Orleans Hub provides service in reporting news, giving forum to debate issues

Editor:

Happy Birthday to the Orleans Hub. Newspapers are an integral part of the community; they inform the public about important issues, encourage political participation and social cohesion.

Local journalism, like the Orleans Hub, provide trusted independent reporting to hold government officials and public policy makers accountable through necessary oversight. Local journalists, like at the Orleans Hub, in a real sense roll away the stones of societal sins, and let the sunshine in.

Furthermore, local journalists provide social and cultural content of hard-to-reach audiences which helps our understanding of our neighbors. Newspapers also provide a place for readers to express opinions in a respectful manner.

While social media sites allow for rude, demeaning, bullying and intimidation with little facts or evidence to advance a policy or argument; newspapers offer opportunity for thoughtful arguments.

It is appropriate that we celebrated the Orleans Hub’s birthday the same month we celebrate Easter, a spiritual rebirth. I encourage readers to donate and support the Orleans Hub.

William Fine

Brockport

(Editor’s Note: The Orleans Hub will be 10 years old on April 1.)