tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post7269982992524642185..comments2024-03-19T22:06:41.165-04:00Comments on fromtheeditr: More Crapola Desguised as a NewspaperAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04217963475185024609noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-65194806646046705372011-08-31T16:27:48.243-04:002011-08-31T16:27:48.243-04:00Bruce: I couldn't find anything about Brockenb...Bruce: I couldn't find anything about Brockenbrough on Google or anywhere else. Is he some sort of mystery figure? Tell me about him.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04217963475185024609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077386656187888581.post-90081693761964116302011-08-31T16:19:29.256-04:002011-08-31T16:19:29.256-04:00This has to be great news for Wayne Brockenbrough ...This has to be great news for Wayne Brockenbrough as he enters a new round of competition against the Roanoke Times. If he hires decent reporters at a good pay rate while "The Burgs" is using "community journalists" to coordinate all the user-generated content, he will be ahead of the game. The Big Drip has been less and less about news for many years, even though many major events have happened in the New River Valley that have been more worthy of the front page than some Roanoke happenings.<br /><br />I worked for the News Messenger ages ago before a falling out will Bill Hall put me out the door (my choice). I ended up with New River Newspapers when it was run by the Rooker family, as a reporter for the Radford <i>News Journal</i>, when there was also the <i>Southwest Times</i> and <i>Blacksburg Sun</i> in existence. The news staffs of all those papers was young and idealistic in that Woodward and Bernstein era, but we worked hard and we scooped the RT often because we were out in the trenches while the bureau folks did most of their work by phone from their trailer office on Rt. 114. Things haven't changed much, they still phone it in a lot, or just don't bother to cover many government meetings if there isn't much on the agenda. Many other events and activities don't get much notice in favor of filling space with reader-submitted pictures of squirrels, dogs, and flowers.<br /><br />It is a good thing there are some dedicated bloggers in the valley who have worked hard to keep after the local government officials, otherwise there are some things that would have slipped by without notice, especially in Christiansburg.<br /><br />Will anyone really notice much change in the transition to "The Burgs"? Probably not.Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13878685536385883728noreply@blogger.com