Hi! I just wondered: did anybody at Westfield State check on Mr. Dobelle’s performance when he served in Hawaii before they hired him? Thank you.
Hi! I have been purchasing the Westfield Evening News and the Westfield News for going on 40 years, a faithful customer. It’s not my fault I never knew how to use a computer. We went through this once before already. There’s plenty of people out there that don’t know how to use a computer and they like to use the telephone. A lot of these people are shut-ins and this is a way for them to vent. What’s the matter with making a reflection on a local issue? That’s what it is all about, or doing a personal attack on somebody. It’s not the view of the Westfield News. You should print that: this is not the view of the Westfield News. It is a place for people to vent and have a little fun and so on and so forth. And I called in asking about hummingbirds and I called in asking about a turkey. can’t you even take the time to get something like this in the paper? This is what sells your paper. I bet that 50 percent of the people that read your paper read it just for the PulseLine. And when you go a whole week and you’re seeing nothing in there and you said you only take computer stuff, you aren’t doing nothing. A whole week went by and there was nothing in there. But I called in on the phone. OK, give it a thought. Thank you. We realize that the PulseLine is a widely read part of our paper and that some residents don’t have a computer. The problem is manpower: we don’t have the ability to transcribe the phone calls every day like in years past so we give priority treatment to those that come to us in an electronic form and phone calls are printed when we have time to transcribe them. Since we launched The Westfield News Radio Show (Thursday morning’s 6-8am on 89.5FM) we have taken to playing the audio of PulseLine voicemails and answering some of the questions posed. For those that remember the old Dew Line on WDEW from way back, this is very similar.
