What has become of Steve Kaylor?

A reader asks - "What has become of Steve Kaylor?" Don't know....other than he is now running the advertising department since Rob's departure for greener grass. He obviously isn't controlling his people - since all the staff reported not to publisher Steve Kaylor, but to Managing Editor Joe Stinnett in Lynchburg. Steve must be a lame duck - on his way out - if someone else is determining who works for the Register & Bee and who doesn't. That - IN THE PAST - was his job. Now he's an ad flunkie.

The woman over him...is over Joe....Terry Jamerson. Hmmmm...... whipped for sure now.

So, the DANVILLE paper is now operating out of Lynchburg. Layout, editing, design, ads, obituaries.....ALL out of Lynchburg. Do you really think a Danville, let alone a Reidsville paper, can really do justice to a LOCAL newspaper from Lynchburg?

The new assistant editor - Charles Wilborn has - what? NO reporting experience...and spends most of his time squealing and sending reporters to go to gang and drug shootings and car wrecks. Sorry Charles - that's not news. It sells newspapers - but it's not NEWS. People want to know what city council is doing, what's happening in the schools, what business is coming to Danville - what business is leaving.

I understand there is a lot of Mormon/LDS recruiting going on that staffers aren't happy with - but that no one will complain about.

How long can an office with so many problems and the only real power management in Lynchburg survive? We're about to find out.

Fold or remodel?

Well, which will it be? Fold or remodel? Apparently the decision HAS BEEN MADE to move the editorial layout to Lynchburg. Advertising layout and the obits and other layout functions have already been moved. That means more Danville dollars are trickling to the north and out of the local economy. Circulation keeps losing people - one-by-one. Local people who once laid out the paper will either have to commute or find other jobs. NOT surprising.

The newsroom hasn't been shuffled around yet, but since some editing is going to India, obits and ads are in Lynchburg and now the newspaper layout itself is in Lynchburg as of April 1, 2009 (not a joke), pretty soon we'll all have to go to Lynchburg to read the Danville News!

Maybe the NORTHERN end of the county will finally get some coverage now that the Danville paper is mostly stationed in Lynchburg eh?

IMPOTENCE at the Register & Bee

Ah....my Richmond sources tell me that basically Steve Kaylor is impotent....when it comes to managing the Register & Bee anyway. Seems that the Register & Bee is really run by Lynchburg. The R&B is a puppet for a Lynchburg puppet master. And Lynchburg has no intention of giving or appearing to give a damn about Danville, its advertisers or anything else. Sorry Danville...you're all being laughed at by Lynchburg. They've got your advertising dollars, your obits and your money and don't care at all that they screw up your ads, your delivery or your obits. THEY'RE PICKING YOUR POCKETS. Wake up. Or turn around bend over and pass the vaseline....cause Lynchburg's not done yet.

So sorry for you Steve...and here everyone thought you really had some power. You can't do anything but stand around with your hands in your pockets until Lynchburg says "JUMP SWEETHEART." Then you say "how high!"

Poor bastard.