Why I Love the Tribune

I sometimes wonder why the Tribune goes to the trouble to publish a paper. And I always wonder why I read it! Take the following article on the front page of Mondays edition.

Woman stranded
on rock on Yadkin
River

At around 9 - 9:30 p.m.,
the Yadkin County Rescue
Squad responded to a call
from the Yadkin County
Sheriff’s Department that a
woman was in the Yadkin
River.
“Right now, all I can tell
you is we have a woman
stranded on a rock in the
middle of the river,” said
Wayne Matthews. “We
have a crew of six people
down on the river. We’re in
the process of putting a boat
in the river.”
Matthews was not aware
how the woman ended on
the rock.

As I read it these thoughts came to me. 9:30pm when? last night, Saturday night? Six nights ago? of six years ago? I can only assume it was somewhere in Yadkin County since the Yadkin Sheriff's office called it in. Of course it could have been in Surry County since the Yadkin splits those counties. Or maybe Forsyth for that matter. Heck, Yadkin County is pretty big so maybe that rock on the river was floating and they did think it was all that important to report the actual location. I'd like to know so I could use that rock if I happen to fall in the river some time. Matthews, as you will note from the article, didn't know how the woman ended on the rock and the reported apparently didn't think it was important or didn't care enough to go down to the river and ask her. Maybe this is something thay happens a lot in Yadkin County but if that is the case why put it in the paper.

Note the Tribune is published at about noon on Monday and that there is no report as to whether the crew of six rescued her of even if they got the boat in the water. So 9:30pm, when ever, should have given them time to go down to da river and get da story. But that would require some thought and action. What I really wonder is: why the article at all?