10/29/2009: Check out the ICCharbinger.com instead of PJstar.com

Because I get most my job hits on peoriahelpwanted.com anyway.

I can no longer save you the trip to ICC with my opinion pieces and movie reviews that get printed there. A bummer, because sometimes I feel it's easier to fulfill my, "well I at least blogged today" goal each day by cutting and pasting the original Word documents. With some of my movie reviews being poorly edited, I kind of took pride in "Save you a trip to the Hill" movie reviews on Russ's Online Home - ROHmobile.com, but when I see that only three people have voted on the latest web poll at iccharbinger.com it leads me to believe that there is a need to promote the paper.

No, I cannot say I read all of The Harbinger. I usually just skip to the opinion section and the A&E so I can get myself pissed and ready to write. But the fact is that the best reporting in the area may be coming from ICC's newspaper rather than the Journal Star.

I should say, the possibility of the best news coverage comes from the Harbinger. If we pay it more attention, they may feel encouraged to cover more than what will be featured in the print edition. Namely, local coverage of stories.

I realize that outside the 312, Illinois is a red state, so the Journal Star caters to it. That is probably why my responses to the statement of ignorant readers of the Star never got posted. The problem with the red state attitude is that younger people's voices will not be heard. These voices that want to be heard tend to be those discontent with the area while those who do not care if their voices are heard will continue reading the Star and never question anything written, and the area will never become bicolored.

If we encourage the college newspapers (including Bradley), maybe attitudes will change. The Journal Star can still be given attention. We all glance over the front page, but we should not pay it as much mind at least in terms of the websites because important issues needs to be covered by writers with more opened minds.

Those minds are at ICCharbinger.com