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Show THIS IS YOUR NEWSPAPER Have you ever thought of the significance of that statement, It really is your paper, so why not make it as interesting as possible? Conditions on a. weekly paper are quite different from those on a city daily with a large circulation list. The weekly has a com-paritively com-paritively small staff of workers compared to a big city daily. There are no feature writers, no specially trained group of photographers. It depends on the people living in the community for personal items, accounts ac-counts of meetings, special news accounts, such as school news, club gatherings and social get-togethers of all types, and for pictures. An article accompanied by a picture especially when it concerns someone, or a group of people known to practically everyone in the community, always adds interest to the item. Without the interest and assistance of its readers, a weekly could not hope to continue in business for very long. Yet a weekly will give much more coverage to local events than the daily. A weekly gives everyone, young or old an opportunity oppor-tunity to see his or her personal contributions, written up in the "hometown" paper and no matter how "amateurish" "ama-teurish" they migh look to those outside that particular particu-lar community, to those within the hometown it is especially es-pecially interesting, because the people are known to practically all the subscribers. Small town journalism may lack the sensationalism sensational-ism and the glaring headlines of the daily paper, but there is a lot of satisfaction in hearing about people you know and associate with in your everyday life. If you have out-of-town company; give a party, or hear of something that might be news for your local lo-cal paper 4hat is news, but it won't be news unless someone reports it to your paper. Any item, regardless regard-less of how small it is, is welcomed by your newspaper. Any local happening is news, and news is what your newspaper wants. |