Fragments
I’m starting to get interested again in politics. A lot is happening, especially in this state.
First of all, Fred Thompson had a big shindig over in Lawrenceburg over the weekend. Sugarfused went and took some crowd shots. It was her first political rally and she was pretty excited about it.
We had a rally here (and it wasn’t as big as Fred’s. Shocking, I know) and we had the likes of Mike McWherter, Lowe Finney, Roy Herron and John Tanner.
Mayor Willie Herenton being a no-show at a mayoral forum is bound to be the talk of the Memphis blogosphere today.
Russ McBee has been one of the bloggers covering the Knoxville News Sentinel’s civil trial against the Knoxville County Commission. He is being very detailed about the slant of words, their meanings. This has been a very interesting read over the past week. If you want to see something a bit different, I suggest you go get yourself a cup of coffee and settle in with Russ’ blog for a few minutes. KNS asking for feedback from local bloggers is revolutionary and they are getting what they asked for. Compelling.
Fox or Emmy producers, who knows, censored Sally Field when she made an anti-war statement. And this shocks who? Not I.
With all of that said, I think things are going to start picking up. Reminds me of the chorus from the Butthole Surfers song, Pepper for some odd reason.
“they are getting what they asked for. ”
… whether they like it or not.
This has certainly been an interesting experiment for me. I didn’t expect I’d end up deconstructing every jot & tittle on the page, but that’s sort of the way it’s evolved over the last week. Kinda makes my head hurt.
It’s really a shame that this exercise is revolutionary, as you put it; this kind of interaction and feedback should be a matter of routine.
In a broader sense, I just wish newspaper folks as a whole (not you!) would realize that most bloggers are not their competition — we are their customers. Blogging about bias and objectivity in the news is fundamentally no different from water-cooler conversations and letters to the editor, which have been happening as long there have been newspapers. The main distinction now is that the water cooler has a larger crowd around it, and those letters to the editor are no longer vetted by a member of the editorial staff, but what’s being said now on blogs is the same stuff readers of newspapers have been saying for a couple of centuries. The only thing that’s changed is the medium.
That shouldn’t be seen as a threat by anyone in the news business.
Thanks for the link love, ‘Coma.
Sally Field was censored for uttering “God” before “damn” in her remarks which she claims were more about mothers than the war itself. Had she not cursed, I think the comments would’ve aired.
Frank, that makes sense but why didn’t they just bleep the one word?
Pondering in my head ….
I think Sally forgot to take her Lithium. She was a little wired. I thought she was gonna repeat the “You Really Like Me” speech there for a minute.
Ya know… Pepper is one of my favorite songs of all time!