Your small paper could be a reality star!

If the product is anything at all like what it was when I worked there, that's going to be a very depressing, droll program. But they will have someone nicknamed "Pot Pie," so there's that. And of course the town stuck in its own delusions over the alien spiel.

 

Don't give them any ideas.

 

I'm guessing it all be a Gannett paper as several affiliates are owned by Gannett.

 

Tabloid Wars ... two episodes of following the crime reporter and other somewhat interesting folks who work their asses off, six episodes following the whiny 29-year-old gossip reporter who attends celebrity raves so A&E can show famous people partying.

 

"Pot Piener" and "Boooooooosh!" with references to "Spanky"

The title of the should probably be "Roswell is BOOMING!"

 

Okay. Didn't realize that. Did you see the movie?

 

It would be like the opening of a "Police Squad" episode, a character would be cut in the opening credits.

 

And she also moonlights as a stripper.

 

If they pick a newspaper where J. Todd Foster's working, we know who'd become the star.

 

This sounds like a good fit for a weekly paper. Every episode could be pegged to an edition.

What's going to be great is when Ruby Tuesday buys ad time and then insists the paper review them, even though the nearest restaurant is 75 miles away.

 

I've worked in some pretty small shops over the last couple of decades and can't think of anything interesting any of them could have used as a hook. A fat redneck waddling up to a pressbox for a soccer game with 27 people in attendance probably wouldn't be the most gripping thing they could find.

Three publications that gave me money to watch sports were five- or six-day-a-week operations where almost all of the newsroom staff were middle-aged women. I heard waaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too many stories about adolescent daughters going through "the change."

At one of those places, located in farm country, our lead art one day was an overturned turnipsugar beet truck. This was also the shop that thought obtaining one of the first fax machines in town (in 1989 or so) was newsworthy.

 

The Hungry Horse News is a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 4,200. Published every Wednesday, the Hungry Horse News covers the community of Columbia Falls, Glacier National Park and the Flathead Valley.

The name dates back to 1900 when two freight horses, Tex and Jerry, were lost in the undeveloped South Fork of the Flathead River drainage. When found a month later in belly-deep snow, they were skin and bones — and very, very hungry. Today, Hungry Horse is the name of a creek, lake, mountain, town and hydroelectric dam.

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