Then there's the archives. There are none. It's as if Greensboro and the works of every reporter at the N&R never existed until this very week. As another free writer pointed out, the names of some of the N&R reporters are even misspelled. What an awful insult to everyone who has ever worked for the N&R, labored to put their words in print and to the many of us who commented on their blogs and stories sometimes leaving behind tips that lead to even bigger stories-- something the print version of the N&R could have never accomplished.
Trust me, having had to pull the plug on a blog I paid to host for over 10 years, I know how much it hurts to watch everything disappear from public view. Yes, BloggingPoet.com is still around but it is only a shadow of it's former self. I will never have the energy to rebuild the tens of thousands of pages I lost and neither will the reporters of the N&R.
As for the technical aspects of the new N&R website... Seriously folks, you could have linked together a couple dozen free, free, I tell you blogger/blogspot templates (you're allowed up to 100 per account and if you need more you start another account) with a custom designed theme and let Google pay to host the damn thing. I've done it for my own customers. Your RSS feeds and commenting would work, you would have built in aggregation of content between sites, video... everything you paid this
Being constantly accused of being of the tin foil hat crowd I could easily assume that this was in-fact intentional as Greensboro's "movers and shakers" who are also the News & Record's biggest advertisers decided this history was too much for them to bear and longer and must be erased. But being what it is I'll just go with the overwhelming opinion that Robin Sauls and the management of the N&R are in-fact morons who have no business owning and running a public institution as important and valuable as a newspaper. Proof yet again that you can have more money than sense.
