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EXAMINER EDITORIAL
Debut Edition
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1
September 11, 2007

A Contract with our Communities

Print is dead. That’s the conventional wisdom these days. We don’t embrace that mindless mantra. Here’s how we hope to shatter it:
We’re here to publish community newspapers. To tell you what’s happening within the corridors of your village or town hall. To tell you what’s happening within the doors of your school buildings. Within the white lines of your athletic fields. To tell you what’s happening within the unchecked crevices of your neighborhoods. We’re here to write true stories. The true stories of Mount Kisco and Pleasantville.
We’re here to photograph your triumphs—to chronicle your tragedies, pay tribute to your good deeds, and capture your misdeeds.
To examine—thoroughly investigate—your community’s nooks and crannies. To unearth the evasive truth. To offer you a mirror, shaped as a newspaper.
We’re here to solicit advertising. And we’re not ashamed to say it. We’re here to say that we want your business ventures to succeed. We’re also here to say we will unflinchingly spotlight our advertisers’ missteps. We’re here to support you. And keep an eye on you. We’re here to say journalistic integrity and business integrity can be achieved simultaneously.
We’re not here to feverishly update blogs on a content-obsessed Web site. We’re not here to stream video. Or podcast. Or any other distractions from our basic and simple goal: Report the news. And report it in a way you’ve been missing. In a way you’ve been craving. Craving for too long.
We are here to hear from you. We want to print your angry letters. Even—or perhaps especially—when your angry letters are directed at us. And we want to know if you’re angry at your elected officials. Your police department. Your school district. We want to print your praiseful letters. Not ones about us. Ones about your elected officials. Your police department. Your school district.
We want you to tell us what you think is news. We might not always agree. We always want to listen.
We’re also here to have fun. To print a weekly commuter column. To publish a snarky TV column. To tell you about good food, good wine, good movies. To remind you in our community calendar where to have fun. And where to have it near home.
Newspapers aren’t dead. They’ll only perish if those who run them suffocate them. We’re not here to synergize. We’re here to energize.
We’re here to make your week a bit more entertaining. More informative. More substantive. We’re here to go back to basics. And we’re here to stay.
Lastly, we’re here to say this is the first and last time you’ll hear about us.
We’re ready to hear from you.
Starting now.
Write back: examinerletters@theexaminernews.com