The reader is not at all impressed with the work I am doing.
In the post, I noted that you could pay approximately $200 a year to subscribe to the Joplin Globe or $30 a year to subscribe to the Turner Report/Inside Joplin.
So you can either pay $200 a year to have the articles and photographs of more than a dozen professional, objective journalists delivered to your doorstep daily, or you can pay $30 a year to read the slanted ramblings of an ex-teacher with an agenda and no regard for journalistic ethics.
Put in that context, does it still sound like a bargain?
While I always hate to disagree with a reader, yes, it does.
I would love to receive comments on this one.
Please name 6 of these 12+ objective journalists at the Globe. None are objective when they are edited by an Editor and Publisher with obvious favortism. Pro-Rohr, Pro-Woolston, Pro-Speck even after exposed, and you speak of objective as if you know what it means. You should pick your friends better, birds of a feather.
ReplyDeleteDescribing the Globe as "professional" and "objective" actually made me laugh out loud.
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I would be interested in hearing this persons definitions of the words "professional" "objective" and "bargain". Evidently they differ from mine! Keep up the good work, Randy!
ReplyDeleteI happened onto a Globe paper the other day. Many years ago I left my subscription lapse as it had gone by the wayside after Simpson. What a paper it used to be and whatever happened to true investigative reporting versus crap about Rangeline restaurants? They, the reporters, are selling their souls for a pension and benefits versus being true news people. Many "professionals" have seen their company change and are not willing to compromise their integrity for comfort. Alas, we have a cadre of reporters that do not, have not, shown the backbone to stand up and say "no more" to the crap of Glob leadership. I am sorry for you and your children to have to see what you are truly made of inside.
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ReplyDeleteYou must be joking, Pound is only read by 4th graders in Special Ed, Finley is only read by Stark as an appetizer, and Stark is read only by Pound and Finley. It's the circle of life.
Sometimes people say the dumbest things!
ReplyDeleteIf you don't subscribe to the Glub you won't get all those great advertising stuffers! Where else can a guy get the Monkey Wards sales fliers!
DOH!
@3:22 I'm not the Globe hater that some of you are but Mike Pound?! Mike Pound?! To read his elitist crud masked as folksy, small town wisdom sickens me. I'd like to see him live on his columnists salary instead of that vault of old Elliff money. I've read 8th grade essays that were Hemingway-esque compared to Pound's scratchings. But hey, he is a sleazy Democrat so some of you would give him a pass for that alone.
ReplyDeleteThe Globe is a paper? Who knew?
ReplyDeletePound is my daily chuckle and I left 4th grade 70 yrs ago. Only requirement for enjoying Pound is a warpo sense of humor that takes you thru life with a light hearted attitude. Turner report fills in the gaping lack of facts in a number of happenings last few yrs..I wouldn't miss it!
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