<p>Your view</p>
<p>Thank you, Michele Holtkamp</p>
<p>To the editor:</p>
<p>I had just told my wife you were leaving the Daily Journal. Her response: “Is she going to someplace better?” My knee-jerk answer: “Anything would be better.”</p>
<p>I shocked myself with the answer. I realized I had just spurted out a “Rorschach test” response to the picture of a staffer leaving the employ of a newspaper in 2019.</p>
<p>As a lifetime student of newspapers and a late-in-life participant in their 21st century death-knell, I have formed a deep respect and admiration for the diminishing list of reporters and editors who, like you, have kept the ideals of responsible journalism alive.</p>
<p>After reading about your 18 years of contributions to the Daily Journal in your Opinion Page farewell, experience told me there was again a part of the story you were leaving out — that you did all of this for peanuts in your paycheck compared to most of the citizens you wrote about and all the people you worked for.</p>
<p>Good luck in your new position in the Governor’s office. You deserve it.</p>
<p>John Stiles</p>
<p>Greenwood</p>
