Join Kentucky author and journalist Tim Farmer and some friends as they carry on a lively conversation about Small Town Journalism: Then and Now. Joining Tim is Crittenden Press Editor Chris Evans, former Editor John Lucas, and former Crittenden Press journalist, Daryl Tabor.
About his book, This Ain't The New York Times: Confessions of a Community Journalist:
Tim Farmer began his journalism career at a tiny paper in western Kentucky, where cows wandering onto the golf course made front page news. It was there he started writing a column, which he dubbed “Farmer’s Almanac” and awaited the copyright infringement lawsuit, but it never came. Buckle up and hear about a car powered by corn cobs, learn a new vocabulary while exploring the relationship between plumbing and profanity, and hear about the length some readers went to just to get a letter in the local newspaper. “This Ain’t The New York Times” reveals some of the challenges editors at small papers face every day, like staring down death while trying to get a photo at the local rodeo, or staring down death while cross-country skiing leashed to a bounding Irish Setter. Take a break from the day’s news and enjoy these short, light-hearted essays, collected here for the first time.
