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Windsor is a very large man who publishes a newspaper in Chapel Hill with the assistance of a dwarf, whom Windsor calls his bodyguard. The newspaper is called the Landmark, and it is published higgledy-piggledy. Sometimes it is a weekly, and sometimes it is a biweekly, and sometimes it is just, well, tardy. It is always popular, however, and whether the press run is 4,600, as it was for the first issue last June 10, or 20,000, as it was for the most recent issue, there are precious few copies, if any, left over at the office...
...goes with the Landmark, a publication whose revenues are as idiosyncratic as the interests of its editor, who does not give out figures except to say he has $100,000 invested in the thing. But what it loses in making money, he offers, it gains in making waves. Last year, for example, Windsor's big campaign was to win accreditation to cover University of North Carolina football games. The university claimed the press box was full. Windsor charged discrimination against small newspapers and covered the games from outside the stadium, until he got an invitation from Chancellor Christopher Fordham...
...with a plain white lavatory and plain white tub, a toilet paper holder that does not work, and that is all. There is not a filling station in Orange or Chatham County that does not have a better bathroom. It is plainer than an old shoe." Beyond that, the Landmark went on to insinuate that the management of the News & Observer has been known to "push biddies in the creek." Windsor admits he made up this heinous crime, drowning chicks, but says he was sore...
...region, these salvos appear to be met by bemusement more than anything else. There are journalism professors here who say the Landmark is a personal journal more than a newspaper and should be savored as one man's meat. Brent Hackney, the Governor's press secretary, calls Windsor "Hunter Thompson in bib overalls." And the cable television channel in Chapel Hill has given Windsor a 30-minute talk show on Friday nights, such is his newfound popularity...
...Landmark itself can make a reader feel beaned, but on a good day, amid its political ravings, and there are plenty of those, all conservative, it can lift the spirits, make you pause to hear the birds. Take, for example, "My Dog Squirt Is Home," the tale of a beagle hound that had been missing five months, only to turn up again...