N-P Puts Up Scary, Ugly Fence
(Photos by Paul Wellman)
Seems like someone over at the News-Press got confused
by all the chatter about walls between the newsroom and the
editorial opinion at modern American newspapers. So instead of
actually re-installing that wall within the halls of the newspaper,
the paper’s top brass (namely Arthur von Wiesenberger, we hear)
decided to erect a wall outside of the building, further separating
the paper from its increasingly disenchanted and dismayed
audience.
mesh fence that blocks off the newspaper’s main parking lot from
Anacapa Street (not to mention what must be a public easement
shortcut to Ortega Street), was installed last Friday, just as the
embattled newsroom staff was digesting their turkey dinners. That’s
when The Indy‘s photog-about-town Paul Wellman captured
these thrilling puttin’-up-the-fence shots. The one above is what
the building now looks like with its fancy green perimeter, while
the one below features Martin Duran of Fence Factory installing a
chain link fence with “privacy mesh screening” along Anacapa
Street.
