Defunct Observer newspaper pulls subscriber solicitation from its website after being called out by NSBNews.net

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- The Observer removed its "subscription" offer on its website Tuesday, one day after NSBNews.net pointed out that solicitations for paid subscribers was posted even though the Observer weekly newspaper has not published for a month and its owners told the Daytona Beach News-Journal they had come to the end of the line.

The Observer's former editor, Robert Burns, now identifies himself on his personal Facebook page as employed with Hometown News. though the Fort Pierce-based weekly with a Southeast Volusia edition doesn't identify him as such.

The Observer continues its Facebook page minus Burns, but with its editorial content removed. Burns responded to NSBNews.net blogger Shira Beth Wild's column in which she said he was making defamatory comments about NSBNews.net while pushing a website project of his own.

Here is a link to Wild's blog and Burns' response underneath (http://www.nsbnews.net/content/407774-nsbnewsnet-cares-about-new-smyrna-beach-community) as well as an editor's note calling him out and expressing concern about potential subscribers being misled by the Observer's languishing website. Here is that link: http://www.nsbnews.net/content/407785-they-cant-stop-us-reporting-truth-news.