Changes at that thar Knoxville News Sentinel
Changes afoot, and good ones.
Congrats to all. It’s fun to work in a market with such a smart competitor.
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An online primer
Knox County commissioners are proposing that they create an online message board to assist in making their meetings/discussions more transparent. (I think this is a fantastic idea, by the way).
But the News Sentinel is referring to the online venue being proposed as a “chat room”.
Note: they are not the same thing.
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Should Ragsdale resign?
Thats what Michael Silence is asking in his online poll today.
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The black hole of blogging will suck you in….
Les Jones on Michael Silence’s neat-o new gig: Micheal Silence, who wrote for a newspaper then wrote a blog for the newspaper about blogs, is now writing in the newspaper about blogging about blogs here
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A good reason to read the newspaper
Michael Silence is launching a weekly column about blogging for the KNS.
Will it also run in the hard copy edition?
I am really looking forward to this.
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Al Gore sours the Pickle
Our former senator basically suggested to KNS movie critic Betsy Pickle that she talk to the hand:
Gore spoke passionately for several minutes about his favorite subject, the climate crisis, and how the film “Mountaintop Removal,” about how coal mining is destroying an Appalachian community, ties into that problem. After he gave director Michael O’Connell the [...]
Congrats to Michael Silence
A favorite East Tennessee blogger and journalist has a new (media) gig:
For more than 26 years, my duties have been aimed at the print product. Come May 5, that’ll change. I’ll be moving to the editorial page to focus primarily on online. More specifically, this blog. I will also be doing a weekly column for [...]
Read More..>>Taking the News Sentinel to task
LVG says our local newspaper of record isn’t doing its job:
The emperor Nero, it’s said, fiddled while Rome burned. We might say that our town’s only daily newspaper is following suit.
In today’s Knoxville News Sentinel you can find an article by Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale on the importance of education in developing and [...]
Where Cynthia Finch succeeded and where she failed
Conservative KNS columnist Greg Johnson on Cynthia Finch’s written response to the Knox County p-card audit:
If the response was intended to absolve Finch, it failed miserably. If Finch’s goal was to lay some public groundwork for a racial and/or sexual discrimination lawsuit, she may have made points but at the expense of appearing to play [...]
Read More..>>Bloggers as reporters
The KNS has been doing a great job utilizing blogging as part of their coverage of the trucker’s strike.
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Dr. Seuss wrote about Knox County government? Who knew?!
Sam Venable does a pretty great impression of the Good Doctor:
Mike The Rag was called to task by local folks who were aghast
At thousands in suspicious spending; seemed the spree was never-ending.
Quoth The Rag: “Please worry none. Consider all the good I’ve done!
“Every dollar in this quest, I’ve done my best to well-invest.
“It’s J.J. and [...]
It’s not all about the MISSING p-card receipts
From the KNS today:
In the period covered by the audit, the mayor and the six staffers charged $55,519 in meals, $49,735 in lodging, $20,169 in air fare, $14,224 in conferences and $3,036 in memberships.
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More evidence that gay witches are running Tennessee’s public schools
Rep. Stacey Campfield points to a KNS article as evidence (at least I think this is what he’s saying) that his recent attempt to make a law banning teachers from mentioning homosexuality was needed.
The article is about a parent in Oak Ridge’s complaint that an online encyclopedia called BrainPOP offered to elementary school [...]
Blogmath
Michael Silence breaks down some numbers on political blog readership:
The most recent estimate of the U.S. population is 303,548,757, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That means those regularly reading political blogs total somewhere around 67,000,000. There’s not a media outlet on the planet that wouldn’t kill for those kind of numbers.
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Read More..>>Stacey Campfield, William Wilberforce & Inside Tennessee
Rep. Campfield states his case in today’s Knoxville News Sentinel:
Liberals claim respect for the views of others, but I fail to see that materialize for conservative ideas.
A valued friend once told me, “Stacey, good policy is good politics.” I offer legislation that benefits the rights of families - not the state, legislation that upholds the [...]
A jug of wine, a loaf of bread… and some way-savvy PR
I mentioned yesterday that a new blog had launched advocating changing Tennessee’s laws to allow the sale of wine in grocery stores.
Since that time, the blog has been noted and the topic taken up for discussion by a number of different Tennessee bloggers. I actually got the original tip to the new campaign from [...]
This “agenda” of which you speak
Michael Silence is spot-on in his assessment of this thing one hears rather frequently about this news organization or that one having some sort of secret agenda:
If journalists wanted to be involved in public policy they’d be involved in the process. But that belies a fundamental of what journalists are about: We like to sit [...]
Will blog for wine
A new blog is being launched to promote changing TN law to allow wine sales in grocery stores ( a great idea, in this wine-in-the-evening-with-supper blogger’s opinion).
See also:
Micheal Silence
Sean Braisted
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Does the News Sentinel not-so-secretly want metro government?
David Oatney thinks so.
The constant comparison between Knoxville City government and Knox County government in the editorial pages of the News-Sentinel is a testament to what the KNS is really trying to accomplish-a metropolitan government in Knox County and the end of county autonomy there.
Metro government is what the News-Sentinel’s real editorial agenda is all [...]
“The media ate my homework”
Mike Arms is among several Ragsdale staffers who say they are certain some of the receipts flagged as missing in the p-card draft audit were actually turned in. And today, he offers a novel theory as to where the missing documentation might have gone:
Arms questioned whether some receipts have been lost, including the possibility that [...]
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