[Bill: These latest firings, and the prediction that another 45 or so will be fired by year's end, is a direct result of the "white supremacist" boycott of the paper that started with the Christian Trejbal affair.

Good job everyone! Together, we can force them to love Southern whites or bankrupt!]

Roanoke Times Fires Another 21 Staffers
48 Down Since Last Year As Sales, Subscriptions Tank

7/7/2007 1:22:55 PM
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Roanoke, Virginia -- Southwest Virginia's least popular newspaper has been forced to fire another 21 staff members as a series of scandals has caused itz advertising and subscription revenue to tank.

The paper, which was involved in scandal earlier this year after it published the home addresses of tens of thousands of Virginia Concealed Carry Permit holders, saw a massive number of subscription and ad cancellations as a result, causing the already financially ailing paper to post another quarter of massive losses. The campaign against its editorial board member Christian Trejbal, who moved to Roanoke from Bend, Oregon in 2006, was spearheaded by the ANSWP, whom the Roanoke Times has blamed for bomb threats and other actions at Trejbal's house. The ANSWP denies any involvement in illegal activity, though it has distributed literature about the Roanoke Time's editorial board, which has been described as a "a Jew, a queer, and four Yankee women."

Landmark Communications, the privately held parent company of the Roanoke Times, is said to be considering selling the paper. Landmark has had a terrible past two years, as it has lost readership to internet websites, including this one, which operate at a fraction of its costs. The Greensboro News and Record and the Virginian Pilot, which have joined the Roanoke Times in having their editors call for a ban or other legal action against this website, have also lost money and been forced to lay off employees.

At the beginning of last year, the Roanoke Times employed 477 people full time. It now employs 429.

Landmark Communications was founded in the early 1950s by a group of communist-leaning Jewish bankers, who felt it was necessary to found a series of newspapers with the "social mission" of desegregating the South. The Virginian Pilot was the first anti-segregationist newspaper in the South, and the newspaper chain has maintained a policy of bringing failed editors and writers from Northern cities into Southern newspapers, who then publish articles and editorials attacking the culture of the white Southern working people they rule over.

The Roanoke Times and Landmark Commuications have failed to quantify their paper's losses, but anecdotal evidecne shows widespread rejection of their publications, including local boycott campaigns against them and visible and frequent physical aggression towards their advertising staff when they try to give away newspapers at local supermarkets and other public places.