A.C. Kleinheider has landed
At The Nashville Post, that is:
Adam “A.C.” Kleinheider, who until recently ran the respected VolunteerVoters.com site for WKRN-TV News 2, will on Monday join NashvillePost.com to augment the site’s breaking news coverage with a political blog.
Kleinheider ran VolunteerVoters.com for almost two years, amassing a loyal readership of local business and political leaders with his aggregation [...]
A sound (not) media business strategy
And still more thoughts on the end of Volunteer Voters from Hear ItFrom.Us:
What does it say about the state of news when a regional media outlet can’t afford to be among the leaders for regional political discussion? Does WKRN think this void won’t be filled by someone else? Is that something they can afford?
Here’s a [...]
Bill Hobbs is right
Hobbs on WKRN’s decision to let Volunteer Voters go: Not all old media gets the new media or knows what to do with it.
(An aside: my dad was a reporter at WKRN while I was growing up….)
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Bloggers respond to WKRN’s decision to pull the rug out from under Volunteer Voters
As I noted last night, WKRN in Nashville has apparently decided to let the best political blogger in Tennessee go for budgetary reasons. Now, the state’s bloggers are responding.
Jack Lail
It was very sad to hear of layoff of A.C. Kleinheider, the writer of VolunteerVoters, today by Nashville TV station WKRN.
The media business is a tough [...]
A sad farewell to the best political blogging in the state of Tennessee
A.C Kleinheider becomes a victim of budget cuts.
A big loss.
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Harold Ford, Jr damns the Dems with faint praise
Via Sean Braisted, we hear what Ford had to say at Vandy last night about the now-three-way race among Clinton, Obama and McCain:
Ford said that he has been impressed with Hillary Clinton’s “fight” and said that in some ways she has more experience than either John McCain or Barack Obama. But whatever happens, the country [...]
Read More..>>Bloggying
Blogging as a form of lobbying = bloggying.
Bloggers who work to influence the legislative outcome of a cause or issue = bloggyists.
I wrote something about PR firms using blogs as lobbying tools last week, and this week, the issue is getting some official attention.
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The Bill Hobbs ripple hits The Daily Show
The now-national brouhaha over the TNGOP’s press release emphasizing Barack Obama’s middle name (it’s “Hussein,” in case you hadn’t heard), hits The Daily Show.
Funny.
(Hat tip to SIG)
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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 [...]
Mike Padgett taps campaign team
Metro Pulse by way of Volunteer Voters notes:
We mentioned yesterday that Bob Tuke had tapped Ben Chao to run his embryonic effort for U.S.. Senate. Today we learn that Former Knox County Clerk Mike Padgett has signed a big name operator as well.
Metro Pulse reports that Randy Button and Jed Brewer’s Blue Solutions will [...]
Sen. Alexander takes TN GOP to the woodshed
Apparently, Tennessee’s moderate GOP senator wasn’t real happy with the TN GOP leadership’s approach to campaigning against Obama.
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Can you be pro-rapture and pro-gay-marriage at the same time?
Apparently not in Tennessee:
A new wide-ranging poll by Middle Tennessee State University reveals some interesting findings on the issue and candidate preferences of Tennesseans….
Gay Marriage: “[O]nly those who disavow being born again, who regard the bible mostly as fable, who never try to convert others, and who reject the Rapture approve of gay marriage by [...]
He’s baaaaaack
Carl “Two Feathers” Whitaker is once again seeking public office.
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State Sen. aide caught in Craigslist prostitution sting
An aide to Sen. Berke, who was elected to replace Tennessee Waltz-tainted Sen. Ward Crutchfield has been busted in a Nashville prostitution sting.
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Are homeschoolers asking to have it both ways?
A move is afoot to create a “Tim Tebow law” in Tennessee that would allow homeschooled students to fully participate in public school athletics in the communities in which their parents pay taxes.
State Rep. Beth Harwell has proposed a Tim Tebow law: Her proposal would allow homeschoolers to participate in high school extra-curricular activities. Currently [...]
Bob Tuke to challenge Alexander after all?
That’s the buzz over at Volunteer Voters.
What do you think? Should the Democrats run a “legitimate” candidate against Lamar Alexander for the sake of state legislative candidates down the ticket or is there nothing wrong with letting the evidently newly shaved and coiffed Chris Lugo stand for the progressive values of the new Democratic Party?
Or [...]
McCain finally gets Fred Thompson’s endorsement
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Fred Thompson, the one-time Republican presidential candidate, endorsed Sen. John McCain Friday, calling on the party to “close ranks” behind the presumed nominee.
“This is no longer about past preferences or differences. It is about what is best for our country and for me that means that Republican should close ranks behind John McCain,” Thompson said [...]
An unusual definition of rape
State Senator Doug Henry recently defined the crime thusly:
“Rape, ladies and gentlemen, is not today what rape was. Rape, when I was learning these things, was the violation of a chaste woman, against her will, by some party not her spouse. Today it’s simply, ‘Let’s don’t go forward with this act.’ ”
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Read More..>>And then there were two: Ron Paul and Rep. Jimmy Duncan?
According to a blogger writing for the online magazine published by Taki Theodoracopulos, two of the four anti-war conservatives currently serving in Congress face potential election defeat:
There are only four dependably anti-war Republicans in Congress: Ron Paul, Walter Jones, John Duncan, and Wayne Gilchrest. Paul has won 10 successive congressional elections and will most likely [...]
Tennessee GOP calls for an apology
State GOP leaders have issued a press release calling for the Memphis Flyer to issue an apology in l’affair Campfield.
Hat tip to Kleinheider.
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