I still need professional media

I don’t need newspapers. I do need the people-formerly-known-as-newspaper-writers. I need an online news source that gathers only the truth from rumors on blogs and provides an honest and accurate explanation of local news. I need someone to explain the what if we do and what if we don’t of proposed political amendments. More than […]

I like my bubble

As Thanksgiving dinner digested and the children wandered off until they heard the word dessert, newspapers became one of our many topics of conversation. My mother expressed displeasure in the local paper’s recent changes and my father scoffed at my suggestion that he was the last generation to rely on newspapers. Actually, he laughed at […]

whatcha watching?

One of Doug and I’s favorite parts of going to see a movie in the theater is watching the previews together. After each preview, we declare the movie a must see, a wait for the dvd or a no way, no how. We generally agree on the nostalgia and comedies, but on everything else, well, […]

National Night Out 2008

I called my mother to ask her if she was participating in her neighborhood’s Night Out activities. She replied that she had gotten a few notes in her mailbox about it, but thought it seemed like an invitation for burglaries if everyone in the neighborhood was off having a party somewhere. Then she changed her […]

celebrity TMI

I really enjoyed movies and music more when celebrities kept their personal lives private. Please stop giving the stalkarazzi your schedule and pay for GOOD pr firms, body guards and drivers. If you can’t behave in public, stay home. You are taking all the fun out of spending a week’s pay to take the family […]

Granny says:

“They’re making the newspaper smaller at the same time that the readers’ eyes are getting worse.” Why don’t newspapers switch to large print summaries of the previous day’s news?

fear 101

We’re still under a drought that has states desperate for water, food prices soaring and wildfires raging. It’s not raining. Be afraid. But, wait, it has rained this week. Rain means West Nile epidemics. It’s raining. Be afraid. Everyone panic. Or quit reading newspapers.

newspaper celebrities

The newspaper booth at the Women’s Expo had a full schedule of “celebrities” greeting people at the booth. I will agree that everyone connected to UT basketball and football is a celebrity in Knoxville. The others are newspaper professionals whose names are familiar. I’m not sure that qualifies as celebrity. Critics are really just the […]

my day with old media

I stood at the Knoxville News Sentinel booth yesterday and listened. I listened to the newspaper professionals and I listened to the women at the expo. I did speak a few times to judge reactions. The reaction was that I needed to shut my mouth. Newspaper professionals don’t want to hear how much I love […]

making mistakes 101

Before tomorrow’s newspaper brings yet another story on the consequences of mistakes, let’s review: 1. Someone makes a mistake. 2. The mistake makes the local and/or national news. 3. The public judges the person before the legal system does. This is where people get confused. You do NOT deny, lie, blame or act worse. Instead, […]