Andrea Mitchell of NBC News has apologized for appearing on MSNBC and blubbering about Obama’s visit to Bristol, calling Bristol a real redneck area sort of bordering on Appalachia country… (by Appalachia country, she means on over into Tennessee where us Deliverance type people live.)
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J. Todd Foster called Mitchell on the insulting remark. [...]
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Posted in Blog on May 26th, 2008
In you are interested in the newspaperin’ business, this is worth a read. Pay close attention to the response of Don Kausler Jr.
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2008
On WVLT yesterday, I read this headline: Middle Tennessee teens say alcohol came from lawmaker.
If you were scanning the website and spotted this, what would you think? For me, it conjured up an image of some perverted ol’ state lawmaker hanging out at the local beer joints for the purpose of purchasing beer for minors… [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 1st, 2008
On April 1st, the Times-News reports Surgionsville Police Department welcomes to one horse “Marshal Dillon” and two mules, “Chester and Festus” to their patrol force. The animals were donated by Lirpa Sloof.
Ironically, this happens on the same date that a year ago, a NASA Spacecraft was forced to perform an emergency landing at the [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 29th, 2008
Over the past few days, I’ve been pondering upon new media and how things might shake out for ink slingers. My mind landed here due in part to items I’ve read here and there. I suppose it’s idling on the topic mostly because of the strange new separatist vibe I’m picking up from [...]
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Posted in David Davis on Mar 23rd, 2008
The staff at the Bristol Herald Courier allegedly e-mailed the Mountain Empire Region’s six federal representatives nine questions about the Freedom of Information Act and other federal open government policy matters.
They had hoped to use the responses as part of an article to run for National Sunshine Week. The newspaper later canned the idea because [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 10th, 2008
Over the past couple of days, I’ve been busy doing the mommy runaround and haven’t kept up with the blogs.
It wasn’t until yesterday that I saw the post by Michael Silence: Blogger’s postmortem photos draw ire. Turns out, Kleinheider, Newcoma and Katie Allison Granju were discussing the issue too.
Apparently, Thaddeus Matthews posted [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 7th, 2008
When I decided to change my major to journalism, Daddy was mad enough to spit. He did not understand why I wouldn’t want to “pursue law, clean teeth for a living… or you know, have a respectable career. ”
He, like many other people, tends to be intolerant – or at least ambivalent – [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2007
I’ve got a politically incorrect pet peeve. I thought about stewing silently. Alas, I’ve never been good at stewing. It makes my eyeball twitch. And the whole silent thing… obviously, we can forget about that.
Okay the thing is: I’m an Al Sharpton watcher. No, I can’t explain [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2007
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1:30 PM
Ring, ring.
Al Sharpton: “Hello, Rev. Sharpton here.”
Associated Press: “Reverend Sharpton, we are calling to get your thoughts on the use of the term Curmaflumpadoo on Bill O’Reilly’s show yesterday. How do you feel about that, sir?”
Sharpton: “Curmaflumpadoo!? Who said that?”
Associated Press: “Stacey Campfield.”
Sharpton: “Who is that?”
Associated Press: “He is the Tennessee State [...]
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