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Jimmy Cravens: A living legend of Kentucky Journalism 2012-02-14 - Campbellsville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith. Larry Smith, news anchor for FM 92.7, the WAVE, and FM 99.9 The Big Dawg, writes: "They don't seem to make newspaper people like my good friend Jimmy Cravens anymore. He wasn't afraid of 'nothing or nobody.' His graphic style riveted readers to the front page of The Central Kentucky News, one of the first media to truly erase county lines. Readers in Taylor, Adair, and Green Counties eagerly awaited delivery of each week's editions to the newsstands in Campbellsville, Greensburg, and Columbia. The photo is from a bound volume. Content was often controversial, but no one ignored the paper then. In his active years as an editor, Jimmy Cravens epitomized the old-school of journalism, as practiced by Cravens, Andrew Jackson Norfleet of the Russell Springs Times Journal, and Ro Gardner of the Hickman Courier, even Tom Gish of Whitesburg Mountain Eagle. -LARRY SMITH Permalink | Comments?

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