Editorials

By the time this column hits your mailbox, Kristi and I will be just days from our daughter's wedding. Many of you read about Holly as she grew up over the last quarter century and we are definitely turning a life page.
It turns out we like her fiancée and got that hit man called off just in time. We view this not as losing a daughter but gaining a son. People say this a lot when they obviously don't mean it, but the boy understands barbecue and the 2nd Amendment.

The newspaper industry has got to be the slowest of all when it comes to charging what we're worth.
Subscription and newsstand revenues have never, and never will be, the main source of revenue for a newspaper. Advertising revenue has always been what keeps a newspaper afloat.
When I came on board with The Nashville Graphic 34 years ago, the newsstand price per copy was 25 cents. A subscription for home delivery was $17.70 per year. Looking at today's subscription rate, that's only a 65 cents increase per year!

This photo published in The Nashville Graphic on August 27, 1964. A stack of liquor stills were shown indicating the volume of moonshine business in Nash County. ABC Chief Curtis Womble had the pile of copper and steel ready to transfer to Alec Rawls Wrecking Company which paid $728.34 for it.