CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
The Charlotte Observer is a newspaper serving Charlotte, North Carolina, and its metro area. It has the largest circulation in North Carolina and South Carolina. It is owned by The McClatchy Company. (More from Wikipedia)
Last week I was reading the local paper and learned of the death of Kim Fowley (pronounced like “foul-y” not “foley” – and, yes, he is a guy). Mixed with sadness at his passing was my wonder at the size of the article about his death on the Obituary page in the Sun Herald. Entitled “Kim Fowley, Runaways’ Creator, Dies at 75”, it didn’t miss being a quarter of a page by a whole lot. I know that the Sun Herald is a Knight-Ridder newspaper (now McClatchy) – the Charlotte Observer is another of their papers that I am familiar with – but this Mississippi paper has surprised me more than once by giving prominence to hip news.
(January 2015/1)
