OK, OK both sides appear a bit tacky in this. Yeah, Ann McFall should probably have taken the high road and just gone ahead and talked to Pat Hatfield. However, if she doesn't want to, really that's her choice. But she does undercut her position when she says how wonderful the Daytona Beach News Journal is. C'mon! That creepy eastside paper is a stinking, rotten corpse, doomed by years of unethical predatory business practices by the Tippen Davidson family. It silenced West Volusia's 110-year-old distinguished voice, the DeLand Sun News, by taking it over and closing it. Karma is now paying back the News Journal. Thank goodness the DeLand Beacon came along and thank goodness it's so darn adorable. Sure, it's obvious the Beacon should require that its staff steer clear of donating to political campaigns. Again though, the Beacon is, overall, so adorable, we can overlook this one flaw, especially since its equally adorable publisher has no formal college journalism training and -- though admittedly a fairly smart cookie -- probably just doesn't know better or how foolish this makes her look.