• Cecil Whig, Thursday, June 23, 2011 4:47 PM

Yes, we admit that we needed to look up what community is served by the Cecil Whig (Cecil County, Md., natch). But readers of the small daily were assured in today's editorial that the Whig isn't enduring the same problems as a neighboring paper, the Wilmington News Journal, which was affected by owner Gannett's cuts announced earlier this week.

Sounding the bugle in defense of local community papers, the writer notes that the Whig has been surviving crisis after crisis for 170 years (it was born to promote the Whig political party) -- including a fatal duel between the paper's founder and the editor of the cross-town Cecil Democrat (guess who won?) -- and "is not going anywhere."

"While it's true papers such as the Whig face many of the same challenges as the larger metropolitan papers that get most of the attention," the editorial states, "it's also true that we're affected to a smaller degree. We remain the source of local news and advertising, and will continue to do so in print and online."

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