Five more staffers canned by Halifax Media
At far left is a snapshot of the lead story offfered online early Saturday by the Daytona Beach News-Journal. It's got to be tough these days for the editor, Pat Rice, shown in the inset, having to come up with strong centerpiece stories with scores of reporters on the business desk to bang out the pro-chamber and ad authority PR fluff and no full-timers for Port Orange or Edgewater. That's what happens when you have to cut positions like the five this month and having a sixth employee quit. You end up with a headline like the gem next to Rice: 'Cincinnati may get Daytona tourism dollar.'DAYTONA BEACH -- As if the Daytona Beach tourism glad-handing story on attracting visitors from Ohio in the News-Journal isn't enough, the newspaper has reached even greater heights this morning with a week-old story on an alleged canoe theft as its lead story
Headlined in big print: "Flagler Police Beat: Flagler Beach woman accused of stealing landlord's canoe," is an eye-opener story -- a must read.
Even bigger than the headline is the oversized-jail mug of this sad-sack lady, who, according to the News-Journal, was arrested Nov. 9, on charges of stealing her landlord's canoe and being jailed briefly before making bail. Again, this alleged major crime situation occurred last Saturday -- not this one.
Even though the mugshot is enormous, it doesn't fill the pre-set centerpiece frame . Even the duplicated phrasing in the triple-deck headline with "Flagler Beach" repeated twice on the top line isn't enough to stretch it out.
You've got to handle it to News-Journal pocket pen protector-wearing Editor Pat Rice for making do with a lighter staff since five newsroom employees were sent packing earlier this month and a sixth one quit.
Here is a link to the Daytona Beach News-Journal's lead story: http://www.newsjournalonline.com/article/20131116/NEWS0402/131119665/1040?Title=Flagler-Police-Beat-Flagler-Beach-woman-accused-of-selling-landlord-8217-s-canoe
When you click the link and you get a big square saying you have to pay, then that means you've used up your five free clicks to the News-Journal website and have to fork over 10 bucks. There's more below the bix cash box for the News-Journal. So keep scrolling...
At left is a snapshot from the Google online news directory at 8:45 a.m. Saturday showing Headline Surfer's story on the News-Journal's canoe story and mispelled tourism headline story trending.