Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept/Oct 2014

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edition is still going strong. We can put
a lot of our print product online, but
there are still a great many people who
like to hold a newspaper that they can
read.”
Former Editor Bill Walker
echoed her belief that while online
newspapers may seem to be the way
of the world today, “I like to put my
hands on a newspaper, to fold it and
do the crossword puzzle, to spill coffee
on it! Like many other readers, I’m
just old-fashioned, I guess.”
In Walker’s view, “It’s truly local
news that’s the Moultrie’s bread and
butter. Other media may cover the so-
called ‘big stories,’ but people living
East of the Cooper turn to their local
newspaper for information about their
child’s school’s honor roll, what civic
organizations are raising money for
which charities, how their area schools
fared in athletic competition and so
much more.”
“Local news is so important to
the readers of the Moultrie News
that an armed robbery on Coleman
Boulevard can be seen as just as
significant as armed conflict in the
Middle East,” he added.
Another point that the two editors
agree on is that the newspaper has
always been very personal.
“Not a day goes by,” Witte said,
“that we don’t get an idea from a
reader about a loved one, a friend, a
neighbor or just someone they have
met who has an interesting story to
tell. If it’s a good idea, we rarely turn
it down.”
In Walker’s view, feedback is an
essential component of the Moultrie’s
success because “People want to be
able to talk to the editor and the
publisher. They want to feel that it’s
their newspaper.”
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