How often do Congressional hearings take place in the Low Country? Once every decade or so? And how relevant might hearings on the new Boeing plant be to the future of the area?Yet the news articles about this event, thanks to the P&C's editors' deliberate choice, landed on page 10A.
Instead, readers can revel in (or revile) the half-baked opinions of an unqualified, provincial pontificator named Brian Hicks, deliberately placed on the front page above the fold. Don't you wonder how the two reporters who actually wrote the news reacted to this travesty?
The News and Courier becaume the Post and Courier when it combined with the Evening Post. Finally we understand the symbolism of its name change. The placement of Hicks's column equals putting the lead editorial above the fold and pretending it's not an editorial.
It's one decision to play up local instead of national news on the front page. It's a horse of a different color to replace news with opinion.
Saturday's hard-copy edition proves that the P&C is no longer a newspaper.
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