A Note from the Editor...
Nobody noticed but us…but we had our One Year Anniversary a couple of weeks ago. Yes, one year of publishing The Grove Observer, more than 500 articles, 26,000 readers at one time or another, and an average weekly circulation of 800. People read it in Iraq, Afghanistan, on cruise ships, vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, or here in Grove.
We've tried hard to present all of the important news, both sides of issues, timely, and with correctly spelled words. We've received dozens of compliments. We've also received a few emails from those who think we should print only their viewpoint, which we are not about to do.
When we first began, a local businesswomen referred to us as "just a blog" with a dismissive wave of her hand. Our format is a weblog, for simplicity, but our content is anything but. There are now more than 35 million blogs out there, most of them on the radical side where people expose their radical thoughts. Don't lump us with them. Just call us an electronic news magazine.
And, there will come a time when most small town dailies are published strictly via the Internet, as fuel and other costs will prohibit home deliveries. Most newspapers now offer electronic issues.
As we continue into our second year, we remind our readers that we receive no pay, absorb all of our gasoline costs, time, etc, and perform a service which we feel is needed in Grove. A lot of our readers agree. But we still have organizations in Grove which refuse to provide us with their public relations handouts, as punishment of sorts for taking stands on issues in our editorials. At least we write local editorials. And we are not going to back off exposing the light of day on controversial issues.
So until we get tired of it all and move away, we hope you will keep reading The Grove Observer, and provide us with news of interest to Grovidians.
We've tried hard to present all of the important news, both sides of issues, timely, and with correctly spelled words. We've received dozens of compliments. We've also received a few emails from those who think we should print only their viewpoint, which we are not about to do.
When we first began, a local businesswomen referred to us as "just a blog" with a dismissive wave of her hand. Our format is a weblog, for simplicity, but our content is anything but. There are now more than 35 million blogs out there, most of them on the radical side where people expose their radical thoughts. Don't lump us with them. Just call us an electronic news magazine.
And, there will come a time when most small town dailies are published strictly via the Internet, as fuel and other costs will prohibit home deliveries. Most newspapers now offer electronic issues.
As we continue into our second year, we remind our readers that we receive no pay, absorb all of our gasoline costs, time, etc, and perform a service which we feel is needed in Grove. A lot of our readers agree. But we still have organizations in Grove which refuse to provide us with their public relations handouts, as punishment of sorts for taking stands on issues in our editorials. At least we write local editorials. And we are not going to back off exposing the light of day on controversial issues.
So until we get tired of it all and move away, we hope you will keep reading The Grove Observer, and provide us with news of interest to Grovidians.
posted by Editor | 1:05 AM
2 Comments:
You're doing a great job and I really appreciate your hard work. Maybe you need to have advertisers to help with funding. Maybe there's something your readers can do to help as well. Let us know.
Keep up the good work! You are providing a much needed service in Grove. I only wish you could afford to produce a print publication.
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