UPDATE: 6/19, 6:50 PM — What? No big story, no banner headline, no headline at all? I’m stunned, shocked, and super-surprised. Although I would not purchase a copy of the Register myself, I spent at least an hour this afternoon persuading a drunk in Starin Park to let me see his copy. (He’s apparently one of the Register‘s most distinguished subscribers.)
I’ll wait for next week, to see if there is a free-standing insert in the paper. By the way, if anyone at Southern Lakes Publishing would like to use my headline (see below), go right ahead — it’s on me.
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I have not yet seen the latest issue of the Register. It’s scheduled to hit newsstands and bird cages across Whitewater today.
Here’s my question: How prominently will the Register celebrate re-accreditation of the Whitewater Police Department? I have already noted the several ways in which re-accreditation is empty and a diversion from addressing real problems in the department.
Still, the Register coincidentally ran a multi-part series on our police force just before the accreditation team arrived in town, so they must be willing to devote copy space to the accreditation announcement.
How much space, and what will the headline say?
Here’s my pick: