This photo, by itself, is 100% more Homecoming parade photos than the Canadian-funded “local” news rags have given us this weekend. (Shelli Trumbull photo)
Oh, Canada…
The “local” papers you fund seem to think it’s still 1935 and everyone is waiting for their newspaper to arrive on the stoop mid-week, along with a couple of glass jugs of milk. Because that’s the only explanation I can think of for their absolute dereliction of duty these days.
Last week, Coupeville High School won its first football game of the season, thrashing Orcas Island 47-14 at a field ACROSS THE STREET from the building that houses the Whidbey News-Times, Whidbey Examiner and South Whidbey Record. It took them 63 hours, however, for the first news of that game to hit their websites.
You know, a website, the thing that powers news coverage in 2012.
During those 63 hours, coupevillesports.com — a one-man operation chugging along without a salary, a benefits package, free doughnuts in the break room and honorary Canadian citizenship granted by having your paychecks endorsed by Manitoba — posted nine articles.
This week, a little thing called Homecoming. A parade. A game. A half-time show. Sort of a big deal in a town the size of Coupeville.
And yet we sit here on Sunday morning, more than 36 hours since the game against Granite Falls ended, and what does Sound Publishing/Black Press and its “local” papers have to offer?
Diddly and squat. Cause it’s 1935, apparently.
Do I even need to mention that coupevillesports.com — one man in a bunker under Penn Cove typing on a computer run by three hamsters on a treadmill — has already posted eight articles (and numerous pictures from my vast network of local moms) during this time?
Cause it’s 2012 and there’s a thing called the internet.
Somewhere in the hinterlands of Canada, there’s a bean counter or two who has to be wondering just what their filthy Canuck greenbacks are paying for right now, because it certainly isn’t timely coverage of Coupeville sports and community events.
Must be some really incredible doughnuts in that break room.
Coupeville Sports 
For the record…I WANT my milk on the front porch. Do you have ANY IDEA how much cash you would make by bringing back a full service dairy? Glass bottles, cream, GOOD milk that doesn’t have plastic chemicals leaching into it from the packaging, real ice cream? I mean seriously man…think of it….all you need is roughly a thousand dairy cows. Now THAT would give the News-Times something to write about, if they could breathe through the stench.
And no, the gist of the article was not lost on me…