Something’s Afoot in Area Newspaper Arena

Posted by Bob Gernert on February 22, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Various bits and pieces of information indicate changes will soon occur in the area newspaper landscape. Our prediction is that a big announcement is forthcoming that will change the area media ownership and composition. Stay tuned.

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  • February 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
    C. Holly

    Can you be more specific?

  • February 27th, 2008 at 6:03 am
    Bill Johnson

    No one wants to talk about the issue with the Citrus Festival???????

  • February 29th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
    Shelley Rowan

    Sure, I’ll talk about the The Citrus Festival. It has declined over the years, and so have the attendance numbers. There are reasons that people have stopped going, one of which is that the festival has become seedy and not a place people want to take their kids.

  • March 3rd, 2008 at 6:11 am
    Bill Johnson

    The Citrus Festival has no support from the Citrus Commission or Florida Citrus Mutual. You would think these organizations are run by politicians. Maybe we should have a Polk County Fair only. The people that operate the festival are hard working people and have tried for 10 years to make it work. The cooking contest, animal show for kids to participate and karoke contest are big hits. What will happen to these now?

  • March 3rd, 2008 at 2:51 pm
    Shelley Rowan

    Let’s get back to the newspaper discussion. What’s the big announcement? Are you alluding to changes the News Chief or the Ledger? Either? Both? The News Chief was recently sold to GateHouse Media. Now what? Real people work at those places and they have families and bills. If they don’t know what’s going on, maybe someone could enlighten us via this forum. Someone knows something or the tease would not have started this page.

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