The Dallas Express

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February

A letter from the publisher

OPINION

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Monty Bennett | ashfordinc.com

By Monty Bennett

Feb 8, 2021

Truth has become a casualty in today’s media world. News has become a vessel to promote favored world views, and objectivity has been sacrificed. There are many publications in our wonderful city, but none we can count on daily to present just the facts. Readers can’t pick up a local publication without seeing bias in one direction or the other.

I can’t take it anymore—and I know many of you can’t either. The Dallas Express was created for one purpose; to help make our city a better place. That's it. It's a non-profit operation and there's no other agenda.

The Dallas Express will be a daily news source that serves every member of our community. It will be a place to learn about what's happening in Dallas, without a political agenda. It will not be left-leaning or right-leaning; it will present news about our city straight down the center.

We won’t use much-abused “anonymous source” tricks to make news fit a narrative. In fact, we won't use any anonymous sources at all without my approval, which will be rare. You’ll find we report what named sources, documents and data make clear, and not much else. This is the kind of news you can expect at The Dallas Express.

We also have an innovation that's truly unique. Our Community Newsmaker is a way for members of our community to drive our news process. Do you know someone who deserves recognition? Just click on our Community Newsmaker button in the upper right portion of the front page to submit your story. We'll do our best to report as many submissions as possible.

If you want to read opinions, we have an Editorial section for that, and we will invite members of the community to offer their views. Guest editorials will be from differing viewpoints. We are unique in the Dallas area in that we truly do value diversity of opinion and you won't be shamed for having opinions different from what television talking heads say you should have. If the opinions offend you then please just skip over them and enjoy learning more about the great people and events in our community. What is important is that we pursue solutions together that work. In the end, that’s all I want.

A central question for our readers will be, why are nearly all cities in our great nation in such dire straights? Most, including Dallas, are marred with higher than average crime rates, high levels of poverty, poor education for our kids, and fiscal irresponsibility. Does this have to be the case? Are cities, through forces we don’t understand, destined to always be this way?….

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