Posts Tagged ‘media’
Keep Garrigan around as long as you can
The longer Chris Ferrell can keep Liz Garrigan at SouthComm now that she’s returned, the better.
As I’ve mentioned before, I think Garrigan is a thorough journalist and a persuasive writer. This is good news for anyone who reads the Scene, the City Paper and NashvillePost.com during what is shaping up to be a big transition in Nashville’s local media environment.
Tags: chris ferrell, liz garrigan, media, nashville, nashville is talking, nashville scene, nashvillepost.com, southcomm, tennessee, the city paper
Kleinheider: Wrong, but not racist
The question to me isn’t could Adam Kleinheider take his words from yesterday back. It’s would he? Adam is right that the main opportunity he has to make aggregation of local political content more interesting is through headlines and brief commentary.
Adam was wrong to use a pejorative and emotionally charged term as part of his ongoing efforts to provoke interest in and discussion about local politics, but was he being racist? No, I don’t think he was, and nor do I think he is racist. He should have picked a better way to say it, but the resulting controversy makes one point clear: Race continues to be a sensitive and awfully tough topic to discuss for pretty much everyone.
Others have covered this subject in more detail and much better than me. For a laundry list of opinions, note the bottom of this post from Adam. In the meantime, Adam has apologized, and let’s move on. We don’t need to lose another talented local blogger by blowing the situation further out of proportion.
Tags: adam kleinheider, britney gilbert, media, nashville, politics, post politics, race, racism, tennessee
Salary database serves envy and ego, not common good
I’m generally in favor of transparency in government, but I’m not sure that posting a publicly searchable salary database of all Tennessee state government employees is wise. I understand and support the notion that the citizenry ought to know how public money is spent, but I’m not sure that identifying individual employees by name serves that purpose efficiently. I’d rather see the payroll divided by department or see employees listed anonymously. It seems to me that this kind of database serves envy and ego more than it does good government and civic responsibility. That’s a shame.
Tags: media, privacy, public policy, state government, tennessee, the tennessean, transparency
My favorite Dan Miller memory
WSMV-TV’s Dan Miller, the second Nashville journalism icon to pass away this week, was a kind-hearted person as well as a talented news anchor. He will be sorely missed in Middle Tennessee for all he has added to our community, but my favorite Miller memory never aired on television.
Within the past year, I happened to see Dan take his 10-year-old daughter to lunch one Saturday at Sylvan Park Restaurant. They both looked to be having a ball spending time together, and they didn’t seem to have a care in the world. It seemed all too fitting to me today to see that Miller’s final blog posting was about his daughter.
The quote that appears at the top of his blog, which was added by Miller long before he passed away this morning, is particularly appropriate, too.
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come in the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.
These words from Susan B. Anthony are wisdom that all of us should live by, and judging from that Saturday lunch date, Miller sure did. Goodbye, Dan. Nashville will miss you.
(Related: Miller’s Facebook page)
Tags: dan miller, media, nashville, sylvan park restaurant, tennessee, wsmv
Nashville Post scoops nation on Obama’s VP pick
There will be no abiding Ken Whitehouse now: The same reporter who broke the story that the Nashville Predators might be sold to Blackberry co-founder Jim Balsillie dropped an even bigger bombshell today:
NashvillePost.com has learned that senior campaign officials from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign are being dispatched from various locations around the country and are converging in Indianapolis for a “major event” to take place on Saturday. Saturday is the same day that Obama is expected to make his first public appearance with his yet to be announced vice presidential running mate. Indiana is the home state of Democratic Senator Evan Bayh, widely considered to be on the short list of Democratic vice presidential contenders.
CBS News, among others, is citing Nashville Post as its source for speculation about Obama’s choice for vice president. This is a huge scoop for a local news organization that’s become an invaluable part of Nashville’s local media landscape over the past several years. Way to go, Ken!
Tags: barack obama, cbs news, election, evan bayh, ken whitehouse, media, nashville, nashville post, politics, vice president
Jesus needs a drink
The Tennessean seems to be implying that someone upstairs, or at least some of his followers, needs to take the edge off. In its calendar listing for Belmont University’s Lead Like Jesus seminar scheduled for tomorrow (Aug. 1), the daily newspaper’s Web site includes “$1 off Beer,” “2-for-1 Cocktails” and “$5 Martinis and Appetizers” promotions at nearby local bars as “Similar Events.” During a summer when the paper’s Web site has also predicted snowfall, I’d say the odds are good that this is an unfortunate consequence of an automated event calendar. It’s probably not a bad way to spend a Friday afternoon, though.
Tags: belmont university, christianity, lead like jesus, media, nashville, the tennessean
You are so Nashville if…
… you completely blank on the Nashville Scene’s You Are So Nashville If deadline and miss submitting your entries by a couple of days. At least that’s true in my case. I remembered that I hadn’t thought about the deadline in awhile on June 25. Oops.
I’m disappointed that the entries I compiled will not make the pages of the latest YASNI issue, which makes its debut today. (It isn’t online as of this writing, but it should be appearing later today.) It would be a shame to keep these silly notions of what makes our city such an eclectic and intriguing place to live under wraps, though, so here they are. Enjoy.
- Your Messiah didn’t speak English, but your landscaper sure better.
- You can’t decide what scares you more: turning into Atlanta or turning into Memphis.
- The closest your SUV has come to off-road is the Hill Center parking garage.
- You think that Orange County and New York have nothing on the Real Housewives of Green Hills.
- You wonder whether Bill Hobbs has a soul.
- Your Juvenile Court Clerk spends more time in his bathrobe than his office.
- You’re outraged that Davidson County voter registration data was stolen, but relieved because you’re not registered.
- Your gay community opens its doors to churchgoers marching for family values, not the other way around.
- You hear Out Loud is an excellent stereo shop.
- Vanderbilt is the team you hate to love.
- You wish Catherine Darnell were still around to distinguish the Harding Road “Hill Center” and the Green Hills “Hill Center” in snooty socioeconomic terms.
- You’re hoping Karl Dean will have a chance to address the non-hockey items on his mayoral agenda by his second term.
- Your solution to homelessness is destroying panhandlers’ natural habitats.
- Your blue blindfold obscures your view of the Hustler Hollywood store–and the homeless man begging for lunch across the street.
- You brag about switching to Green Power–and your second place finish in Metro’s annual holiday lights contest.
- You’re OK with Gaylord building a new convention center of their own, so long as it features a Flume Zoom.
- You carry your iPhone as a badge of honor because *you* stood in line for it at the mall–instead of having your record label’s intern do it for you.
- You’re outraged that Microsoft Word thinks “Opry” isn’t a word. (WordPress agrees.)
- You have season passes for the Schermerhorn *and* the Music City Motorplex.
- You’re thrilled that Bart Durham finally landed Nashville its “first soap opera.”
- You’re concerned that Nashville can’t possibly support Ghost Ballet for the East Nashville Machineworks *and* the Nutcracker.
- You find yourself wondering just how hot the Hot Yoga really is.
- You’ve started cheering for the ghosts instead of rooting for Pacman.
- You think Pacman has had a few too many power pellets.
- You fondly recall the era when Pacman was just a video game, not a public nuisance.
Tags: current events, media, nashville, nashville scene, politics, yasni, you are so nashville if
