Breaking News! How to bury a publisher's DUI Matt Golas Times Leader Fri, Apr. 07, 2006 Dear readers in Hazleton. If you want your intelligence assaulted pick up your local newspaper today and look at a brief on page 5. You will notice a news item about a fellow named Paul N. Walser, Jr. Here is what the item says. "A Sugarloaf Township man was cited for driving under the influence Tuesday morning in Wilkes-Barre. "Police said Paul N. Walser Jr., 40, was seen sitting in his vehicle on Sherman Street in Wilkes-Barre at about 12:30 a.m. "According to police, a breath test showed his blood alcohol content was above the legal limit." HERE IS WHAT THE ARTICLE DID NOT STATE. According to Wilkes-Barre police: Walser's blood-alcohol content was 0.211, more than twice the level at which an adult driver is considered drunk in Pennsylvania. Walser was driving with an expired license. Walser was going fast enough to flatten all four tires on his SUV. Walser did not remember hitting anything. Oh, and here is the best part, Walser is the publisher and executive vice president of the Hazleton Standard-Speaker. That's your local ivory tower. Standard-Speaker executive editor Carl Christopher said he had not heard anything about Walser's arrest until a Times Leader reporter called him about it Wednesday. Christopher told us he didn't know if the Standard-Speaker would publish anything about Walser's arrest. "Ordinarily if something happens in Wilkes-Barre, unless it's a really big story, we don't get involved in it. A citation, we normally don't bother with things like that unless there was an accident involved. If there wasn't in this case, I don't know if we would follow up on it or not," Christopher said. Well, they got the arrest on the record. Now all they have to do is come clean. Editor, mgolas@leader.net (c) 2006 Times Leader and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved. http://www.timesleader.com