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Re: “My Maser Challenge to The Tennessean”
The Tennessean, like many rags, has become all about circulation and not factual reporting. This puts them dangerously close to the tabloids in terms of credibility.
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
xray
Exactly the reason that I have a nice organic garden, otherwise buy locally grown and/or organic foods, buy from mom-n-pop locals if possible, drink Fair Trade coffee, bank with a credit union and, of course, hug trees.
Climate change is already ruining everything. Look at the Aral Sea. Wait! You can't because it's gone--mostly due to human wrong doing.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I believe she 1st referred to me as "phony". When attacking, you set the rules, I just play by them!
BTW:gastthemia,zoombah/xray/vladdisguisedaspickingontrash: I am NO war hero! All the hero's are DEAD! I just served, did my job, survived, and am not ashamed of it, nor refuse to mention it. It is a part of me, my history, and a reason for my successes and failures (and there have been both). Now I desire to occasionally drink wine (that is what you are referring too), and that is none of your business!
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?
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: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
Not differentiating between white and black seems like a great idea to me. Why don't we adopt this thinking in the workplace and college admissions? No more affirmative action.