Wednesday, August 5, 2009
40 Jealous Whores / Media / Woods Why Does It Cost $2,500 to Tell Gail Kerr How to Write a Puff Piece?
Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:31 AM
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And the wheels on the bus go round and round...
Reason #2938 to live outside Davidson County.
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I don't think I'd quite call Kerr a seasoned "corporate shill." After the Hill Center was constructed she wrote a long column about keeping Nashville's local businesses alive and avoiding chains like CPK, Pei Wei, Whole Foods, etc. I think over the course of her career she has advocated for keeping this city's culture intact. Don't start throwing blame at the wrong people -- It makes you look like the Republican party.
I don't get the hate that this blog constantly throws at Gail Kerr. She's a columnist, a rare commodity in the newspaper business these days. She doesn't write op-ed pieces but they are a personal viewpoint. You may disagree with what she writes, and she may sometimes write things that line up with Powers That Be, but that doesn't make her a shill. She can also sometimes be a balancing voice of sanity in this city and you should be encouraging her, not trying to destroy her.
To help with the growing cost of a billion dollar project that no one wants, maybe they should get Reagan Farr to "find" some more tax payer money from farmers and family businesses. And when I say find I mean steal. Its funny that when the city and state government steal from us it is called something other than theft. I wonder how they sleep at night. Maybe we should find some back taxes that Dean and Farr forgot to pay and charge them from say 1975 on. They seem to think that they will have political futures and jobs once their done holding us up for their own agendas. They won't and that is what lets me go to sleep at night. Our state and city see fit to give tax breaks to big organizations and then OVER tax us to pay for their friends pet projects. I wonder which private citizens benefit most from the work Dean and Farr do on OUR behalf? I wish some journalist would look into that. They might find something interesting. Maybe not. But a good place to start would be with farmers who might lose their land so we can pay for a giant billion dollar building or say a hockey team. I wonder what those people would say about that billion dollar price tag?
Enough generalities, jamiealex. Has Gail Kerr ever penned anything hard-hitting and critical of Karl Dean's administration? When has she ever played the part of Public Enemy in order to "fight the Powers-that-Be?"
I should not call Gail a corporate shill. Actually, she'll shill for anybody who takes her out to lunch and sucks up to her. But Gail's my friend. I'm just offering up a little constructive criticism.
That's the saddest part. Someone got $2500 for the piece Kerr wrote and it wasn't her.
And that, Aunt B. as you brilliantly penned here a couple of days ago, is the new reality of journalism.
I think over the course of her career she has advocated for keeping this city's culture intact. Don't start throwing blame at the wrong people -- It makes you look like the Republican party.
Ha! But back to the convention center: A few people will get rich off the taxpayers, but the average Tennessee resident will get no benefit whatsoever from this convention center mess, a mess many of us have watched unfold in other cities. Such a scam that people never learn from, but this is what happens with certain forces in control of everything, including the "news" media.
I don't always agree with Gail Kerr, but I never have doubted her integrity as a journalist. It is common for PR firms to pitch a story, but they don't control the content or the slant the columnist or reporters gives the piece. I think the attacks on her are unwarranted.
