The Free Press

 

Ideas are meant to be shared, but is it really necessary to cut-and-paste news stories from other publications and try to pass off the collection as a newspaper? If people were looking for story archives, they could go to one of the many public libraries. Al-Ameen is a paper that says it serves the Muslim community in Vancouver, but is it really fulfilling its duty to cover issues that are important to Vancouver? The editorial isn’t even written by the actual editor of the paper. It was pulled from the website Zawaj.com. The publisher and editors have made clear in a disclaimer that they cannot be held responsible for the content of their paper. And why should they? The views expressed aren’t their own anyway.

 

 

The Pacific Seniors’ Review chooses to write articles that would have been important to senior citizens 20 years ago, when they had nothing else to do besides plan their funerals. Senior citizens are more active and full of life than they have ever been. They grew up in one of the most politically progressive decades of the 20th century: the ’60s. Why would they waste their time caring about safe barbequing techniques? They could be reading about what senior citizens are doing with their new-found freedom from the clutches of the daily grind of 9-to-5 work. Why bore them to death with practical tips on how to boost their RSPs?