Your voices were heard! /mxl7BulOPq- BucksCountyBeacon August 5, 2022Īnd let’s be clear, this is not the editorial board staying above the fray, it is them obscuring it. They finally reported on recently elected committeewoman & insurrectionist Dawn Bancroft. We want to thank our readers who participated in our Action Alert! & wrote leadership. I’ve raised alarms about the two newspapers’ refusal to call out Republican extremism so much that I must sound like a broken record, but I am going to keep playing this song until they finally stop this journalistic malpractice. That didn’t happen, of course.Īnd speaking of the school board majority, this leads to the newspapers’ too little, too late editorial’s first major problem: it takes the politics out of what is a very political situation. To begin with, the newspapers’ editors, if they believe in the 1st Amendment, should have as an institution stated its strong opposition in an editorial to this censorship policy before it was voted on and ultimately passed by the majority members of the school board. The Bucks County Courier Times Editorial. He also said it amounted to putting lipstick on a pig.Īfter reading the editorial, he was right about one of his assertions. “Are you sure the PR firm didn’t write this?” the Central Bucks East alumni asked. I hadn’t, yet, but I was pretty sure I had just found what I was going to write about today. Bucks County Beacon reader Ken Miller reached out to me Sunday morning asking if I had read The Bucks County Courier Times/The Intelligencer editorial on the Central Bucks School District’s new book banning policy.

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