To read the “editorial” in this week’s local version of the National Enquirer, you might get the impression the newspaper’s editors think they are working at one of the great icons of American Journalism – The Washington Post.  The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting of the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon.

In an allusion to those “glory days” of investigative reporting, the island weekly this week suggested Sheriff Deryl Loar’s tenure may well depend on that “newspaper’s” reporting prowess.  “If Loar has any hopes of remaining in office beyond 2016, it is not too early for him to begin manning up and providing real answers to serious questions – and not just relying on pathetic puppets to slander the messenger.”

If the malcontents in every Sheriff’s Office in the state had a “newspaper” to do their bidding, stories similar to those appearing weekly in the “Island Enquirer” would be running in newspaper from Pensacola to Jacksonville to Key West.