Media

A Story of a Stripper and the Congressman

For the past two weeks or so, I’ve been working on two issues: A story for the Chattanooga Times Free Press and getting a virus problem fixed on the server hosting this site that was infecting this web site.
A few weeks ago, I managed to snag an exclusive in-person interview with Ginger Lee, whose real [...]

Gannett's Troubles Filter Down to Tennessean

Nashville’s intelligentsia – basically business, civic and political leaders – often laments the Tennessean’s editorial quality.
With the exception of a couple of bright spots here and there, the chatter is generally that local news coverage is shallow, slow or sometimes nonexistent. Those who have been in the main daily paper’s newsroom lately describe it as [...]

Tennessean flubs another Preds story

Preds Nation, The Tennessean is at it again. Nashville’s main daily seems to have an affection for skewering the NHL hockey team for maximum impact, this time the day the team gets on the ice for its first pre-season game.
The front-page story this morning on the Nashville Predators ignoring or skirting [...]

Analysis: Tennessean throws Dean a bone with Amphitheater idea

Today’s Tennessean story on Mayor Karl Dean considering an amphitheater for the former Thermal site downtown shows how a newspaper can revive an old story and make it look new while giving a politician the opportunity to take an old idea and make it his.
While the story mentions that former [...]

ECD officials eye "We Are Nashville" for marketing city

Nashville’s devastating flood finally drew national attention. But a massive widespread community response also appeared in the coverage and now could become a selling point for recruiting companies here.

Dean, country star shoot pro-tourism commercial

Nashville’s tourism and convention industry is having difficulty shaking the images of floods in the minds of visitors so a country star has stepped up to help.

The Snoop: Greetings from Nashville….

The Snoop: New City Paper editor steps in it. ….Bernhardt battling. …NAI reasserts itself.

Beloved couple latest casualties of flood

The number of deaths grew by two this afternoon when the bodies of Bill and Frankie Rutledge were found in the woods along Richland Creek in the Belle Meade area.

God of Thunder comes to Franklin!

KISS' Gene Simmons
KISS legend Gene Simmons comes to town to start…..an insurance company.
By Richard Lawson
You wouldn’t think that Gene Simmons, the snake-tongued, fake blood-spitting founder of legendary rock band KISS, could sneak up on folks in the Nashville area. …

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Southcomm lays off more employees, including Post Politic's Kleinheider

Nashville media giant Southcomm announced a new round of layoffs today, including arguably the state’s most popular political blogger.