Showing posts with label absentee journalism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label absentee journalism. Show all posts
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Reading the Downtown Jeffersonville News and Tribune reminds me of a certain food.

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The Downtown Jeffersonville News and Tribune is getting very good at covering news that occurs within walking distance of the newspaper...
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Sunday, April 14, 2019

Paging Mr. Hanson: "Media Condemns Julian Assange For Reckless Exposure Of How They Could Be Spending Their Time."

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Bill Hanson's right on top of it. Oh, dear. Lots of religion, but not a single word about this. Meanwhile The Onion wryly ...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

My letter to the editor about Jeff Gahan's Money Machine: These are down-low times for local journalism and governance -- but I'm just a self-promotional blogger.

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I throw back my head and emit raucous laughter. Roger, The News and Tribune received a letter to the editor from you regarding the N...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Following the money: HWC Engineering made city streets even safer for speeding cars. Now the company will oversee the Reisz Mahal. Can campaign donations be far behind?

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Speaking only for myself, whenever I'm confronted with an anti-climax like this, I reach for my Rice Krispies Treats. HWC's Ed Jo...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The nadir of commentary: "It will be a great day for journalism when Chris Morris no longer has a platform for kissing the asses of those in power."

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The city bought the property. The city refused to maintain the property. If a private citizen shunned this responsibility to the same exten...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018

Bait and switch: Empathy on empty as Jeff Gahan asks you to think about an embryonic rails-to-trails fantasy rather than the resident killed by a driver while riding his bicycle downtown.

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Rest assured, it remains my goal to phase out the strident polemics -- I am, and I will, but as H. L. Mencken is my witness, I simply refu...
Friday, September 14, 2018

Holy cow, Joe Sixpack! It turns out your own two eyes were right about Summit Springs stormwater runoff.

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As to my long-term point about the theory and practice of journalism, there's this (story link below). Surveyor David Ruckman and ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Days after heroically defending press freedom, our local chain newspaper returns to swimming in fluff.

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Last week our own (or more accurately, the city of Jeffersonville's) News and Tribune hopped on the Boston Globe  "free press...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Ironically, "dereliction of duty" is the Trump-obsessed News and Tribune's default as it pertains to the excesses of Team Gahan.

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Can someone fetch the irony sickness bag? We can be sure that somewhere this morning deep within the labyrinthine bowels of the down-low...
Monday, July 16, 2018

But Ms. Duncan, when will the News and Tribune begin to "speak out" on relevant local issues and "challenge" local leaders?

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Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. The newspaper manages the first half of the equation, but seldom the second. Editor,...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Cooking school crashes into Jeffersonville home, and the paper is right there to baste it.

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File under: Muscle memory, although "atrophy" is a more appropriate word. It should come as no surprise that on the day after...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Just imagine if we had a newspaper in New Albany (1): Politically, it has been all Jeffersonville-centric.

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Jeff Gillenwater's Fb summary of the differences in the News and Tribune's political coverage of Jeffersonville and New Albany is...
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Just imagine if we had a newspaper in New Albany (2): Dissecting PACs in Jeffersonville, not in New Albany.

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There are numerous items of interest in the campaign finance reports submitted by Jeff Gahan, Kevin Zurschmiede and me. Perhaps less so ...

Just imagine if we had a newspaper in New Albany (3): Debate fact checking in Jeffersonville -- not New Albany.

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Of course, the first advantage enjoyed by voters in Jeffersonville is that neither of their mayoral candidates decided to game the debate ...

Just imagine if we had a newspaper in New Albany (4): Mayoral propaganda questioned in Jeffersonville -- not New Albany.

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There's a story just like this one waiting to be written, right here in New Albany. City Hall's conventional media touts, social m...