The Death of News Stories?
I was running with @Mr_Schwartz the other day, and we were (once again) coming up with solutions to the world’s most difficult problems. Unfortunately for the world, I’m not doing too much distance these days, so there isn’t enough time to fix every problem. Nonetheless, the topic of conversation this cold and rainy night was [...]
Some Great Reading on Knoxville History
Doesn’t matter if you’re local or not, there’re two great stories in the KNS over the past two days that are very intriguing. Â The story is about two possibly connected murders from 1968 and 1972 respectively. Â Everything needed for a good novel is involved–an unsolved murder of a prominent wife whose husband was having [...]
Great News Story–You Forgot Something
Silence pointed out a story in the Tennessean this morning about political bloggers in Tennessee. Newscoma points out something too. Not a bad story but it amazes me that they didn’t link the bloggers they were talking about. Come on ‘Coma…what part of “they don’t get it yet” don’t you understand? Giving credit where it [...]
A Little Editing Wouldn’t Hurt
Note to Commissioner Paul Pinkston, who released a taped conversation with Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale to the New Sentinel: Audacity is free and easy to use. Although I’d rather not hear the toilet flush, I’m at least thankful that you waited until you were “done” to start the tape. One may wonder why the [...]
A Great Story Opportunity
A while back, I wrote a post about a few advantages newspapers have in the market and how they could use them to remain relevant. Using these assets–excellent writing, investigative journalism, and local marketplace branding–newspapers can give us something no one else can. Today in the KNS, at least on their web site, there is [...]
BIG Manufacturing. Last to Know, Last to Go
I was mulling my current employment situation over yesterday, and I thought of something that I think not many people have realized yet. Dare I say this is a bold prediction? Big manufacturing companies are notorious for being late adopters of technology. From my experience, technology tends to happen to them instead happening for them. [...]
My Ideal News, uh, Thingy
I’m not affiliated with and don’t have any knowledge of the newspaper business. You could make the case that this doesn’t make my opinion worth much, but if you consider the performance over the last few years of people who do know the business, maybe doing something different warrants some consideration. Jack Lail has been [...]
Sooner Or Later They Catch On
A little over two weeks ago, Ron Paul made a morning appearance on Fox and Friends and made a slightly controversial statement that was talked about (a little bit) in the blogosphere well into the next evening. Pretty sticky story, huh? Now, as far as newspapers go, our local New Sentinel is pretty forward thinking [...]
The Wire and The Press
Last night we watched the first episode of season 5 of The Wire, and it is already shaping up to be very interesting. This season is focusing heavily on the newsroom of The Baltimore Sun and how news is sorted and reported. The best quote so far is, “I wonder what it’s like to work [...]
My 2007 Year in Review
Unlike everyone else, I slacked off and waited until 2008 was officially here to do my review. 2007 was my first year of full on blogging. I’d messed around here and there with different blogs before, but 2007 was the year I drank the Kool Aid and went at it for real. I’ll keep this [...]
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