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Media Starts And Fans East
Haven, Conn. Taco Dinner
Flames
With
everything that is going on in the world today, the news media
is making a huge thing out of a taco dinner comment, made by East
Haven, Conn. Mayor, Joseph Maturo: Click Here
I
suppose that this is what happens when news sources have the
need to fill up around the clock news slots. And it sure
must be hard on them to find something to take the heat off of the
current White House administration. But starting a fire and then
fanning the flames, creating news, instead of just reporting, is
simply bad journalism.
East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo, Jr. is
a life long resident of East Haven, Connecticut. He is a
Vietnam vet, who received three Medals of Merit serving
for seventeen years in the East Haven Fire
Department and only resigned, due to a work
related injury. Mayor Maturo is a member of the Vietnam
Veterans of America, the American Legion and the East Haven Lions
Club. He served on the Public Relations Committee of the Special
Olympics World Games, when they were held in New Haven and has even
served as a substitute teacher in East Haven Public
schools. And of course, the major has a public office
history, as well.
Mayor Maturo, simply put, has not
lived the type of life of a person who would want to bring
havoc on his own community. Clearly the mayor is a man who
loves his country and community, not a man who would seek to tear
it up and cause division. But we cannot say the same for the
media today. The media will do almost anything for a story;
even create one out of nothing.
While being questioned about
four police officers, who have been accused of treating
local East Haven Latinos poorly, a news reporter asked a rather
odd question to the mayor. The news reporter asked the mayor
what he planned to do for Latinos that night, to which the
Mayor responded that he would eat a taco dinner. Three things
came to my mind, when I heard the mayor's response. 1) He
clearly has no problem with eating Latino food. 2) He would
break bread with them. 3) That reporter's question was
stupid!
Seriously, it was a stupid question
that the mayor was presented with, after clearly what would have
been a long and trying day. What was he to say he would do
that night? Take them all out for a night on the town, to make it up
to them? The reporter should have asked the mayor
if he had any thoughts for the future, on how to heal
things with the town's Latino community. The
reporter could have even followed up with asking the better
question. But he saw something that he could build off of
and chose that instead. Once again, the media has only
made things worse. I guess it's all in a day's work.
It seems
so obvious to me that the mayor’s comment said how he felt
about the reporter, not the community’s
Latinos.
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Debra J.M. Smith 01-25-12
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