Rose Bowl or Bust!
Column by Jim Gordon
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, a young man who is a big sports enthusiast usually becomes an Ohio State football fan.
I was no different and since my dad was a graduate of the OSU Law School, he was able to get tickets to the Buckeye home games and once or twice a year, he took me to see them play before they started showing the games on TV on a regular basis. Back in the 50′s and 60′s, either Ohio State or Michigan went to the Rose Bowl almost every year, depending on who won the showdown in the final game of the regular season.
If the Bucks prevailed, everyone got together with their friends and watched the game on their 12″ black and while TV screens and my mom and I also enjoyed watching the Rose Bowl Parade, especially after more and more programs were shown in color and folks started buying color TVs in the 60′s. Read more
AFP InDepth | You’re going to make me pay now?
Local paper puts content behind pay wall
Valley newspaper publishers are watching with great interest how the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg fares with its recent move to put its online content entirely behind a pay wall.
“That’s a pretty bold move. It will be interesting to see how it works out. I think publishers everywhere are rooting for them hoping that it works so it opens up a new revenue stream,” said Roger Watson, the publisher of the News Leader in Staunton.
“Online revenues nowhere that I know have shown the potential to support the traditional size and scope of news operations run by newspapers. So it makes no sense for newspapers to put their online products in direct competition with their print products, one giving away what the other seeks to sell. The DN-R’s move, I think, recognizes these realities,” said Lee Wolverton, the editor and general manager of the News Virginian in Staunton.
DN-R editor and general manager Peter Yates said the move, which was effective Oct. 1, is based on “the basic premise that our business has been based on for years.” Read more
Landes: ‘The White House is checking on whether they support the president’
Is Steve Landes using your tax dollars to track down wild partisan allegations that the White House is tracking your blogs and comments?
He told the News Leader for a story on the “Nazi” remark controversy published Friday morning that he has staff engaged in the pursuit of “information out there that the White House is tracking blogs and comments.” Read more
Chris Graham | The Valley’s Favorite
“Congratulations on being named the Valley’s Favorite News Reporter.”
“Huh?”
Some news reporter I am. The announcement was in the Friday, Aug. 28 News Virginian, in the paper’s annual Valley’s Favorites section, and I find out about it today at the high-school cross-country meet at Augusta Expoland.
Stop the Presses | Stuff
A lot going on today, requiring a better attention span than I have access to given my recent battles with summer allergies.
(Blame it on the rain. And being outside most of the weekend.) Read more
In search of a leader on development
I give the News Virginian hell often enough that it is only fair of me to give kudos to the paper when deserved, and it’s deserved in the matter of the call in a Wednesday editorial for somebody on Waynesboro City Council to step forward and take the lead on downtown.
I’ll take their call one step further to suggest that we need, desperately need, even, for somebody to come forward to be the point person on City Council on economic development citywide. Read more
The Pulse | Did you read that endorsement of Landes?
Posted by afp on October 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
“The preternaturally bland Steve Landes views his political career as that of a slogger trudging through legislative thickets whittling away tax and regulatory weeds. Accountants and morticians are peppier,” began the recommendation of the editorial board of the News Virginian in the 25th District published today, which went to Steve Landes, the incumbent Republican. Read more
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