Monday, May 21, 2007

News: Well, okay then.

The Editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel would like me to know that the aforementioned drunken teen prom party was so news, and that Mr. Butturini did not, in fact, beat him up in the third grade.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Me thinks he doth protest too much"
But congratulations are in order, you are being listened to...and that's great!

8:14 AM, May 21, 2007
7.62x54r said...

I wonder if he considered that it was most read because of the click throughs from "the Porch"?

9:52 AM, May 21, 2007
Zendo Deb said...
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10:04 AM, May 21, 2007
Bonnie said...

Yeah. I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I had to snark. I hate "journalists" like that.

10:21 AM, May 21, 2007
Anonymous said...

Okay, that's funny.

The editor's defense was kind of frightening. He actually and blatantly defined news as, "Whatever gets us ratings."

Shudder ...

10:57 AM, May 21, 2007
Anonymous said...

Pax-

I find that sort of honesty refreshing.

The sooner everyone realizes that nooze is neither unbiased nor unfiltered, the better off we'll all be.

2:20 PM, May 21, 2007
SpeakerTweaker said...

Wow, Tam! I get giddy when a Blogmaster posts a comment on one of my posts. You got yours in the paper!!

Judging from this moron's idea of news, probably on the front page:)



tweaker

10:01 PM, May 21, 2007
comatus said...

I was a 'high school journalist.' Had a moment of revelation when I arrived at a state university in 1970 and found the department re-named "Journalism and Public Relations." Perhaps unfairly to PR men, I have been unsurprised at anything journalists have done since.

A modestly-proposed VFTP definition of "highbrow": any brow that doesn't leave blood on the Warner Swasey eyepiece of an '03 Springfield.

12:03 AM, May 22, 2007

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