- Manteca Bulletin
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Manteca Bulletin Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner Morris Multimedia Editor Dennis Wyatt Headquarters 531 E. Yosemite Ave.
Manteca, California 95336
United StatesOfficial website mantecabulletin.com The Manteca Bulletin is typically considered the newspaper of record and daily newspaper for Manteca, California, USA. The Bulletin has been published for nearly 100 years. Once locally owned, the paper is now part of Morris Multimedia. The editor is Dennis Wyatt.
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Community newspaper
The Bulletin is a community newspaper and places a heavy emphasis on local news. Like many community newspapers, the Bulletin does not report national or wire service news on its front page. However, the Bulletin will often localize national news if the story has a local impact, or to get local perspective. Non-local news is typically relegated to the inside pages and is often limited in scope.
History
To promote a large-scale water project that was the forerunner to today’s South San Joaquin Irrigation District, two men - F.L. Wurster and A.L. Cowell - joined forces to print the Irrigation Bulletin.
The first copies printed in November of 1908.
The Irrigation Bulletin was printed originally in Stockton. The initial editions were flyers that were distributed throughout the state extolling the virtues of irrigating the 70,000 acres (280 km2) of sandy loam soil around Manteca.
As interest in Manteca development grew, the South San Joaquin Chamber of Commerce to assisted in publishing the Bulletin. The Irrigation Bulletin grew into a standard size weekly newspaper on June 3, 1910 when it was moved from Stockton to Ripon.
The earlier copies were simply glorified flyers that promoted commerce and the irrigation project, as well as offering general business news of the area.
The Ripon-based Bulletin continued to editorialize the positives of the formation of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District that was approved in an election on May 11, 1909. The Bulletin carried news of the impending bond sales to investors throughout California.
The boom was on. The South County population swelled from 3,000 in 1905 to 15,000 by the time the first SSJID water flowed in 1915.
The rapidly growing area gave birth to a series of newspapers: the Escalon Times started in 1910, the Manteca Enterprise published its first edition on Nov. 1, 1911, the Ripon Record in April of 1912 and the Lathrop Sun shortly thereafter.
The newspaper changed its name from the Irrigation Bulletin to the Manteca Bulletin on Nov. 6, 1914. The Manteca Enterprise merged with the Manteca Bulletin on March 22, 1918.
In 1923, the Murphy family started its 50-year span of ownership of the Manteca Bulletin that started with George Murphy Sr. entering a partnership with Louis Meyer. It stayed in the Murphy family until April 1, 1972 when George Murphy Jr. sold the Bulletin to Charles Morris and his family-owned Morris Multimedia.
The Bulletin is now in its 102nd year of publication as a seven-day-a-week newspaper still emphasizing local news.
Plagiarism
Many of the works published in The Bulletin's editorial section are plagiarized pieces from other works. In response to the outcry over plagiarism , The Bulletin published an editorial acknowledging the problem [1]. The Bulletin as since stopped publishing these letters in their online edition while still allowing the letters in the print edition.
Immigration
The Bulletin has recently published a set of editorials critical of immigration issues in the United States. Managing Editor Dennis Wyatt recently wrote "If they preferred their lives in whatever country they heralded where they weren’t required to speak English to communicate in a business, in school, on a job or with the government then perhaps they should have thought twice about coming to the United States. "
Competition
The paper competes locally with the Modesto Bee, The Record, and the San Joaquin Herald, as well as the weekly Sun Post and Ripon Record.
References
- ^ Wyatt, Dennis (23 December 2009). "Of plagiarism personal attacks & lack of civility". Manteca Bulletin. Morris Multimedia. http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/10111/. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
http://www.mantecabulletin.com/news/article/11547/
External links
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