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Bush-league editor knew no news
Here’s an amazing Record Searchlight story to start your week.
Scene: Record Searchlight, last Monday afternoon. A Record Searchlight customer chats with the receptionist while waiting for some papers.
Details, details:The conversation happened many hours after the majority of north state media (Q97 FM Country radio, KRCR TV, Food for Thought, Pink Hollyhock, etc.) had already reported President George Bush would visit the north state. At the time of this exchange, the Record Searchlight still hadn’t posted anything on redding.com about Bush’s visit.
By the way: I’m not blaming RS reporters. I’m recognizing that many people have stopped giving the RS news tips. The result? The paper gets scooped (again). The editor looks clueless.
Finally, the story. The names of the customer (who emailed this story) and the RS receptionist have been removed:
” . . . I was in the front receptionist’s area of the Searchlight awaiting some paperwork from a customer service rep in the back. Happily, I was able to burn some of the time chatting with (the receptionist) while she multi-tasked and busied herself with clerical work. She was pasting legal notices to invoices to mail out to concerned parties.
“Out of sight, I hear a muffled voice, not a lot unlike the teacher from Peanuts (”Wa waah wah wah-wah wah”).
Receptionist: “I don’t know. (Addresses the customer): “Have you heard anything about President Bush visiting the north state this week?”
Customer: “Yes, actually. I heard he’s coming Wednesday and might make a public appearance in Trinity County.”
Receptionist: (To someone out of view) “He’s coming Wednesday and might make a public appearance in Trinity County.”
Peanuts teacher: “Wah wah-wah-wah”
Receptionist: (To the customer) “Where’d you hear that?”
Customer: “Kelly Brewer’s blog.”
Receptionist: “Kelly Brewer’s blog, Silas.”
Silas: (silence)
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LOL … sad
…delicious.
Great laugh to start the day!
**snicker!!!**
SILAS-SHMILAS!
Rock on Kelly.
I can’t even think of a comment that wouldn’t be rude.
Doni…Today we noticed an obit of a person who died next month. The person died August 16 or something to that effect.
I also read a story that ended in mid sentence and wasn’t continued. Part two did appear the next day but you have never known. I guess the Nigerian proof readers didn’t catch it.
Big news with an alert when they did get the news that our Commander In Chief, Bush, was coming to the airport after we’d read it already on “Food for Thought” and Pink Holyhock. Way to go Doni and Kelly.
This full page picture thing, Snap, is a bore also. Typical high school layout.
Missing pages and sticker ads over pictures is also pain in the arse.
Where oh where have all the artists gone?
Bwah ha ha!!!!!!!
Love it!
Who’s the bigger idiot: G-Dub or Silas Lyons???
This does not surprise me. Several months ago when the Record Searchlight reported that Bishop Quinn was closing–the story sounded like this was very recent new– I emailed Silas Lyons that I had known about it for weeks and the story had been out, in the Christian education community at least, for some time. He replied that somehow the paper’s reporters had missed it.