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Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
BTW: I am happily married to a VERY straightforward and assertive woman, and fortunately for me. So don't play that tired old chestnut, it's so obviously gauche!
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
WOW, Donna, your massive gaggle of fans is eerily missing.
I STILL find it somewhat ironic you call someone else phony. Perhaps you would care to elaborate on why I am (as you describe) phony. Because I have the audacity to argue with and NOT worship the idyllic self styled religion that is DONNA LOCKE (as described in the post above)? Because I often caustically deride your arrogance and lack of compassion for economic refugees and the poor/downtrodden? Because I have criticized your disturbingly massive and obvious CRUSH on Stacy Campfield? Because I resent the deriding and (faux) superior air you inject on conversations? Because I dare attack those bastions of reason and civility known as bobsguns and gast and zoombah and xray, nefarious little trolls that you so admire? Because I objected to your THREATS of legal action in their name? Because, despite your talents you NEVER express an original idea?
Woman, thou be pitiful, and what is most pitiful is that you are intelligent and have a tremendous ability to articulate. Just not as much as you think you do!
BTW: have a nice day.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
"I used to be terribly relevant. I won scads of awards for being smug and snide, but now I've retired from being an award winning - professional journalist and I'm just trying to save America from the mongrel, immigrant horde. Mostly I just drink wine and troll the Pith an unmatched air of superiority. I congratulate myself incessantly for driving the phony liberals crazy with my TRUE liberalism which is really more like Libertarianism. Have I mentioned my awards? I'm a real peach"
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
The show is coming back. End of story.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
The old Nashville Banner column was "Why do the heathen rage" or something like that.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Google the George Strait 60 for 60 campaign. It worked.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Reading comprehension hasn't informed yours, Fool.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
It makes me throw up a little in my mouth to see arrogant, prideful know-it-all Donna Locke even write the name George Strait, as if she knows jack shit about the man. But ignorance never has never tempered her remarks.
Re: “Tennessee Tries to Bully Berry College”
Berry College is somewhere way left of Belmont in the church college world. Some HillBillyHolyRoller from Chattanooga probably has a thang about it, their daughter went down there one weekend, smoked some pot, listened to rock and roll and God knows what else with some boy (OR GIRL) from Columbus. It's a school behind the Ignorant Curtain trying to stay in business. They are far more legit than most of the schools in Amercuh ripping off veterans with student loan indentures.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
Personally, I'm just glad Nashville merchants no longer buy TV commercial time with taglines like "Closed on Sundays. We'd prefer to see you in church."
And- however much THE TENNESSEAN deserves to be criticized for its coverage of religion, at least, even with the demise of the NASHVILLE BANNER, it never bought into the Banner's inexplicable and inappropriate plastering of a daily Bible verse (usually from the "New Testament," sometimes from the "old," but always from one or the other, rather than additionally from the Book of Mormon, Quran. or some other religious text that might at least teach me something I don't already know).
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Ah, Jim, I know how straightforward, assertive women affect men like you. I invite folks to click on my name and see what Jim is, well, bitching about. Jim is one of the phony "liberals" who demand to be the only ones talking/commenting. This blog is oversupplied with them.
Jim is still upset because I criticized Cynthia Tucker, whom I know well enough to criticize. By the way, Jim, before I quit to do something more lucrative and less deadly, I won a couple of awards at it, one for an investigation in which my editors tried to kill me by making me learn to drive big-ton trucks. I can still hear the instructor: "Swing wide! Swing wide!" Man, I wanna tell you, they get out of your way when "Student Driver" is plastered on a mammoth vehicle.
Anyway, I just heard that George Strait song again. And I meant to write "Atlanta" above. And going out to Jim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFG9dwolo3Q
Ha!
Re: “On TV News, Sweeps and Sensationalism”
Nashville's news stations are most definitely capable of filling "three hours of morning news, an hour of noon time news, 90 minutes of evening news and 30 minutes of 10 p.m. news" (not to mention one hour of news at 9 p.m.)
The fact that, in the quest for repetition, they are not really doing so (WSMV noon infomercial-dominated hour- condescendingly passed off as news- being the most egregious example) is another matter...
If the FCC required that every (potential) story on the assignment desk be logged for viewer inspection, the truth of all of the news-worthy stories and investigations being missed would be abundantly self-evident. (The "Southern justice" practiced by our court system alone would provide sufficient fodder.)
I have followed Dennis Ferrier's career at WSMV since the days he wore glasses. (Hey, I'm a news junkie...) When I met Mr. Ferrier during a NATAS nomination party he seemed quite nice and a little more subdued than he appears to be on (what, during the ol' analog days we used to call) the tube since he ditched his glasses.
My only other (near) encounter with Mr. Ferrier occurred via email several years ago when I was writing about a news event and wanted to give proper credit to the reporter who broke the story. The email was sent to Dennis Ferrier and Scott Couch as each was claiming an "exclusive."
The content and tone of the email of the single email, copied (not blind-copied) to each reporter (if I remember correctly, Mr. Couch was employed by Channel 5 at the time) was exactly the same: I indicated my interest in giving credit where credit was due, that by definition there could be only one "exclusive" and, having informed both gentlemen of my dilemma, would each be so kind as to clarify his disclosure timeline for me.
Scott Couch wrote me a detailed response indicating, as Howard Baker might put it, what he knew and when he knew it.
I'm still awaiting Dennis Ferrier's reply...
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
From a purely emtional fan.. Stay in Nashville! I live watching the background for street performers and locals that I've seen on visits to my favorite vacation city! Keep it authentic. That alone should set it apart from other dramas. Do what it takes Tennesee!
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
Oh, I wouldn't say that, Sleepy.
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
Standard Steven Hale ignorance. Seriously the worst Nashville political reporter barring, maybe, maybe, Gail Kerr.
Re: “The real drama at ABC's Nashville starts as the season stops”
Steve Buchanan is NASHVILLE's executive producer, not THE producer. He's not about to speak out, other than perhaps anonymously, due to a previous, analogous lapse of judgment not related to the series (Stay tuned...)
CBS' Criminal Minds and NBC's Chicago Fire beat out NASHVILLE's season finale at a time the series needed an explosion of viewers, if not the benefit of the explosion staged last month at the intersection of Granny White Pike and Battlefield Drive (doubtlessly annoying locals who don't value noise, traffic delays and detours).
Keep in mind that production of the finale wrapped while the prospect of cancellation was still looming, thus the pressure to write a script that tied up the plot lines' "loose ends" while simultaneously providing a cliffhanger that could, with luck, launch (sustained interest in) new episodes.
My sister is not a country-music fan but she loves NASHVILLE- and not because her sister was cast in a couple of episodes as a paid extra during Season One (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4239537/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4). She is among a legion of the show's fans who don't live in Tennessee and don't care where Nashville is filmed (apart from being happy whenever her sister gets TV work).
Good acting (and NASHVILLE certainly has that) and good scripts, I'm guessing, are the key to retaining my sister's interest in the series. (My focus on my sister is because I believe she is the typical NASHVILLE viewer to the extent that there is such a thing.)
Second season scripts will make or break NASHVILLE. Sadly, all of the bed-hopping during Season One episodes neither supports nor sustains the penchant for realism that has taken the series as far as it has gone. Same is true of the whole paternity issue subplot. How paternity could be kept secret for 13 years only to "suddenly" surface following an overheard conversation followed by a discovery of the hidden evidence fails to answer why all of the conversations on the subject prior to the overheard one were completely discreet (THAT was not by accident) and how evidence, discreetly and successfully hidden all of that time, was suddenly unearthed by someone who was not looking for it. (Tim McGraw should have been a production consultant on this one.)
Stacy Harris
Publisher/Executive Editor/Media Critic
Stacy's Music Row Report
http://stacyharris.com
Re: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
@Jimbo: What you're saying is that white people should leave black predators alone.
No genius, what I am saying is that you need not differentiate between white and black (or whatever) predators. Otherwise you appear to be quite the racist, to all who are smart enough to comprehend inferred racism.
Is what your saying that it is O K to pursue black predators and ignore white ones? And why?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Donna; pardon me if I seem ungracious, but the bitch quotient in my life is lately on overdose. I do find it ironic that YOU have the audacity to call anyone phony, but self delusion and unwarranted arrogance just might be contributing factors. Tell us again about your glorious failures at journalism, coupled with a bit of name dropping!
The fact that I find you a bit over glorified and quite the dramatic aside, I took a flyer and agreed with you. Fat chance (and I'm not talking about the Jeans you wear) of that happening again.
BTW: have a nice day.........
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Country is a hijacked genre, Jim, populated by phonies. Put on a pair of cowboy boots for every photo -- instant country. Of course, Jim, you couldn't resist insult, being the phony "liberal" you are. But here's an example of the farce we're treated to daily on radio -- I'm not criticizing this singer, by the way; this is not her doing, and I like her and her music a lot:
Years ago, I was looking at country CDs in an Alanta-area store and saw a CD of new Jo Dee Messina music. A note blazoned across the front of the CD announced the disc contained Messina's "hit, number-one single," the one about bye, bye, my rearview mirror's torn off, etc., etc. I love that song, it deserved to be a hit -- when it was. The thing is, when I first saw that CD and the note on the front, that song hadn't even charted yet!
The "hits" are determined for us beforehand. That's why radio stations have been relentlessly playing the new George Strait single for months, trying to get it to number one, because the number "60" means something for George right now. Again, George isn't behind this, and it's a great song, but I mean, I'm tired of hearing it at this point, especially when some other great songs get broadcast two or three times and we never hear them again.
Sorry. Don't get me started.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
@giveitarestdonnanobody'stimpressed: On the highway of life you're the dirty diaper beside the road.
@Whiny war hero: You can't compete with fact or logic so you resort to personal attacks on those more coherent. Why do you feel you have to call somebody names just because that person disagrees with you?