Southern Va. mystery SE posting

You're right about the ME being a pain, but the real jackass there is the GM. The publisher is a prize too. Their reputations (or lack there of) are off the charts.

 

I have no knowledge of the actual horror stories involving this place, I just know that it has a horrible reputation per everyone's sentiment on here. what really shocked me is the fact that it is a 20,000 circ. paper

when i first heard about this place i just assumed it was some podunk, 5,000k operation that was more newsletter than newspaper. i just can't understand how that many bad managers can fester for so long at a paper of that size.

 

Want more shock? It used to be in the mid 30s before the economy in Martinsville and Henry County (the county the 'Ville is in) hit the shitter.

 

are you sure it was because the economy hit the shitter and not because the Ginny Wray's of the world took over?

id love to see a picture of this, er, lady. the name ginny wray even sounds bitchy

 

M'ville economy is the drizzling shits. Their traditional revenue streams are furniture, textiles, tobacco and NASCAR, in no particular order. The first three have taken a royal beating in south-central Virginia, and I can't imagine they're going to have two Cup races for much longer. Unemployment is low double-digits, per capita income is probably under 15K, or not a lot higher.

Honestly, I'm surprised they're doing as "well" as they are (16,400 daily/18,700 Sunday, so they're also taking some liberties with "20,000 circulation").

 

Funny you should mention my friend -- seems he had turned in his notice just AFTER the job was posted ... he's taken a job as a lead page designer at a paper close to his hometown in New York ... he thinks that the editor posted the notice just to see who responded ... he based that on the fact that no one got an e-mail response from her until AFTER he gave notice ...

 

Right on with every point you made. High school graduation rate is around 60 and unemployment somewhere between 10-13 percent. Henry County and Pittsylvania County (where Danville is) were always battling it out for worst unemployment rate in the state several years ago. I don't know where it is now.

Ginny Wray is a pain most of the time, but the lady works hard and long (at least 70-80 hours a week). That said, like the rest of the management there, she likes to butt in and tell the sports department what they should/shouldn't be doing and she has no clue what she's talking about. The Bulletin has to be one of the worst run dailies in the country.

 

come on, 60 percent high school grad rate?

 

I'm not bullshitting. That was as of a few years ago so it may have gone up. I'm just talking about Martinsville only, not the county it's in.

 

are there a buncha ditches that need to be dug in martinsville?

 

The reason it's so low is when Martinsville was thriving it was a mill town and kids would drop out of school to get a job at the mill and help their families. Then the mills closed in the early to mid 90s and those kids were SOL. They may have gotten their GEDs later, but that wasn't counted to the graduation rate.

 

helluva good tradition. i can see why parents would allow it to continue.