August In Our Fair City
Aug 18, 2009 16:02 - 1 Comment
Gentle Readers:In newspaper circles, they call late August the “silly season.” This dates from days of yore when summer really changed the landscape of things. People went on vacation, offices closed. It was the time of year when not much happens. It’s called the silly season because newspapers, which had to fill page after page of newsprint every day, would choose this time to trot out the silly stories that made you scratch your head: >This is news?
Well, no, it wasn’t, but there were inches to fill. In the world of online volunteer local news sites, we don’t have that problem!
And so, while the world no longer slows down as much as it did, in many ways summer is still a slow news time. It’s also a time when people take a bit of a break! And so you may see our volume of stories decrease as we head into the bottom innings of summer.
Rest assured, we’re still here, and as things pick back up (typically when school starts up again) the stories will become more plentiful.
Meantime, enjoy your silly season.
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At least there’s some awareness of the late-summer issue. The banner on Drudge his morning has Obama quoted as as how the news seems to get “all wee weed up” this time of year. Of course, it does make for the perfect time of year to ram things through local planning commissions across this nation of ours (or, at least it used to be ours before we let the bankers steal it all)