The Wrong Fence

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.

This new wall, which is actually a green
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.