funny papers...

ok.. so Wendy's angry and defensive now as her frustrated grandiosity reaches the front page...I think we got her on the ropes!!

Sunday's front page reminded folks again about all the awards the News-Press has won from the California Newspaper Publishers Association....well someone told me that some facts were left out and sent this bit about the N-P TV ad with the dufus sitting by a lamp claiming to be in the dark without the News-Press... I thought it was pretty funny..so here it is...

"The News-Press has a television ad running in which people talk about why they subscribe. It ends with a man sitting by a lamp, saying: "I read the News-Press every day, because without it, I'm in the dark." Then he switches the lamp off.

Well if you read Scott Steepleton's story on Sunday about the annual newspaper awards handed out by the California Newspaper Publishers Association, you'd STILL BE IN THE DARK.

Steepleton, er, the News-Press, neglected to tell you about all the other local papers that won awards, among them:

The Daily Sound, one award; the Lompoc Record, two awards; the Santa Maria Sun, one award; the Santa Maria Times, four awards; the Santa Ynez Valley News, five awards.

And by the way, the Ventura County Star won eight awards, including a second-place for General Excellence. Among the Star's other awards were first-places for Best Writing, Best Online Coverage, Best Video and Best Website, in the same circulation size category in which the News-Press competed.

And would you believe the Santa Cruz Sentinel, another beach city newspaper, but with even smaller circulation than the News-Press, actually won 15 awards, TEN of them first place!

I'll put my lampshade back on now"......