Tom Noyes’ Young for Mayor Letter Rejected by the News Journal
From the FB page of Tom Noyes:
The News Journal isn’t going to run this letter I submitted in support of Eugene Young, so I’ll just post it here.
To the editor:
Having served in Wilmington city government, I’ve worked directly with every one of the challengers in the mayoral primary, and genuinely respect them all. But I’ve concluded that it’s time for more than incremental change; we need a 21st century mayor, which is why I’m supporting Eugene Young.
Eugene has assembled a top-notch team, and together they have developed detailed, substantive policy plans on public safety, community revitalization, and economic development. (You can read them at eugeneyoungformayor.com.) He has prepared a well-thought-out plan for his first 100 days in office so his administration will get off to a fast start tackling the city’s toughest problems.
Eugene has proven to be an effective change agent his entire career. He served with Cory Booker, first as mayor of Newark, NJ, and then as senator, and knows first-hand what it takes to challenge the status quo and revitalize a moribund city government. He founded a non-profit to help young people succeed in school and college. As advocacy director for the Delaware Center for Justice, he’s leading the way for criminal justice reform in Delaware—an issue that too many of Wilmington’s leaders have neglected.
Eugene is running a citywide campaign, with a growing cadre of volunteers from every neighborhood. He has assembled a great team and done his homework in preparing to govern. I am convinced he’s ready to lead our city, and I’m encouraging my friends and neighbors to elect Eugene Young as our next mayor.
Tom Noyes
#StandTallwithEugene
#EugeneYoungforMayor
#voteYoung
They aren’t publishing any election letters in these days before the primary. He may have just gotten it in too late.
Keep reaching DL. You can’t delay the inevitable.
You should have sent it in earlier dude….don’t blame the Journal because you were late in the game on it.
Why do you assume he didn’t submit the letter in time? I see nothing here to indicate when it was submitted.
The fact is that there is no TNJ editorial department anymore. The sports editor runs the editorial page now. So anyone pretending to know how that operation works is whistling in the dark.
Or maybe because it’s a pretty standard (even boring) letter than hits talking points that have already been hit a dozen times before? You think maybe?
To assume that the letter was rejected for some nefarious reason is also an assumption. I’m just pointing out a fact. I agree completely with you that the editorial pages there are horrible. To put two sports bros in charge is journalistic malpractice.
Agreed. Putting young people into an important, high-visibility job that they’re not qualified to do is poor management indeed, bordering on malpractice.
They’re both grown men. Just utterly unqualified with no news experience whatsoever.
That wasn’t me. There is no such thing as “malpractice” in journalism.
It’s a decision by the Gannett people to pare the actual content down to a nub. I notice there’s still plenty of money to pay off the no-value-added corporate structure, though.
So use a name other than “anonymous.”
To say there’s no such thing as malpractice in journalism is stupid.
It’s not a legal thing like in law or medicine, but journalists continually hold themselves up to lofty standards and preach that they are doing the Lord’s work of righting wrongs and speaking truth to power and afflicting the comfortable and telling businesspeople and government officials how to do their jobs better – when in fact they’re just a bunch of ordinary random dudes and women with degrees in writing stuff who don’t do math and don’t read their own product and can’t bother to run spellcheck and are running a failed business even deeper into the ground. How is that dichotomy not mal-something?
I was able to get a letter in the paper for candidate because it was sent in weeks ago….Stop the conspiracies !!!!!!!.
I’m pretty sure it was rejected because it has the word “the” in it….
@SW: Well, for starters, you haven’t even distinguished between the journalists and management. Your understanding of the trade is so lacking that I’m not sure where to begin to educate you. Given your location, I’m not sure you would take to it anyway.