Thousands of
people in Reading have a connection with the Dominican Republic. Many of them might
be interested that Vice President Joe Biden is going to meet DR President Danilo Medina next month.
But they
wouldn’t have found out in the Reading
Eagle, as far as I can tell. A Dominican man told me about the news. I don’t remember
seeing it in the local newspaper, and could find mention of neither event using
the Eagle website’s search engine.
The Census
says Reading has about 9,600 people of Dominican heritage, give or take 1,000.
That’s about one in eight city residents.
Why would the paper ignore the
interests of such a big part of the community while giving us headlines such as
(from Monday) “Workers break concrete pour record” and “Abbas signals
flexibility on refugees”?
If the reason is, they don’t buy newspapers, well,
why not try to attract them by acknowledging them in your publication?
[How did
WFMZ scoop the Eagle on 265 jobs to be lost because Surgical Specialties, in Exeter, plans to move to Mexico?]
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