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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: “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”
@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: “Racist Who Attended Racist Conference in Tennessee Still Being Racist Back at School”
''Anything that eliminates predators of any stripe or spot is good."' probably , you will be a perfect target, son of a bitch, you predate the truth and common sense at any post..lol dumb cunt
Re: “WSMV Exposes Metro's Makeshift Toxic Landfill (And a Scalp for Ken Jakes!)”
@Kosh III: If you drive a car you support corporations, if you ride a bus you support corporations, if you eat food not home grown you support corporations. If you eat food that is home grown you support corporations because the feed and fertilizer you used to grow that food came from...? The shoes on your feet were made by a corporation. So you dooo support corporations. If you support the idea that 1/25th of 1% increase in CO2 is going to ruin the planet then you should read this link to Newsweek: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/21/newsweek…
Everybody else: Click the link; this article is from the same set of people and organizations now telling us climate change is going to ruin everything.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Just speaking from my own perspective but the "Nashville" set dressers and location scouts have been very kind to Grimey's. We've sold them thousands of records & CDs in bulk to dress sets. Several of the cast shop here and have brought friends in with them. I've talked to numerous tourists about how much they love the show. I've got a guy in Pennsylvania driving his dad's country record collection to Nashville to sell to me because he wants to sell his daddy's records to the store where Deacon shops (he read about us in a People magazine feature on where the 'Nashville' stars go in Nashville). So from where I sit the show has been berry berry good to me.
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
AnglRdr: Hell, most of the pretty boys and girls are b and c level "rock"stars! I find myself in the unenviable and quite distasteful case of agreeing with Donna. What passes for Country today, passed for poor pop in the past!
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
Although I don't really care for this kind of nighttime soap opera, I will say one thing. The show makes Nashville look beautiful.
Re: “Quote of the Day: Emily Evans on the Music City Center”
It's built now, so what is she supposed to say, "I hope it burns to the ground so we can salt the Earth whert it stood"?
Re: “Will Nashville Hit the Road?”
I agree with Mark and Steve. This welfare for the rich doesn't seem to pay off. How long will it be before the Titans do another shakedown, and then pick up and leave if we don't deliver? Dell, as pointed out, was a disaster. I can't believe Spyridon and his bunch are willing to throw money at this.
To hell with them. "Nashville," as I understand it was on the bubble and only got a reprieve by the network. I suspect this wll be its last season anyway.
Re: “Whose Faith & Values Is The Tennessean Covering?”
The old Nashville Banner column was "Why do the heathen rage" or something like that.