March 10, 2006
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT...
Salad Boy was on the front page of the Tampa Tribune today for a story on student dress codes. You can click here to see a full-size version of the page.
Those are my ratty shoes he’s wearing. (We forgot his nice shoes at home.) That's his mother's Kiss concert t-shirt. Oh, and he’s not wearing a belt.
My wife was not pleased about the shoes.
What she doesn't know: the page is featured on the Newseum site (second row, eight pages over).
Pray for me.
A side note: I stopped this morning at Starbucks near our home. You have no idea how surreal it is to watch a stranger walk to the counter with a picture of your son on the cover of the newspaper she's holding and pay for it.
Another side note: I told him he’d be big stuff at school today after everyone saw the paper. He was nonplussed.
“Dad, no one reads the paper.”
"What about the teachers?'' I asked.
"They don't read it either."
Ouch.
I volunteer in a high school journalism class. Salad Boy is right. Even in this small town where you'd think everyone read every word of the local daily, hardly anyone including teachers reads the paper. Occasionally I hear a comment about something in a metro paper or USA Today but not very often. LD claims 7,000 circulation in city of 17,000 not counting surrounding rural areas where paper should be serving. As you say, "Ouch."
Posted by: emil at March 11, 2006 07:51 AMOuch! Better put s'more time into MySpace, afterall.
Posted by: k at March 13, 2006 08:43 AM