Thursday, July 9, 2009
Crazy Crap / Media / Silverman Yesterday's Davidson A.M.: "McNair opens Gridiron9, hopes to add others"
Posted by Jack Silverman on Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:45 AM
To our readers, This edition of Davidson A.M. includes a story about former Titans quarterback Steve McNair. The story, including an interview with Mr. McNair, was prepared before his death last Saturday. This edition of Davidson A.M. was printed last Friday. It is common practice for newspapers to print some feature sections several days before their distribution. We apologize for the timing of the story.Is it also common practice to go ahead and deliver said paper if it makes you look ridiculous? Furthermore, Rob's paper had no letter attached. "Are you sure?" I asked. He went and checked the plastic bag his paper came in. No letter...but two copies of Davidson A.M., which makes you wonder how many papers went out without the letter. What could possibly make Gannett think it was a good idea to distribute the paper, even with the letter? Would the city have ground to a halt without our weekly Davidson A.M.? Is the embarrassment really worth the three pages of advertising dollars? Or did they just assume that, like me, no one actually reads the thing, so it would slip by unnoticed--yet they could still charge the advertisers?
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This is a new low for the Tennessean and that's saying something. Uncategorically ridiculous.
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The Scene is looking pretty hot too this week without a single mention of the McNair story in the print edition.
Is the place now going to close? Why cant you mention the introduction of a new business despite the brutal reality of current events?
When this businessman was murdered, his family stepped in to keep it going. I just called the number and they are still in business.
http://blogs.nashvillescene.com/bites/2007/10/spudz_owner_eric_brown_murdere.php
Funny thing is, the circumstances of Eric Browns demise were also surrounded in allegations of some wrongdoing.
Didn't stop them..... just sayin
I agree with Hank. Yes, any criticism of the Tennessean is usually justified, including their lack of judgment in this Davidson A.M. hiccup.
But I sure do miss the old Nashville Scene. It would have found angles (a la Matt Pulle) to the McNair story previously uncovered. There would have been unique perspectives (from Big Boy, say) and even analysis of media coverage (damn, I miss Henry Walker columns). Now it's like reading, I don't know, the Kansas City Scene or something.
This piece of crap gets dumped at the end of my driveway every Wednesday morning (or, in the case of this week's issue, Tuesday afternoon. AM?), and from there it goes straight into the trash. I keep meaning to look into what our laws are regarding littering, but the idea of everyone cruising by 1100 Broadway and throwing these things out on their sidewalk is very appealing too.
JayByrd is right. Henry Walker's column used to be the very first thing I'd turn to. It is sad that no one fills that role anymore.
to cover the McNair-Kazemi case.
Similar to the story about a man shooting his neighbor's home and then burning their home down (can't remember the title sorry).
We are all CRAVING some investigative journalism.
The PD are probably doing a great job, but it would be nice if an investigative piece could dispel what is rumor and innuendo. And back up what the PD has already stated. OR if they could find something deeper that was missed.
Just sayin'..... It would be intersting.
Wait, is that true? There's no mention of the McNair murder in the print edition of the Scene?? Is so, may I ask why?
From "The Paper," Ron Howard, 1994
(Alicia the editor has just refused to stop a press run to correct a story she knows is wrong. Michael McDougal, the columnist, is explaining exactly why she will burn in hell.)
Alicia: We're not exactly the Washington Post, okay?
Michael McDougal: No, we're not. We run stupid headlines because we think they're funny. We run maimings on the front page because we got good art. And I spend three weeks bitching about my car because it sells papers. But at least it's the truth. As far as I can remember we never ever, ever knowingly got a story wrong, until tonight.
Thanks to IMDB.com for helping me remember this line.
They need to get Willy Stern on this!
He'd have a sit down with Keith Norfleet within 2 days. Norfleet would then admit to masterminding the whole thing, with help from Ray Lewis.
Every yard they throw that unsolicited litter in they fraudulently claim in circulation numbers and then con advertisers into believing those people saw their ad. It's getting on my last nerve.
Deadspin and Editor & Publisher have picked this up, the latter got a "justification" from the Tennessean.
http://deadspin.com/5311040/tennessean-brings-out-the-dead-asks-about-exciting-new-line-of-restaurants
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003992260
Add this to the list of why print newspapers are making themselves obsolete, old stories, stupid stuff like that and so forth.
Print newspapers, at least the city newspapers seem to be doomed to extinction.
We get more news, more deeply, and faster with the Internet. Radio news and TV news tells a tiny bit but we can reseach more online or chat online on social networking sites and on blogs if we do desire.
We no longer need local Letters to the Editor to have our voices heard. The Internet gives us a worldwide voice, a guaranteed to be heard voice with instant broadcasting.
Contrary to what POTC (Pravda on the Cumberland) thinks, there is no reasonable justification for this gaffe going through if it could have been stopped.
Spend the money, pull the editions back in and delay it however many days you have to. Being late with a neighborhood rag done correctly beats the daylights out of being on-time with this garbage.
Hopefully McNair fans that see this will honor his memory and start cancelling their subscriptions to POTC for allowing this to happen.
Between The Tennessean, the Scene, and the SouthComm pubs, Nashville has about one half of a decent newspaper.
Jamiealex:
Just curious, how do you break the "about one half" down between the Scene and the SouthComm pubs (does that include the City Paper and if not don't they get a little bit of credit?)?
SouthComm does include the City Paper and the Nashville Post, among others. A good chunk of what appears on the City Paper's web site is really from the Post.
As for a statistical breakdown, I haven't gone that far. Feel free.
Was there any mention in that particular issue about Michael Jackson rehearsing for his comeback tour next month? Maybe they're saving that for next week.
The Davidson A.M. and the plastic in which it is wrapped is litter when thrown on private or public property without permission and done so week after after week after week to rot, heated to a hundred degrees, decompose, run over by vehicles, rained on for days. The Tennessean is responsible for more than 50% of the litter in our city as they drop approximately 250,000 copies of the Davidson A.M. each week or put another one million pieces of litter a month. We as citizens need to start raising hell with the law enforcement agencies who ignore their sworn duty to write littering charges for these violations. The revised law effective July 1, 2007, states: all law enforcement personnel in the state are "authorized, empowered, and directed" to enforce this law. Reads like a mandate to me.
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