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Are newspapers dying?
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Volume 7, Issue 14
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The Weaverville Tribune
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is to deliver fair and accu-
The Weaverville Tribune is a publication of
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Television, Internet and even some helping the community.
rate articles on the people,
Tribune Papers in association with Mountain
radio stations have rolled out the pipe Now weekly community newspa-
places, and events in North
Sentinel, Inc.
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organ and have said final words over pers, like the Weaverville Tribune, are
Buncombe. We hope to help
Publisher & Sr.Editor Clint Parker
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newspapers as they believe the end of holding their own or even growing in
further a sense of community
Editor Matt Tate
print media is right around the corner. the economic downturn.
and understanding for the
Graphic Design Bob Leary Mail: P.O. Box 2293
Members of the federal government Why? I believe there are several
residents of the area..
Patrick Braswell & Steve Jencks Weaverville, NC 28787
seem to agree as some have proposed to reasons.
Advertising Pat Starnes
turn newspapers into non-profit organi- First, when a business buys an ad in a
zations in order to save the industry. weekly, it’s not here today, gone tomor-
The Weaverville Tribune is published weekly by The Asheville Tribune and Mountain Sentinel, Inc. at 113 North Main Street, Section B,
Weaverville, NC 28787. It can be picked up at 113 North Main Street and many other locations throughout Buncombe County.
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Clint Parker
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I say that the demise of newspapers in row like it is in a daily. Most readers of
America has been greatly exaggerated. a weekly keep the newspaper around
Yes, it’s true that the big dailies are the house until the next issue comes
Scholar/Athlete of the Week
dropping like flies and laying off em- out. Thus, giving others time to read it.
ployees and cutting back coverage, but A single issue of the average weekly is
not everyone in the industry is having read by 3.5 people. If you get busy, your
hard times and even some of the dailies daily paper is yesterday’s news.
aren’t in bad shape. It’s just that newspa- Second, community news is relevant
pers are not the revenue producers that to communities and most of it can’t be
they used to be. But should they be? found on the Web. Dailies that con-
I know of a daily that made $7 mil- tinue to use their pages to print world
lion in profit last year. Doesn’t sound and national news are printing news
like that daily is in trouble to me. Does that most people heard the previous
it to you? night on television or read on the Web
However, it has shut down part of its that morning.
operation, cut the size of the paper, laid Third, everyone likes to see their
employees off and has asked the remain- name in print or their picture in the
ing employees to take unpaid time off. newspaper. Everyone that is, except
Why? Is $7 million not enough? Well, criminals. Print lends creditability to
it’s not enough for the company’s home a story.
office where all the profit is sent and the Finally, newspapers are the last truly
newspaper has only returned enough government-free media operating un-
money to run operations. der the First Amendment and, in my
A little note to the home office: A opinion, should not be bailed out by
newspaper run like that is not the life- the government to become a puppet for
blood of the community. the government.
It’s nothing more than a cash cow There will always be a need for print
and the headquarters of the newspaper journalism where the goals of the news-
is just milking it for what they can paper are fair and accurate reporting,
pump out of the community. Neither along with bettering the community,
the newspaper’s reporting nor the not fattening a far off conglomerate’s
removal of the cash from the area is bottom line.
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of the Week is North Buncombe She owns a 4.25 GPA and hopes Steve Region of Weaverville.
High School freshman Jamie to one day become a math teacher. Bi l l B ou g hton of E dwa rd
Region. Region, 15, is a member She would like to continue her Jones presented Region with her
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