The Recorder (1869-2009) was the first paper to run my column, starting in February 2005. The Inter-County Newsgroup, of which it was a member, closed seven papers and laid off thirty employees last week, including my editor, for whom I wish only the best. I hope that sometime down the road I'll get more chances to miss his deadlines every week.Four papers that carried my column are no longer in existence as of this week: The Recorder, The Haddon Herald, The Lafayette Hill Journal and The Plymouth Meeting Journal. If I didn't think that my column had been an asset to these papers at a time when small papers are struggling to remain relevant, I might start to worry that I am the Ted McGinley of print media. But it's just tough everywhere right now.
Man, dang, this isn't funny at all. Here, let's post a picture of my dog with the Abominable Snowman:
There, that's better. Kind of.
In any event, The Roxborough Review and The Chestnut Hill Local are still kicking, so the column goes on, for now. Its days as an extra-value-meal-paying-for enterprise might be numbered, but I'll keep cranking it out as long as there are papers to run it.
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