Yes he can
I agree 100% with Michael Silence that Tennessee could end up in the win column for the Democrats this year.
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Michael Silence wants some answers, doggone it!
This should be interesting.
I look forward to hearing what response he receives.
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Couching Knoxville, Hidden Nickname
So Jack Lail, Michael Silence and I are all in agreement: Knoxville ex-pat and writer Alison Glock’s claim in her NYT piece today that people regularly refer to Knoxville as “the couch” is kind of out in left field.
But maybe we three are just out of the loop on this one. So take the [...]
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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Tuke’s anemic fundraising
Michael Silence isn’t impressed with the $225,000 Bob Tuke has raised thus far in his bif to unseat Lamar Alexander: “That is an impressive amount, if he’s running for mayor of Sevier County.”
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Hillary is slipping
Polling evidence via Michael Silence.
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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..>>Blogging you to death
Via Micheal Silence:
Of course, the bloggers can work elsewhere, and they profess a love of the nonstop action and perhaps the chance to create a global media outlet without a major up-front investment. At the same time, some are starting to wonder if something has gone very wrong. In the last few months, two among [...]
TVA: Isn’t it ironic?
Michael Silence makes an amusing observation from today’s meeting of TVA directors. The topic of the meeting was conservation:
I’ve just come from a two-hour meeting of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors… It was then I noticed that the board’s agenda and all other documents floating around the board room were each printed on [...]
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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Knoxville Talks traffic
Wow. We’ve had a great first few months. Since launching my little project with scant fanfare during Christmas week (’07), we’ve racked up 72,797 page views.
I’m pretty happy with that.
Soon, you’ll start seeing more promotion for Knoxville Talks at WBIR.com and on the air at WBIR-TV. Lots of good stuff coming down the pike for [...]
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..>>This would surely shut the internets down…
A Kentucky lawmaker wants to pass a law banning Kentuckians from posting anonymous comments on the WWW.
But doesn’t he realize that without anonymous comments, the Internet would just collapse into itself? Basically, anonymous commentary is what keeps the web humming along day after day…
And after reading the article again, I notice that the guy actually [...]
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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Flawed red light camera logic?
Over at TSINAWS, they’re not impressed with recent media coverage of the efficacy of Knoxville’s red light cameras in saving lives:
So the News Sentinel sang the praises of the RedFlex Red light Cameras yesterday. According to our distinguished editors, the fact that there were no deaths last year after the cameras were installed, versus the [...]
Read More..>>Oh, the irony
The good news: local PR firm Moxley Carmichael got some national press.
The bad news: the poorly crafted headline implies the firm needs “professional help.”
(But since all press is good press - right? - I’ll bet they’re still pleased. )
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