It’s Newton Mayor David Cohen, who tells the Newton Tab’s Dan Atkinson that photos are “not essential” for reporting on progress at the Newton North High School construction site.
Earlier: “Meet the Tab’s new photographer.”
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I guess I should just let Mayor Cohen lay out the next issue of the Newton TAB. It would make my week a lot easier.
Gail Spector
Editor, Newton TAB
The latest of the boneheaded comments coming out of Newton.
Next he'll probably say that moving pictures aren't really necessary for television — you could do just as well with sound plus a still photograph.
And that they don't really need printing presses when a couple of calligraphers with quill pens and inkpads would do just as well.
Oh, and the obvious question: how much of the (nearly) $200 million hardware is actually "not essential" for educating tomorrow's high school students? Answer: probably a significant portion of the steel and concrete that would be visible in the pictures that the TAB's photographer would've taken.