going to come crashing down on the Post. Its an awful paper. The clock is ticking.
