“Official charges unfair attention from LVEDC,” reports an article published in September 10, 2006’s edition of The Express-Times.

LVEDC’s executive director, Beth Gorin, infiltrated the Lehigh Valley region’s porous borders from Bergen County, whose livability she helped destroy as the excutive director of its Department of Community and Economic Development.

As Gorin herself has confessed, she and the developers/speculators had “built-out” Bergen’s available open space, and they needed the fuel of cheap, open land the engine of their economic juggernaught chugging along.

So Gorin and her developers/speculators are working at cross purposes with the Valley’s (whatever its borders are today) who are spending millions of our tax dollars in the name of “preserving open space.”

I am going to take my case to the FBI.  Unelected and unaccountable developers/speculators and officials of private noprofit organizations like the LVEDC, and not elected officials accountable to the public, are running the illegal political jurisdiction that goes by the name “Lehigh Valley.”

Incidentally, today’s edition of The Express-Times didn’t even report Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s visit to the BethWorks yesterday, nor did it report on yesterday’s meeting of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board.

The Morning Call reported the PGCB meeting, but only in the print edition, and not on-line.

So, my friend and fellow blogger Bernie O’Hare notwithstanding, the local print - and electronic - media continue to to manange the news.

In fact, today’s edtion of The New York Times carries an in-depth article about how the media in general manage the news.

Here in the Valley, former downtown Easton business owner and operator David Clark have clearly made the case of managed news in articles published on the www.billybytes.com website.

The Morning Call and its parent, the Tribune, headquartered in Chicago, clearly favor news consolidation through the ownership of both print and electronic media in the same city, an issue challenged by the Chandler publishing family of Los Angles, which owns stock in the Tribune.