Friday, July 9, 2010
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Doing well
The News & Reporter, fresh off a blowout performance in the S.C. Press Association's annual contest, received an additional seven awards in the Landmark Community Newspaper, Inc.'s annual contest.
I received some of them, and the first one is one that I am honored to have had the chance to write.
I received a first place award for Excellence in Feature Writing among papers that come out more than once a week, but not daily.
The judge wrote, "I’ve read a lot of stories about World War II veterans, and I’ve read a lot of stories about D-Day. Didn’t think I wanted to read another, but the story of Buddy Ernanadez was vivid and involving, capturing both the humor and horror of that experience. It also benefited from a nice lede that deviated from the predictable. … Guilfoyle weaves together the memories of friends and coworkers to fashion a fond and funny portrait of a beloved community figure. It also benefits from a beautiful ending that comes full-circle."
Read that story, BACK TO THE BEACH: Ernandez returning to Normandy one final time," here.
I also received a second place for Excellence in Editorial Writing.
"The author tackles tough subjects such as race, corruption and poverty with reason, conviction and moral courage. He also takes on a county attorney without blinking an eye. Bravo."
I submitted the same editorials to the SCPA, and received first place for them.
The editorials considered were, "Picking on the poor," about Gov. Mark Sanford; "Should he have mentioned it?" about former Superintendent Larry Heath; and "County wrong to threaten to sue," about the county threatening to sue county residents during the Fort Lawn situation.
I received a second place award for Best News or Feature Story Series.
The judge wrote, "A newspaper reporter hears about a state report that indicates that the county ranks second in the state for lung cancer and third for colorectal cancer. He could write the news story and move onto the next assignment. Or he could do a series on the cancer rates and risks. Fortunately for the readers in Chester County, The News & Reporter chose the latter."
The Cancer series is online in the Feature section of OnlineChester.com. The story that kicked off the series can be read here: "CANCER IN CHESTER COUNTY: County ranks in top five in some categories."
Do a search for "Cancer in Chester County" and the rest of series will come up as the first results.
I received a third place award for Best On-Going / Extended Coverage
"Guilfoyle and another reporter took a tip and a bunch of documents and turned them into a good investigative piece about questionable purchases of surplus property. The accompanying letter notes that The News & Reporter was the only media outlet working the story to routinely go to the official involved in the controversy, the chief deputy, for comment. That’s commendable."
That was the Fort Lawn controversy. It is in archives of OnlineChester.com. It started with two stories, this one by me, "State, SLED reviewing purchases, and this one by Travis Jenkins, "Former councilmen express surprise at outcome of meeting."
The paper won a third place award for Best Front Page Design; Phyllis Lucas did the work on these pages and got the award.
The judge said, "Clean design, nice use of photos and entry points. Your photo choice with the fire story was right on. But it might’ve been good to get that dominant photo above the fold, maybe in a different layout so readers don’t just see black smoke."
Here's that page ---
Phyllis also got a second place award for Best General Page Design.
The judge wrote, "The pages in this entry were well-balanced and had a good range of photos and other elements. What could take this entry to the next level would be adding more white spaces between stories and rules and having even more of a hierarchy among some of the photos."
I'd like to display the pages, but I'm not sure which ones were submitted.
Lastly, the newspaper came in second for Best Special Section. We submitted the 2009 football section, called “Big.”
The judge wrote, "The only thing that kept it from first place is that it wasn’t as comprehensive as (another paper's) section. No fear, though, I know the readers pulled it out to refer to in preparation for every Friday night."
I did the cover, which was a riff on the movie, "The Incredible Hulk."
Travis Jenkins did all the writing for the section.
Go to OnlineChester.com and enter "2009 Chester County Football Preview: BIG" into the search field and you'll get the stories.
I received some of them, and the first one is one that I am honored to have had the chance to write.
I received a first place award for Excellence in Feature Writing among papers that come out more than once a week, but not daily.
The judge wrote, "I’ve read a lot of stories about World War II veterans, and I’ve read a lot of stories about D-Day. Didn’t think I wanted to read another, but the story of Buddy Ernanadez was vivid and involving, capturing both the humor and horror of that experience. It also benefited from a nice lede that deviated from the predictable. … Guilfoyle weaves together the memories of friends and coworkers to fashion a fond and funny portrait of a beloved community figure. It also benefits from a beautiful ending that comes full-circle."
Read that story, BACK TO THE BEACH: Ernandez returning to Normandy one final time," here.
I also received a second place for Excellence in Editorial Writing.
"The author tackles tough subjects such as race, corruption and poverty with reason, conviction and moral courage. He also takes on a county attorney without blinking an eye. Bravo."
I submitted the same editorials to the SCPA, and received first place for them.
The editorials considered were, "Picking on the poor," about Gov. Mark Sanford; "Should he have mentioned it?" about former Superintendent Larry Heath; and "County wrong to threaten to sue," about the county threatening to sue county residents during the Fort Lawn situation.
I received a second place award for Best News or Feature Story Series.
The judge wrote, "A newspaper reporter hears about a state report that indicates that the county ranks second in the state for lung cancer and third for colorectal cancer. He could write the news story and move onto the next assignment. Or he could do a series on the cancer rates and risks. Fortunately for the readers in Chester County, The News & Reporter chose the latter."
The Cancer series is online in the Feature section of OnlineChester.com. The story that kicked off the series can be read here: "CANCER IN CHESTER COUNTY: County ranks in top five in some categories."
Do a search for "Cancer in Chester County" and the rest of series will come up as the first results.
I received a third place award for Best On-Going / Extended Coverage
"Guilfoyle and another reporter took a tip and a bunch of documents and turned them into a good investigative piece about questionable purchases of surplus property. The accompanying letter notes that The News & Reporter was the only media outlet working the story to routinely go to the official involved in the controversy, the chief deputy, for comment. That’s commendable."
That was the Fort Lawn controversy. It is in archives of OnlineChester.com. It started with two stories, this one by me, "State, SLED reviewing purchases, and this one by Travis Jenkins, "Former councilmen express surprise at outcome of meeting."
The paper won a third place award for Best Front Page Design; Phyllis Lucas did the work on these pages and got the award.
The judge said, "Clean design, nice use of photos and entry points. Your photo choice with the fire story was right on. But it might’ve been good to get that dominant photo above the fold, maybe in a different layout so readers don’t just see black smoke."
Here's that page ---
Phyllis also got a second place award for Best General Page Design.
The judge wrote, "The pages in this entry were well-balanced and had a good range of photos and other elements. What could take this entry to the next level would be adding more white spaces between stories and rules and having even more of a hierarchy among some of the photos."
I'd like to display the pages, but I'm not sure which ones were submitted.
Lastly, the newspaper came in second for Best Special Section. We submitted the 2009 football section, called “Big.”
The judge wrote, "The only thing that kept it from first place is that it wasn’t as comprehensive as (another paper's) section. No fear, though, I know the readers pulled it out to refer to in preparation for every Friday night."
I did the cover, which was a riff on the movie, "The Incredible Hulk."
Travis Jenkins did all the writing for the section.
Go to OnlineChester.com and enter "2009 Chester County Football Preview: BIG" into the search field and you'll get the stories.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Ordinations at the Diocese of Charlotte
Diocese of Charlotte Ordination 6-5-2010 from Diocese of Charlotte on Vimeo.
This is the first video prepared by The Catholic News & Herald, ably edited by my lovely bride, Patricia Larson Guilfoyle.
The ordination Mass was held on Saturday, June 5 at St. Mark Catholic Church in Huntersville, N.C.
Four men were ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Peter J. Jugis.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Newspaper brings home 13 SCPA awards, five first places
The News & Reporter took home 13 awards, including five first place awards, in the latest S.C. Press Association annual competition, with some staff members showing continued excellence in a couple of areas.
Sports Editor Travis Jenkins took home the first place award for writing the best sports columns for the third consecutive year.
"That's an actual hat trick, scoring three consecutive 'goals' like that," said Editor Stephen Guilfoyle of Jenkins' award. "It's the top prize for sports writers, so he's been the best at what he does for three years running now."
That competition was for papers that come out two and three times a week.
The judge said of his entry, "Nice tribute column to a lady who volunteered to send in race results. Feature column on singing fans made me smile, and writer offered a good opinion piece on the Bulldogs."
Guilfoyle won the Harris Award for Editorial Writing. In that competition, he went up against all the non-daily newspapers in the state.
It is the fifth time he's won the award in his career and the third time since joining The N&R in 2004.
"This newspaper does exactly what it should -- take stands on local issues in thoughtful, well-written editorials that make good cases for newspaper’s positions," the judge wrote.
The editorials considered were, "Picking on the poor," about Gov. Mark Sanford; "Should he have mentioned it?" about former Superintendent Larry Heath; and "County wrong to threaten to sue," about the county threatening to sue county residents during the Fort Lawn situation.
Guilfoyle also won first place in Profile Feature Writing or Story for 2/3 Times weekly newspaper for "Reserved Seating: Friends remember longtime officer," a story on community reaction to the death of longtime Chester Police Lt. Tommy Harrison.
The judge said, "Powerful, well-written story that leaves an impact with readers."
Guilfoyle also won a first place award for Page One Design at 2/3 Times a week papers.
"Nice use of graphics, photos and other elements," the judge wrote. "Designer has a gift for packaging lead story.
He also won the first and second place awards for Enterprise Reporting at 2/3 Times a week newspapers.
The first place award was for the story "'08 Brazil trip filled with work," on an economic development trip to Brazil.
"Interesting probe," the judge wrote of that story.
The second place award was for "$500 million incinerator," in which The N&R broke the news of the Covanta Energy project.
Jenkins also won second place awards for:
• Sports Enterprise Reporting, also an All-Weekly award, for coverage of where to play high school football's weekend of champions;
• News Headline Writing at 2/3 a week papers, and
• Spot Sports Story writing at Weekly 2/3 Times for "Downey raises the roof";
as well as third place awards for Sports Action Photo and Sports Feature Photo.
Great Falls Editor Nancy Parsons won a third place award for Lifestyle Feature Writing at 2/3 Times a week papers for "Eli touches bases and hearts."
She, Guilfoyle and Jenkins shared a second place award for Reporting In-Depth at 2/3 times a week papers for coverage of the school consolidation issue.
In all, Jenkins won seven awards, Guilfoyle won six, with Parsons getting two, including the shared award.
Jenkins' seven total awards were the most won by any journalist in the non-daily ranks.
"One thing the awards show is that we have to do a lot of different things each week at The News & Reporter," Guilfoyle said. "Travis excels at sports writing, but he also pitched in and wrote some news headlines, and those turned out to be award winners. He has always been an excellent photographer. Nancy won not just for a feature in her beloved beat of Great Falls, but also for working with the team to cover the county-wide news story that consolidation became."
"Being recognized by your peers is always good," said Publisher Buddy Aultman. "But when the economy creates an understaffed situation like we have at The News & Reporter, the awards mean even more. In recent years, we have had fewer people doing more and yet we managed to have a good 2009. The editorial awards are like icing on the cake."
In the past three years, Jenkins has won five first place awards and 17 total awards, making him one of the most honored journalists in the state.
In the past three years, Guilfoyle has won eight first place awards and 13 total awards.
In the past three years, Parsons has won five awards, including one first place.
The paper has won 68 awards in SCPA contests since 2005.
Two of The N&R's sister papers in South Carolina also won awards. The Lancaster News won seven awards including two first place awards. The Pageland Progressive-Journal won one.
Sports Editor Travis Jenkins took home the first place award for writing the best sports columns for the third consecutive year.
"That's an actual hat trick, scoring three consecutive 'goals' like that," said Editor Stephen Guilfoyle of Jenkins' award. "It's the top prize for sports writers, so he's been the best at what he does for three years running now."
That competition was for papers that come out two and three times a week.
The judge said of his entry, "Nice tribute column to a lady who volunteered to send in race results. Feature column on singing fans made me smile, and writer offered a good opinion piece on the Bulldogs."
Guilfoyle won the Harris Award for Editorial Writing. In that competition, he went up against all the non-daily newspapers in the state.
It is the fifth time he's won the award in his career and the third time since joining The N&R in 2004.
"This newspaper does exactly what it should -- take stands on local issues in thoughtful, well-written editorials that make good cases for newspaper’s positions," the judge wrote.
The editorials considered were, "Picking on the poor," about Gov. Mark Sanford; "Should he have mentioned it?" about former Superintendent Larry Heath; and "County wrong to threaten to sue," about the county threatening to sue county residents during the Fort Lawn situation.
Guilfoyle also won first place in Profile Feature Writing or Story for 2/3 Times weekly newspaper for "Reserved Seating: Friends remember longtime officer," a story on community reaction to the death of longtime Chester Police Lt. Tommy Harrison.
The judge said, "Powerful, well-written story that leaves an impact with readers."
Guilfoyle also won a first place award for Page One Design at 2/3 Times a week papers.
"Nice use of graphics, photos and other elements," the judge wrote. "Designer has a gift for packaging lead story.
He also won the first and second place awards for Enterprise Reporting at 2/3 Times a week newspapers.
The first place award was for the story "'08 Brazil trip filled with work," on an economic development trip to Brazil.
"Interesting probe," the judge wrote of that story.
The second place award was for "$500 million incinerator," in which The N&R broke the news of the Covanta Energy project.
Jenkins also won second place awards for:
• Sports Enterprise Reporting, also an All-Weekly award, for coverage of where to play high school football's weekend of champions;
• News Headline Writing at 2/3 a week papers, and
• Spot Sports Story writing at Weekly 2/3 Times for "Downey raises the roof";
as well as third place awards for Sports Action Photo and Sports Feature Photo.
Great Falls Editor Nancy Parsons won a third place award for Lifestyle Feature Writing at 2/3 Times a week papers for "Eli touches bases and hearts."
She, Guilfoyle and Jenkins shared a second place award for Reporting In-Depth at 2/3 times a week papers for coverage of the school consolidation issue.
In all, Jenkins won seven awards, Guilfoyle won six, with Parsons getting two, including the shared award.
Jenkins' seven total awards were the most won by any journalist in the non-daily ranks.
"One thing the awards show is that we have to do a lot of different things each week at The News & Reporter," Guilfoyle said. "Travis excels at sports writing, but he also pitched in and wrote some news headlines, and those turned out to be award winners. He has always been an excellent photographer. Nancy won not just for a feature in her beloved beat of Great Falls, but also for working with the team to cover the county-wide news story that consolidation became."
"Being recognized by your peers is always good," said Publisher Buddy Aultman. "But when the economy creates an understaffed situation like we have at The News & Reporter, the awards mean even more. In recent years, we have had fewer people doing more and yet we managed to have a good 2009. The editorial awards are like icing on the cake."
In the past three years, Jenkins has won five first place awards and 17 total awards, making him one of the most honored journalists in the state.
In the past three years, Guilfoyle has won eight first place awards and 13 total awards.
In the past three years, Parsons has won five awards, including one first place.
The paper has won 68 awards in SCPA contests since 2005.
Two of The N&R's sister papers in South Carolina also won awards. The Lancaster News won seven awards including two first place awards. The Pageland Progressive-Journal won one.
Friday, April 2, 2010
What she saw on Good Friday
My wife just pasted this on Facebook:
Patricia Larson Guilfoyle: Just saw someone playing Jesus walking down Hwy. 160 in Fort Mill. it's Good Friday, all right!
I, being a smart ass, had a reply at the ready: How do you know it was someone playing Jesus? Could it have been ... Himself?
Remember what happened when the Irish priest got through to the Vatican, told the Pope, "I'm not crazy, but the Lord Jesus himself has returned and he's walking down the main street. Tell me what to DO!"
And the Pope says, "Look busy."
By the way. I like Jesus' sneakers.
Patricia Larson Guilfoyle: Just saw someone playing Jesus walking down Hwy. 160 in Fort Mill. it's Good Friday, all right!
I, being a smart ass, had a reply at the ready: How do you know it was someone playing Jesus? Could it have been ... Himself?
Remember what happened when the Irish priest got through to the Vatican, told the Pope, "I'm not crazy, but the Lord Jesus himself has returned and he's walking down the main street. Tell me what to DO!"
And the Pope says, "Look busy."
By the way. I like Jesus' sneakers.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
My wife's new job
I'm going to have to update the home page of my old website, that this blog is someday to replace.
It has the Fort Mill Times on it.
Anyway, Patricia is now editor of The Catholic News & Herald, the newspaper of the diocese of Charlotte.
She sent me an e-mail about a "daunting" aspect of her new job.
She had to edit a piece from 1750 words to 450. So you ask, "So?"
The writer is the Pope.
I e-mailed her back, saying, "What's so daunting about editing the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, the Primate of Italy, the Archbishop and the Metropolitan of the Roman Province, the Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, the Servant of the Servants of God?"
Everybody needs an editor, my old senior editor Phil Hudgins used to write.
I mean, the pope doesn't write his column while sitting on the Holy See, see?
(That would denote he is speaking, or writing, ex cathedra, or infallibly.)
Anyway, it was tough for her to leave her old gig behind.
Patricia's passion was the paper
It was with a lot of soul-searching that my wife, Patricia Larson Guilfoyle, decided to take another job.
She will probably add this letter to the things for which she wants to kill me, but she’s also, to a fault, someone who will keep things inside way too much, not wanting a fuss.
More than 11 years ago, she came to Fort Mill to take on the position of as publisher-editor of the Fort Mill Times. She thought it a good job, a step up from where she’d been. She thought the paper needed some help, and she had the skills to do what needed to be done. It was within her professional reach.
One of the things she thought the paper needed was a restored sense of presence in the community. To do that, she threw herself into several different activities and groups, including the Fort Mill Rotary Club, the chamber, the downtown association. She kept herself pretty busy.
She brought the paper around financially, and advanced it to where it was profitable, and also again one of the most awarded, respected large weeklies in the state of South Carolina. She ended up in more than one leadership role in those clubs, and also worked her way up to becoming the president of the S.C. Press Association. All at a very young age, I might add.
If one simply looks at her resume, she is one hell of a journalist and one hell of a businesswoman.
But her job in Fort Mill, from the earliest stages, became more than just a job.
She took on other assignments from her company because her company needed her skills. She did all those other jobs to the best of her abilities, and she did them well.
But it was always the Times and Fort Mill Township that had her heart.
Over the years she would introduce me to several people. Old guys, mostly. They all flirted with her; she tried her best to flirt back. Never anything serious in the conversation as I watched, but once they left, she’d tell me of the respect she held for those men. They are of that Greatest Generation and they are the men who built Fort Mill into something. Many are forgetting those men. But she never did, and always made a point to get them in the paper, to point them out to me.
It’s without a doubt, if she could have remained simply as the publisher of the Fort Mill Times, and been able to do her job the way she wanted it done, the difficult decision she made to leave would probably have been impossible. But her decision also has a lot to do with our family and her desire to find more time to spend with our son.
So, she made a hard choice. She worked about 60 hours her last week with the Times and parent company McClatchy, finishing up Jan. 29. She started her new job Feb. 1.
Because she won’t, I would like to let you know, on her behalf, how much she loved her time with the paper, how important all the readers were to her, and how much she loves Fort Mill. She’ll miss it, greatly.
Her new position is in North Carolina, but that doesn’t mean we’re leaving.
We’re staying right here, because she loves it, and she’s taught me to love it as well. This is a place that gets under your skin, in a good way.
On her behalf, I’d like to thank the readers of the Times for 11great years.
Stephen Guilfoyle
It has the Fort Mill Times on it.
Anyway, Patricia is now editor of The Catholic News & Herald, the newspaper of the diocese of Charlotte.
She sent me an e-mail about a "daunting" aspect of her new job.
She had to edit a piece from 1750 words to 450. So you ask, "So?"
The writer is the Pope.
I e-mailed her back, saying, "What's so daunting about editing the Bishop of Rome, the Vicar of Jesus Christ, the Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, the Primate of Italy, the Archbishop and the Metropolitan of the Roman Province, the Sovereign of the State of Vatican City, the Servant of the Servants of God?"
Everybody needs an editor, my old senior editor Phil Hudgins used to write.
I mean, the pope doesn't write his column while sitting on the Holy See, see?
(That would denote he is speaking, or writing, ex cathedra, or infallibly.)
Anyway, it was tough for her to leave her old gig behind.
Patricia's passion was the paper
It was with a lot of soul-searching that my wife, Patricia Larson Guilfoyle, decided to take another job.
She will probably add this letter to the things for which she wants to kill me, but she’s also, to a fault, someone who will keep things inside way too much, not wanting a fuss.
More than 11 years ago, she came to Fort Mill to take on the position of as publisher-editor of the Fort Mill Times. She thought it a good job, a step up from where she’d been. She thought the paper needed some help, and she had the skills to do what needed to be done. It was within her professional reach.
One of the things she thought the paper needed was a restored sense of presence in the community. To do that, she threw herself into several different activities and groups, including the Fort Mill Rotary Club, the chamber, the downtown association. She kept herself pretty busy.
She brought the paper around financially, and advanced it to where it was profitable, and also again one of the most awarded, respected large weeklies in the state of South Carolina. She ended up in more than one leadership role in those clubs, and also worked her way up to becoming the president of the S.C. Press Association. All at a very young age, I might add.
If one simply looks at her resume, she is one hell of a journalist and one hell of a businesswoman.
But her job in Fort Mill, from the earliest stages, became more than just a job.
She took on other assignments from her company because her company needed her skills. She did all those other jobs to the best of her abilities, and she did them well.
But it was always the Times and Fort Mill Township that had her heart.
Over the years she would introduce me to several people. Old guys, mostly. They all flirted with her; she tried her best to flirt back. Never anything serious in the conversation as I watched, but once they left, she’d tell me of the respect she held for those men. They are of that Greatest Generation and they are the men who built Fort Mill into something. Many are forgetting those men. But she never did, and always made a point to get them in the paper, to point them out to me.
It’s without a doubt, if she could have remained simply as the publisher of the Fort Mill Times, and been able to do her job the way she wanted it done, the difficult decision she made to leave would probably have been impossible. But her decision also has a lot to do with our family and her desire to find more time to spend with our son.
So, she made a hard choice. She worked about 60 hours her last week with the Times and parent company McClatchy, finishing up Jan. 29. She started her new job Feb. 1.
Because she won’t, I would like to let you know, on her behalf, how much she loved her time with the paper, how important all the readers were to her, and how much she loves Fort Mill. She’ll miss it, greatly.
Her new position is in North Carolina, but that doesn’t mean we’re leaving.
We’re staying right here, because she loves it, and she’s taught me to love it as well. This is a place that gets under your skin, in a good way.
On her behalf, I’d like to thank the readers of the Times for 11great years.
Stephen Guilfoyle
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
History does repeat itself
Years ago, when I first started working in Chester, and we got more aggressive about getting scoops and posting scoops on the web and taking a little journalistic pride in those scoops.
We got busy. By the time I was named editor, I had created my in-home "breaking news list."
And I got a request from someone to join that list. It was our competition. I liked that. What a hoot.
I might still have the e-mail somewhere. It's the little things like that in life that make you smile, most days. So it was probably a keeper. But we made a little house ad out of it, that we ran occasionally.
Said something like, "When your competition wants to be on your breaking news list, you know you're Chester County's No. 1 news source." Something like that. And it instructed readers on how to join the list.
They aren't really covering Chester County anymore. Not like they used to. Not like they ever really got much of anything first. My first editor at the paper before I took over actually did a little comparison sheet on when we got stories and when they got stories. That's back when they had a Chester County reporter assigned and about four others who would jump on certain stories out of their beats. So they had seven print opportunities to beat us to our two to beat them, and they had us out-resourced by about eight to four, if you counted their photographers.
But they couldn't come close.
Anyway, they are a shell of what they used to be. So I don't take the amount of glee in it I used to. But, as the title says, history does repeat itself.
I rarely use my twitter account. But what I do use it for is to post breaking news. It feeds from Twitter into Facebook, (which I call, "The Face"). So I can kill two birds with one stone and get the word out.
We got busy. By the time I was named editor, I had created my in-home "breaking news list."
And I got a request from someone to join that list. It was our competition. I liked that. What a hoot.
I might still have the e-mail somewhere. It's the little things like that in life that make you smile, most days. So it was probably a keeper. But we made a little house ad out of it, that we ran occasionally.
Said something like, "When your competition wants to be on your breaking news list, you know you're Chester County's No. 1 news source." Something like that. And it instructed readers on how to join the list.
They aren't really covering Chester County anymore. Not like they used to. Not like they ever really got much of anything first. My first editor at the paper before I took over actually did a little comparison sheet on when we got stories and when they got stories. That's back when they had a Chester County reporter assigned and about four others who would jump on certain stories out of their beats. So they had seven print opportunities to beat us to our two to beat them, and they had us out-resourced by about eight to four, if you counted their photographers.
But they couldn't come close.
Anyway, they are a shell of what they used to be. So I don't take the amount of glee in it I used to. But, as the title says, history does repeat itself.
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