News Munchies

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Originally Posted Sunday, 27 June 2010 at 12:00 AM
Updated Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 03:40 PM

We're journalists at heart.

Writers. Columnists. Editors. Scribes and scribblers. Critics. Commentators. Pundits. Communicators. Even -- we'd like to think -- wordsmiths.

So we've been distressed that we have lacked the personnel and energy around here to adequately support our Contacts On Tap™ on-line media directory and its patrons AND, at the same time, keep up with the narrative copy side of our little enterprise, CornerBarPR.com^®.

That's about to change.

Now that we've decided to close our Contacts On Tap media database after 8 1/2 years, we are planning to return to what we love: Communications -- primarily by the written word.

We have improvements in the planning stage, but it will take us a few weeks to implement them.

Be patient, and come along for the ride.

We're planning to have some fun.

About The Author

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR

Richard B. Barger, ABC, APR, is well-positioned as CornerBarPR's Chief Curmudgeon; he's our version of Andy Rooney -- loves words, particularly loves to complain about idiocy.

In his spare time, Rich runs the inventively named Barger Consulting, where he conducts strategic communications planning and research, and gives people advice whether they want it or not.

Through the years, Rich has tricked unsuspecting folks into giving him positions as managing editor of the public relations division of a 180-person agency, and as a wire service editor, an economic analyst, a federal investigator, and, bless his little muddy boots, a farmer. Really. He fancies himself a pretty fair country editor and at one time was famous among about half a dozen people as "The Voice of IABC."

At various points in what passes for a career, he's done time as a member of IABC, PRSA, and NSPRA, as well as the Gifted Association of Missouri, the University of Missouri Alumni Association, the Council of Better Business Bureaus (as a Senior Arbitrator), and a handful of church choirs.

Known as "Boom-Boom Barger" in Marching Mizzou, Rich refuses to answer the phone during University of Missouri football or basketball games, plays a hard-edged game of bridge, and is married to a woman he doesn't like to talk about much, because she's smarter and much nicer than he is.

Barger's motto: "Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once."