Monday, January 18, 2010
Barry / Media City Paper Back in the (Occasional) Editorial Business
Posted by Bruce Barry on Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM
The revival of the CP's editorial voice comes just a week after Stephen George took over as the paper's new editor. George tells Pith that readers shouldn't expect house editorials as a regular feature. "We won't be running editorials representing the newsweekly's position every week," he says, but the paper will "weigh in on issues of major civic concern."
Another development in the SouthComm orbit is Liz Garrigan's return to a contributing editor position. Last October SouthComm CEO Chris Ferrell asked Garrigan to take on a temporary role as interim executive editor with responsibility for the company's three flagship media properties--The City Paper, Nashville Post, and the Scene. Now, with editors in place for each news organ, Garrigan returns to the contributing role originally envisioned, which involves work as a columnist and editorial adviser.
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I'm sure George developed a very thorough understanding of the "issue of major civic concern" at hand in his two weeks in the city. Bravo!
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So, who composes this editorial voice, exactly, do you know?
I have no doubt that the convention center is going to happen. I just think it's hilarious that, at a moment in the city when kids can't get school books until they're almost a month into classes, when parts of downtown had to be shut down all last week to deal with our hundred year old infrastructure, when we face an enormous budget shortfall, when people who work for the city are losing their jobs, the paper says, basically, "Well, if we have no bread, let us eat cake."
Aunt B,
Tax revenue that will go to pay for the MCC cannot be used for a single purpose that you list.
First, state law designates that tax revenue for the MCC.
Second, the tax revenue comes from business generated by the MCC. If Nashville doesn't build the MCC, then it doesn't get that business. Obviously, it then wouldn't get the tax revenue from that business.
Claiming that this tax revenue could be used for other purposes is patently false. It's also a tactic that the MCC opponents have shown no shame in using.
Kevin, yes, I know that and you know that. But imagine, for a moment, how that's going to play out to struggling voters.
"Why did you vote to spend my tax money on a convention center when my kid didn't have school books for a month and my husband got laid off?"
"Well, ma'am, it's very complex. Money for the convention center could only go to the convention center..."
"Why?"
"It's a state law."
"Really? That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of."
I mean, please, most voters are not going to want to hear that crap.
I'm not opposed to the center. I'm not for it. I thought it was a done deal the minute they decided on it unless Gaylord could come up with something big enough to derail it, which they obviously have not.
But for proponents to act like people who haven't been paying attention to the intricacies of this whole thing are going to be okay with this is just a little hilarious.
It's fine with me. Like I said, I don't really care one way or another.
But I'm a little baffled and amused that the pro-convention center people having considered how this is going to play out public-relations wise.
I hope for y'all's sake that there are a lot of jobs created very quickly.
Who is on the editorial board, anyway?
Given that editorials will be irregular, it appears at this early stage to be a loosely coalesced collection of the paper's editors rather than a formal 'board' as such.
Hmm. So, can anyone just declare themselves a member of the editorial board, then?
And what kind of power would an editorial board member have?
For instance, could a self-appointed editorial board member (perhaps a charming, yet troublesome Pith blogger) decree that George and Lind had to have daily jello wrestling matches?
Because I think I could drum up some public support for that.
Don't fly in the face of decades of jello wrestling tradition, JR. You'll have a bikini, like every other jello wrestler and those can just be washed in the sink.
I am concerned about the bow tie. I guess I'll approve dry-cleaning expenses for your bow ties.
There are five editors listed on the masthead of today's City Paper.
Stephen George - Editor
Vincent Troia - Managing Editor
Geert De Lombaerde - Business Editor
Sherry Phillips - News/Online Editor
Dana Kopp Franklin - Assistant Editor
If the editorial voice of the CP is a "loosely coalesced collection of the paper's editors" which of the above were in the "collection" this time?
Was anyone else other than the above involved?
...decree that George and Lind had to have daily jello wrestling matches?
Oooh. Could you throw Liz into the mix please?
Most of the pix on the bathing suit model seem to be beautiful. Realize that you have performed a great job addressing modern fashions for 2010 and beyond. The summertime will tend to be right here before all of us know it and also we tend to will almost all be in the market for swimsuits like the the ones in those ınformation. Sports Illustrated basically came out with the bathing suit edition and we will just about all be struggling to find bikinis which includes bikiniss of your actual story.
