Published on Monday, January 25, 2010
By Daily Bulletin Staff Writer
In a recent column, Executive Editor Frank Pine mentioned the words "The public's right to know" and I couldn't read further.
The press in the United States has beat that dead horse to a fare-thee-well. Who gave me the right? As I sit in Upland twiddling my thumbs, I do not have the right to be told vital information about a bomber on a plane. Why should I be told the intimate details of his errors?
If we have the right to any information, a good suggestion would be if the press would keep us informed of the bipartisan committee that Congress mandated last spring. This committee is to investigate the causes of the financial meltdown that gave our bankers and brokers billions and billions of dollars in schemes bred by greed and corruption. And left millions of Americans without homes they were misled into purchasing.
Back in 1929, a gentleman by the name of Ferdinand Pecora led a Senate committee to investigate the stock market crash
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