The Signal Newspaper

While staying in Valencia last week, I picked up the Signal hoping to read some good journalism. Boy was I surprised at their «small town» trash and gossip reporting. They totally made the town look bad with their childlike short stories and crime reports… unethically reporting peoples names, age, location, occupation etc just because they had viewed police bookings… they should not be out to ruin peoples reputations by reporting «crimes» before being convicted as everyone knows the law enforcement is always going to go for the biggest and most money making charge they can. Other «small town» papers only report initials to protect people. What a low life service they are doing to their own people and town!!! If they are to go so far as to report crimes before a conviction, then they should use initials and also report when the charge is dropped and the person is cleared. Hmmm… why don’t they??? The damage to people’s reputation only hurts their ability to be responsible citizens, get jobs and take care of their families. It also endangers them and their families if some other fools wants to go after them, harass them or their family. That is why police names and info are protected so why the double standard?
While in town, I also viewed their paper online. They even put their gossip crime on the web permanently harming reputations with complete names, age, location, occupation, crime charged with! Wow, how cruel and harmful is that? The Signal appeared to do more disservice to their town and people… no reputable newspaper visits crime logs in order to ruin reputations by telling everyone’s personal information unless it is a sensational story with murder, police chases etc… however, they must have little to do and want to ruin the image Santa Clarita is trying to build. I got the impression the town is full of crime, drugs and not a safe city. Glad I do not live there and really have a bad taste for the Signal’s and consequently, city’s ethics which ruined the image I had of the people living there! Sad newspaper with poor representation of the city!!!