[Fwd: Daily news]

[mpresn1 <mpresn1@moscow.com>]

> Just a little news update :They have already replaced Roger Kendall with
> Steve McClure
> 
> M
> 
> Don Coombs wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, John and Laurie Danahy wrote:
> >
> > > I saw a report in this morning's spokesman review that Roger Kendall was
> > > leaving the Daily news.  Before hiring a replacement, given the
> > > dissatisfaction many residents have with the "Daily Snooze", wouldn't it be
> > > interesting to have a forum for discussion of what the community would like
> > > to see out of our local paper?
> > > John
> > > John and Laurie Danahy
> > > jdanahy@turbonet.com
> > >
> > Especially if the person or people who will make the decision on who
> > to hire would attend.
> >
> > I have to report that the last time there was a meeting like this, about 7
> > months ago, everyone I know except John Danahy attended. (It was a
> > meeting to trade ideas with Roger, who didn't let on that he had this
> > big problem with living here and haviung to put on snow tires.)
> >
> > Yeah, I don't know that many people -- there were six other people there,
> > and I guess I am asking why a meeting now would attract more than seven
> > or eight people. Because quiet desperation has set in over the state of
> > the press in Moscow? I don't have answers, I only have questions. In the
> > long run, John may have better questions than I do, but he doesn't care
> > more about our newspaper.
> >
> > How frightfully old-fashioned that is: Saying "our" newspaper. It's an
> > attitude, apparently, which people can drift away from. But probably eight
> > people (I'm counting in John) haven't, so far.
> >
> > Don Coombs