Has any one else noticed that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has abandoned its coverage of St. Charles County? While the St. Charles bureau ignored real news, played favorites, lacked any semblance of journalistic ethics and mainly provided PR for its advertisers, at least we had a few stories to read. John Sonderegger's "Talk of Charleytown" column appeared 3 times a week and since he accepted a buy out the Post has not replaced him. Sonderegger would occasionally cover a council meeting and when he reported on what transpired at the meeting you could at least be confident a meeting really did occur.
Has the slowdown in the once booming housing market caused the Post to lose ad revenue in St. Charles? Has this lost revenue caused the Post to lose interest in the area? Or could the Post be in the process of a long overdue restructuring of the St. Charles bureau? Lets hope so. And if the Post does come back lets hope it brings with it a real investigative reporter. Such a reporter would would have a great opportunity to do what I thought most of journalists wanted to do; make a difference.
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