Archive for July, 2008
Commenting on the TVUUC attack
Knoxville News Sentinel online guru Jack Lail ponders how to handle the most offensive comments that end up on news sites after a tragedy like yesterday’s church shooting.
My publisher sent me several emails over the weekend about complaints about hateful, invective, acidic and just generally mean-spirited reader comments on our newspaper Web sites.
And the [...]
Fox blogs Knox
Fox reporter Jonathan Serrie is doing some blogging on the church shootings from Knoxville.
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Bratton vs. Sisk
LVG breaks the race down, declaring it a contest between the “devil you know” and the one you don’t.
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Suffice it to say…
…that I am exhausted tonight - mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
Covering this story today was very difficult for me, but it really only hit me with full force after I left the newsroom and came home.
As a longtime, on-and off-again attendee of the church, I’ve spent many hours in that peaceful sanctuary with that group [...]
Sexual temptation and purity
The Parkridge neighborhood, one of the wonderful historic East Knoxville communities now experiencing a renaissance, was the subject of a prostitution sting last week. Residents were thrilled, as they have been actively working with KPD to try to get the johns trolling their neighborhood to go away.
The names and addresses of those arrested for solicitation [...]
Perhaps my journalistic sensibilities are too delicate…
…but this is not a headline I would have written, or published.
I understand that Coach Fulmer said that, and that he needs to be quoted accurately within the body of the story, but I wouldn’t have put that word - which many folks find offensive - in the headline. In fact, I was pretty shocked [...]
Going straight to the source
From Legal Times:
High Court Justices Go Digital to Access Founding-Era Documents
U.S. Supreme Court justices on both sides in the landmark D.C. v.
Heller gun rights case resorted to original documents in making their
case about the meaning of the Second Amendment. But they used a
little-known digital resource to get there, a project whose mission is
to digitize thousands [...]
Jimmy Duncan disagrees with Bill Hobbs
From the AP:
U.S. Rep. John “Jimmy” Duncan Jr. says barring news media from the annual state Republican fundraising dinner featuring former top White House adviser Karl Rove is “ridiculous.”
State GOP spokesman Bill Hobbs says the “Statesmen’s Dinner” in Nashville on Saturday is no different than other political fundraisers, which “are typically not [...]
Cornholin’ in Knoxville
Catch the Knoxville cornhole fever.
Heh.
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Neighborhoods and free swag
They are running a great contest with FREE STUFF over at Knoxify. Go check it out and enter!
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PHOTOBLOGGING: Back when local politics used to be more civil
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Pat Summitt sez…
Pat Summitt’s notably candid remarks about the Candace Parker-WNBA brawl:
Summitt, in Nashville on Thursday night for the UT All-Sports Picnic at Lipscomb, was New Orleans watching an AAU tournament when she got a text message about the WNBA incident.
Later she watched a taped replay. Her reaction: “I have never seen anything like it.”
Summitt wasn’t surprised [...]
Nashvegas - one of America’s least walkable cities?
A new survey claims Nashville is in the bottom of the barrel when it comes to walkability.
How do you think Knoxville would score? And how much does walkability matter to you when making living and work life choices?
It matters a whole lot to me, which is why I am so encouraged by the winds [...]
Breaking news out of Sevier County
This is really sad:
A federal judge Thursday sentenced a former Sevier County judge to 46 months in prison plus 10 years supervised release.
Ronald R. Reagan had more than 100 images of children, some of them prepubescent, engaging in intercourse and other sexually explicit conduct.
Officials with the Knoxville Police Department’s Internet Crimes Against Children Unit and [...]
Fred Armisen loves WUTK
Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen comes off as a super nice fella, as he gives a shout out to Knoxville, and gives props to WUTK.
(In looking at links for this post, I discovered that Armisen now has a comedy act going with one of my very fave musicians, Carrie Brownstein from Sleater-Kinney.)
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Read More..>>Follow the editor
The Knoxville News Sentinel’s Jack Lail McElroy is now a-Twitterin’
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The Tennessee GOP’s tent is big enough to include everyone…who has a ticket
The state GOP’s dinner featuring keynote speaker Karl Rove is available to everyone with the proper credentials.
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The commentariat
An interesting piece in Politico this week about the ways different publications, sites and bloggers handle comments.
Not surprisingly, there are those bloggers and administrators who have simply tired of the struggle and done away with comments altogether. The Atlantic’s Marc Ambinder is one, having gotten rid of his comment section, reinstated it and then finally [...]
Read More..>>Product placement in the news
What do you think of this new deal in which - in some markets - anchors have cups of certain coffee brands conspicuously placed on the news set while they deliver the news? And does it bother you more or less than the fact that many news sites now have ads embedded as text [...]
Read More..>>Zach Wamp wants No Child Left Behind…at recess
I heard Rep. Wamp on the Hallerin Hill show this morning speaking very passionately about his belief that the NCLB Act has essentially killed playtime and exercise for children in our schools. He’s apparently on a mission to bring physical activity back into the school day, and I applaud him. He’s 100% correct that at [...]
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