The Morning Call newspaper, whose main distribution area is Lehigh and Northampton counties, Pennsylvania, continues to conspire with the the officials of Northampton County in the construction of a Sands BethWorks slot machine gambling casino complemented by a luxury hotel, entertainment center, parking deck, and upscale shopping center, etc.

This ambitious project, which the Sands BethWorks developers have already scaled back,  lies  within the flood plain of the Lehigh River and wetland and directly in the path of storm-water runoff from South Mountain and the Lehigh University campus..

The Morning Call and its sister print media, The Express-Times - whose distribution area coincides basically with the MC’s - have both failed to report the facts of the Sands BethWorks development.

On the contrary, these two print media, and the electronic-media Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) station WLVT-39 and  commercial station WFMZ-69, have aggressively  promoted Sands/BethWorks through their distorted reporting   favoring  the casino and its related projects.

This is in stark contrast to Monroe County, adjacent to the counties of Lehigh and Northampton, and the Mount Airy Casino and Resort gambling palace.  It has been the subject of extensive coverage in the media of  Lehigh and Northampton counties (referred to commonly as the “Lehigh Valley”).

Monroe County is also the home of the Pocono Record, whose reporters Eric Mark and Robert B. Smith have written factual and informative articles about the corruption in the Mount Airy Casino and Resort  and the Pennsylvania Gam(bl)ing Board (PGCB) that controls this nascent industry in the Keystone State..