Five Years

Philip R. Klein writes in his latest article on the SET Political Review:

The Southeast Texas Political Review has learned of internal "talk" and "planning" to stop the printed product of the Beaumont Enterprise - and only have a paid subscription on the internet to the Newspaper. Leaving one of the longest running papers in Southeast Texas to not deliver to homes as citizens continue there discourse with the Enterprise and drop subscriptions.

"I was told that within the next five years I could expect the Enterprise not to be producing a paper - but they would continue online," said a source inside the paper that called the Review late last week.

From an article entitled "Death Rattle," published 16 months ago on January 15, 2009:

Backroom sources say that Hearst will sell off the paper within the next year after getting their numbers stabilized and at least hitting bottom on the decrease of subscribers.

That never happened, so perhaps Klein needs a new set of "backroom sources:" 

As well, the Review contacted another source inside the paper who told us : "That is the talk going on around our paper. They are getting ready to lease part of the building and moving everyone together. It is kind of sad. There are no very many people left," stated the source.

Philip makes this claim:

Here is our thought on the Enterprise. They have lost touch with the people. And it is kind of sad to think they would even consider closing. True - we too let our subscription go - but for political reasons. Why do we want to contribute to the problem? We see the Enterprise as part of the problem. No doubt.

Yet, Philip published this on Sunday afternoon:

Look at the front page of the Easter Edition of Beaumont Enterprise? And notice how the Enterprise does not print on the top any longer "Happy Easter?"

If Philip really canceled his subscription, how would he know the Enterprise did or did not publish the Easter banner?

Neither did Klein mention those former newspapers that have already made the jump from print to online, such as the Christian Science Monitor. This is hardly unique to the Beaumont Enterprise. The Rocky Mountain News in Denver closed after 150 years in business. What is unique is Klein's take:

"I stopped reading them years ago. They are just like the national media. They simply believe in big government and are a part of the elected groupies. I can get my news from cable or even your rag," said a source - on the DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE FENCE.

This is not what Klein claimed in yesterday's article, when he used his sixth sense to channel the entire Democratic Party:

Only one party, the democrats [sic], who believe in bigger government and government intrusion in your daily life.

 What an idiot - Pot, meet kettle:

But just look at the Bayou web site socked with in your face, sexual innuendos and out of line and simply weird stories - well you see that the left does not want anyone in private business to succeed - they just want to cry about it. And that turns people off.

Did Klein mean weird as in non-existent investigations into alleged Hatch Act violations? Did he mean out- of-line stories as in defamatory stories that claimed a member of the U.S. Army Reserves was a "draft-dodger" and would be Iraq or jail by March 3, 2010?  Perhaps he meant sexual innuendos about "putting hands down three little girls panties and fondling them" or alleged investigations about extramarital affairs by sitting judges?

I was disappointed by this statement:

We will watch and keep you updated. It should be interesting.

If Klein plans on keeping us updated, he's apparently abandoned his own five-year plans as revealed in his response to this "letter" from a "reader," published on PRK's reader mail page in 2008:

From Beaumont : "...................and if you hate this place so much why don't you take your dyslexic fingers the h*** out of Jefferson County."

Answer :    Working on it. We are in a five-year-plan. 

We'll revisit in five years.