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October 15, 2004
Furdells... ON THE MARCH!
Dateline: my mom!
?Local politicians talk with even more platitudes and generalizations than the national ones,? said Elizabeth Furdell of Jacksonville, Fla. ?I assume most running for office will tout themselves as pro-family, anti-crime, pro-education. I want to know more about how candidates stand on development, traffic, schools, sewers, etc. I don?t care if they?re religious or not, only that they have some clue about these real concerns ordinary people face.?
Ahh, mom. Always so refreshingly eloquent. What's she doing in the Spokane (Wa.) Spokesman-Review? No idea.
James - 10:29 AMThat really is how she talks, too. Who else do you know who actually says "et cetera"? Or for that matter, "platitudes."
Andrew F - Oct 15, 2004 - 3:00 PMHmmm....
Your Mom has good reason to complain given the state of the local media in Jax.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2004
Florida Times-Union panel to probe plagiarism allegations
Florida Times-Union | Folio Weekly
A Times-Union committee will look into a former editorial page staffer's report that some T-U opinion pieces "were largely culled from 'research' fed to the paper by the far right." In her Folio Weekly story, Billee Bussard also says she complained to bosses about editorial page editor Lloyd Brown's habit of looking at Internet porn at work. "The Times-Union publishes a daily Bible quotation on its editorial page," writes Bussard. "During my time at the paper, I was occasionally responsible for picking the quotations. In late 1996, a period when Lloyd Brown?s porn habit became increasingly unbearable, I tried to pick material that I hoped would send him -- and upper management -- a message." (Romenesko's call to Brown on Friday went to his voice-mail. He hasn't returned the comment request.)
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Courtesy of Romenesko.
My immediate family lives in Jacksonville, but because of the local media, they are so clueless about what is going on in the world.
Phinky - Oct 17, 2004 - 8:08 PMA reporter from Spokane headed up a committee of the national journalism association (or some such name) to investigate local reporting. I'm on a reader's list put together by the Times-Union Reader Advocate, so that's why my comments got cited. Given the likely subscriber base of the T-U, I may be among the few to complain about the paper's right-wing orientation and simplistic local stories. Its editorial page makes me scream; they use Ann Coulter and Thomas Sowell as their token "minorities," rarely printing any moderate or liberal opinion. If I didn't follow local sports or need to know the times of movies, concerts, and the like, I'd cancel in a heartbeat. Folio, the alternative weekly here in Jax, doesn't have that information.
Mom - Oct 18, 2004 - 2:05 PMBut you could get all that info easily online. And it would save paper! Just another reason for you to get a freakin' cable internet connection already.
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