Post by Editor in Chief on May 25, 2008 3:46:39 GMT
-By Ptragical Ptabloid
It was a sad day on April 27th (RW) when one Asha ros Liadan (168) declared the Green Slab to officially be on hiatus after overshooting its publishing date by almost a full two weeks. Had the paper been published it could very easily have caught flack from the editors and owners of the AM Daily for encroaching on the second paper's publishing schedule.
This is of course not the start of the troubles for the Agatean's own voice for the people, so to speak. Once a proud and powerful newspaper, with little regard for truth or quality in its content, The Green Slab came out every month on time under the leadership of the self-proclaimed Viscount Andrew d'Ackerly (366). Content of such a tabloid paper aside, the problem started when Sir d'Ackerly decided he was through with owning the newspaper and handed the reins over to Asha ros Liadan for an undisclosed price.
Miss ros Liadan purchased The Green Slab just in time for the 71st issue, which we at The Papyrus are sad to report was the last issue of the paper which was published on time. The news has come to print eight times under the leadership, if you can call it that, of Asha ros Liadan. Out of nine times the paper should have come out under her ownership, seven of those papers were late, one a full six days behind schedule, and the last one in fact never came out at all.
Looking back through the archives, a pattern running back almost two full years is easy to establish. While there were occassionally papers published a day or two behind schedule, The Green Slab did come out and with a high degree of consistancy. Was this entirely the time when Sir d'Ackerly was at the reins? Was this the culmination of all his hard work and effort at hand? Could a change in ownership really cause such a dark rift in the normal workings of such a fine tuned machine as a coded newspaper? Or did the reporters finally grow tired of creating stories out of thin air?
Some say that Asha should have kept a tighter leash upon her reporters. Others claim to have quit as they could not bear to work underneath her. On either side of those claims though, it boils down to respect, something which the staff of The Green Slab had for Viscount Andrew d'Ackerly in droves and seem to have lacked entirely for Asha ros Liadan.
Much speculation is to be had upon this situation which, unfortunately, cuts deeply at the hearts of Slab readers. However, the biggest question which hovers over all of us and likely Andrew the most is whether the undisclosed price he received for the title of Green Slab owner was really worth seeing the such a fine tuned entity rotting by the side of the road, completely destroyed.
Never one to pass up an opportunity, The Papyrus would like to pose a question to Miss ros Liadan. Since you don't seem to want to use all the nice coded features of your paper, do you mind if we do?
It was a sad day on April 27th (RW) when one Asha ros Liadan (168) declared the Green Slab to officially be on hiatus after overshooting its publishing date by almost a full two weeks. Had the paper been published it could very easily have caught flack from the editors and owners of the AM Daily for encroaching on the second paper's publishing schedule.
This is of course not the start of the troubles for the Agatean's own voice for the people, so to speak. Once a proud and powerful newspaper, with little regard for truth or quality in its content, The Green Slab came out every month on time under the leadership of the self-proclaimed Viscount Andrew d'Ackerly (366). Content of such a tabloid paper aside, the problem started when Sir d'Ackerly decided he was through with owning the newspaper and handed the reins over to Asha ros Liadan for an undisclosed price.
Miss ros Liadan purchased The Green Slab just in time for the 71st issue, which we at The Papyrus are sad to report was the last issue of the paper which was published on time. The news has come to print eight times under the leadership, if you can call it that, of Asha ros Liadan. Out of nine times the paper should have come out under her ownership, seven of those papers were late, one a full six days behind schedule, and the last one in fact never came out at all.
Looking back through the archives, a pattern running back almost two full years is easy to establish. While there were occassionally papers published a day or two behind schedule, The Green Slab did come out and with a high degree of consistancy. Was this entirely the time when Sir d'Ackerly was at the reins? Was this the culmination of all his hard work and effort at hand? Could a change in ownership really cause such a dark rift in the normal workings of such a fine tuned machine as a coded newspaper? Or did the reporters finally grow tired of creating stories out of thin air?
Some say that Asha should have kept a tighter leash upon her reporters. Others claim to have quit as they could not bear to work underneath her. On either side of those claims though, it boils down to respect, something which the staff of The Green Slab had for Viscount Andrew d'Ackerly in droves and seem to have lacked entirely for Asha ros Liadan.
Much speculation is to be had upon this situation which, unfortunately, cuts deeply at the hearts of Slab readers. However, the biggest question which hovers over all of us and likely Andrew the most is whether the undisclosed price he received for the title of Green Slab owner was really worth seeing the such a fine tuned entity rotting by the side of the road, completely destroyed.
Never one to pass up an opportunity, The Papyrus would like to pose a question to Miss ros Liadan. Since you don't seem to want to use all the nice coded features of your paper, do you mind if we do?