Focus is Going to Need A Bigger Cap

Well, now we know where Olga is! She'll be appearing in the pages of the new daily newspaper in Freeport and the surrounding areas. Yes, Olga Gize-Carlile, award-winning journalist and former 40 year contributor to The Journal-Standard, is joining the new team. This news, coupled with the hiring of Alan Jones as the editor, adds another feather in the cap for this transition from a weekly paper to a daily paper. There are probably not too many "new" newspapers that are being launched in the United States currently. Many newspapers are folding or merging with other papers, or are drastically cutting their costs via layoffs, and reduced expenditures. Major newspapers are hurting for advertising revenue and subscriptions are dropping with the widespread dissemination of news on the internet, television and various forms of radio.

This isn't stopping AdPix, Inc. and their investors from venturing into charted waters and facing the old guard in a good old-fashioned showdown. The publisher for the "other" paper even commented in the story that announced that The Freeport Focus was going to a daily format that they were "ready to rumble." They started off their rumbling by "terminating" the best-loved and most widely read of their contributors, Olga Carlile. Her picture and the constant reminder of her "Journalist of the Year" award were plastered on the front page of the paper for almost a year after she her accolade was announced. Then when she was walked to the door and unceremoniously released from her writing endeavors at the "home" she has known for 40 some years, there was nary a word in the paper about it.

Rumble, I guess, has multiple meanings. That could signify the sound heard when someone is thrown under the bus, or perhaps the "rumbling" sound one hears from a nervous stomach when one is under great duress and about to face the unknown. Of course, the "rumble" referred to was referring to the announcement at the start of a "professional" wrestling match, and if that is the case, I think I'll place my bet on the heavyweight division... and stay Focused.

Stay tuned, because this town is about to get interesting.