I just scanned through all the items available online at the T&G website... Here it is, three weeks before a local election, but not a drop of ink has been spent on it today.
There was a big Columbus Day parade yesterday, but the only picture I could find was one of Karyn Polito greeting a friend of the family on the sidelines.
In the Money section, I found one of the most vapid and useless career advice pieces ever written.
The front page story? Yard sale signs are illegal.
The only sign I see here is content starvation... no real motivation... they only put this thing together for today's deadline because they had to.
A couple days ago, however, they issued a press release [disguised as a news story] about how Ralph D. Crowley, Jr. and Harry T. Whitin might [or might not] be interested [according to un-named sources] in buying the T&G [although everybody involved declined to comment]. Well, frankly, if the T&G is sold to anybody, it sure would be great if it was sold to somebody local.
Ever since ownership of our local daily paper was first transferred out of town, the organization has been transformed into being a mere shadow of its former self. It has been a soul-less feeder tube for out of town ledgers, leaving those who worked there without much purpose beyond the whims of someone they may likely never even meet.
Local owners, no matter what their political leanings may be, would be the only thing I can even imagine that could possibly have any slightest chance of bringing that paper back to life.
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