By deeanndmathews on Skatehive
Mrs. Thalia Ludlow chuckled darkly … the Tinyville Times' staff tended to avoid county politics when they could because they didn't generally have to get into all that, but the Big Loft Bulletin had been shamed into running deeper coverage of everything by the Lofton County Free Voice and Uppity Foolery Watch online. “Listen, we gotta get the scoop sometimes – blast a pandemic!” J.B. Madison III had finally thundered to his newsroom. “We are the professionals – we cannot let this collection of Black community activists and kids with camera phones outdo us!” So, the Big Loft Bulletin had been using its professional access and reputation to get off-the-record sources to point them to information they could put on the record … like the exact proposal coming up at the next county board of supervisors meeting with some supervisor's idea to get the money together to repair the damage from Hurricane Mneme. “They want to charge a fee for doing what?” she said as she discovered this information