Author Archives: Bob Hunter

Now I understand

By Bob Hunter | Published: July 29, 2010 | 0 Comments
Just got back from 5-6 days of flying and spending time on the East Coast, including Washington, D.C. Now I understand why they can’t get anything done back there — nobody could get anything done in that weather. 103 degrees in D.C. is an entirely different deal from 103 in Medford. You simply cannot function [...]
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Racing pigs

By Bob Hunter | Published: July 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
A couple of days ago I wrote that were it not for some breaking news, we would have had racing pigs at the fair on the front page. Today we have racing pigs at the fair on the front page. We had some good news stories (Harry & David, shooting trial), but racing pigs was [...]
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Too friendly with ‘friends’?

By Bob Hunter | Published: July 21, 2010 | 0 Comments
A candidate for Medford City Council says I should abstain from participating in editorial endorsements for the council because two of the incumbent candidates are “friends” on my Facebook list. At first glance, it does seem like a conflict, but maybe not so much on further review. Certainly, if I had identified the two incumbents (Bob [...]
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Changing plans in mid-paper

By Bob Hunter | Published: July 20, 2010 | 0 Comments
The plan for each day’s newspaper generally takes shape over the course of the preceding day. Some stories are in the works for days in advance, but often it’s a turn-and-burn process. The stories we’re writing today will for the most part run in tomorrow’s newspaper – then again there are those days when things don’t end up [...]
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TGIF … or not

By Bob Hunter | Published: July 16, 2010 | 0 Comments
Fridays are the happiest of the five typical work days for most folks. Less so in a newspaper newsroom, where Fridays come attached to Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Many stories written for the weekend are features or stories advancing something that will occur in the following week. There are, of course, the weekend events, accidents, etc. that are [...]
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Not so funny

By Bob Hunter | Published: May 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
Some days the funnies are not so funny and today is definitely one of those days: We ran a full page of yesterday’s comics and crossword. (For those of you astrologically inclined, you’ll be relieved to know that the horoscope was actually the right one, so you can proceed with your day accordingly.) The bad news [...]
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Traffic? What traffic?

By Bob Hunter | Published: May 19, 2010 | 0 Comments
Traffic is in the news in the Rogue Valley, but having just survived a trip to and from the periphery of the Bay Area, I have to say that when it comes to traffic, we just don’t how good we have it. At about 3 p.m. on Saturday, we found ourselves in one of your good old-fashioned urban [...]
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The right word

By Bob Hunter | Published: April 22, 2010 | 0 Comments
“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”  Ben Franklin Sometimes when we’re here too late in the evening, trying to edit that last story — the one that inevitably needs a lot of work — the temptation is to say “close enough,” spellcheck it and move it on down the [...]
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Forum moderation coming

By Bob Hunter | Published: March 30, 2010 | 0 Comments
A new chapter is approaching in the ongoing effort to figure out how best to manage reader forums. Beginning Monday, April 5, forum posts will be reviewed before they go live. The idea behind this, obviously, is to cut down on the objectionable, attack-posts that too often sidetrack conversations on the forums. We have no intention of censoring posts [...]
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Covering ceremonies, press conferences

By Bob Hunter | Published: March 8, 2010 | 0 Comments
We’ve had a couple of questions raised about why we didn’t cover a few recent events. The short answer is that we want to cover the news, not necessarily the event. The two events were a candidate’s press conference, announcing that he would run for a county commissioner’s seat, and the city of Medford’s 125th anniversary [...]
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