I ditched the Hawkins County Lincoln Day dinner, where Republican Phil Roe really kicked off his campaign by taking aim at incumbent David Davis‘ shins. As it turns out, I was more eager to attend an event with their Rock-Star opponent Democrat Rob Russell.
Little oops or a subconscious political preference?
Anyway, the candidates for [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ethics in journalism, headlines, Journalism, news on April 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On WVLT yesterday, I read this headline: Middle Tennessee teens say alcohol came from lawmaker.
If you were scanning the website and spotted this, what would you think? For me, it conjured up an image of some perverted ol’ state lawmaker hanging out at the local beer joints for the purpose of purchasing beer for minors…Â [...]
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Yesterday afternoon, katie granju over at WBIR’s Knox Talks directed readers to a bit of breaking news:
A WBIR report on the Sam Adams beer recall:
Thousands of 12 ounce glass bottles are being voluntarily recalled because they may contain glass fragments.
The affected bottles are embossed with the letter “N” followed by the number “35″ [...]
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Don Fenley squashed the rumor floating around that Kingsport’s redlight cameras double as speed cameras.
Here’s how it started:
Michael Silence, the all-knowing blog-watcher for the Knoxville News Sentinel, recently linked to a blog regarding Kingsport’s red light cameras.
Kingsport Times-News blogger, Don Fenley, didn’t follow the link - or if he did, didn’t bother to read beyond [...]
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