i consider loudoun a pretty cool place and they cheapen our street cred. we look like a bunch of country bumpkins that just discovered sliced bread.

anyway, either get the production quality up to national standard or don’t do it. also, companies are buying these struggling local papers and keeping the same people to run them. hello??? if they didn’t suck, why are they all filing for bankruptcy.

just a thought.

p.s. I knew the original “Liz” statement did not come from Liz Coe when I saw the word “ostensibly”.

It’s not your fault. I understand you are doing what you are told to do. It’s just that what you are told to do is one of the reasons that newpapers (and journalism) is in trouble.

LI does better research than LTM or LT.

Here are some questions for you…

How did the school site selection process become what it is? Where are they doing it better? Why does it take so long to make changes in the process? Who disagrees with changes and why? How supports change and why?

I have a list of other topics, but really, that’s your managing editor’s job.

Produce a good product. People will read it. People will then advertise in it. Profit.

Of course Ben, LI can even have a re occurring role. As a matter of fact my wife said you and LI had the only real exciting personalities at the beer bust you threw after the election. ha ha ha And I need to get a role for you too, Ben.

Perhaps we can do a scene like a road trip from my place over to the brew pub with both you two in it. Recreate the exciting version of the beer bust, although we need to find other actors to play some of the other personalities that were there, as a few are real duds in real life, compared to how they act here in secrecy. ha ha ha I can think of two right off hand.

Don’t worry LI you can have Loudoun. My potential TV series is nothing like the craziness that goes on here locally.

I hope Lee isn’t stealing my Loudoun TV series idea. I still need to finish up the casting on that.

Beyond that, just a quick SHOUT OUT to Leej – Leej – I strongly recommend that you create a cameo role for LI in the home movie pilot that you are producing this summer.

Todd and truthseeker, I think there is potential here – we need to let things play out a bit. I don’t really need the video of the burning house to get the gist of the story, but it would be interesting to see. I think the real value lies not so much in background footage as it does in providing more in-depth interviews with those in the news. I think The Independent is way ahead on that one, but I did like the extra SB member interviews on LT. LTM is the newest to this medium and will hopefully pick it up a notch.