Burlington Times-News editor Madison Taylor writes in his blog a few days ago that any rumors regarding the early demise of the Burlington Times-News is just that...rumors.Taylor:
Today, however, the Times-News is part of the rumor. We did not create this situation. It’s now my job to clean it up. Whether that’s fair or not isn’t the issue. It’s my job.
So here it goes: The Times-News is not closing - not no way, not no how. We are not shutting the doors and locking them behind us today or next week or next month or six months from now.
There, I said it.
Need more? Well, our reporters are still reporting, our photographers are still shooting and Frances Woody continues her remarkable run of dispensing common sense advice and two columns a week. Our advertising agents are traversing the asphalt for clients, our graphics artists are designing and our classified advertising representatives are standing by. At night our copy editors are writing headlines, our pressmen are plating up and carriers are depositing our daily product upon thousands of Alamance County driveways.
And for those who come through the front door, Vicki Davis is there with a smile same as always.
I submit this for your approval, as the late Rod Serling might’ve said, to clear up a, “Rumor has it …” in the community that the Times-News is closing and soon. In short, it’s untrue and then some. Fact is, the Times-News is operating in the black even as some of our larger brethren are deep in the red.
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E.C. :)
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