On my Facebook page and the Inside Joplin Facebook page posts from all of my blogs are promoted and I have never really taken the time to explain why certain stories are on one blog or the other.
The posts that make up the top 10 for this week for the Turner Report provide an excellent example of what I do with my first blog, which I created in 2003.
Many of my posts, including the latest updates on the Jayda Kyle murder come from court records and reliable sources close to the case.
Those posts, along with the exploration of how law enforcement arrested a 15-year-old Carthage High School student who allegedly sent a school shooting threat on Instagram and federal prosecutors' determination to keep a Joplin man charged with sending and receiving child pornography behind bars while awaiting trial come because I regularly go through all kinds of court documents to find stories that might interest those who come to the Turner Report looking for news they cannot find from other media sources.
Many times events in the news touch on things I have written about in the past and such was the case with two of the top 10 this week as former Joplin R-8 Board of Education member Mike Landis and Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce President Rob O'Brian explored runs for political office.
I have certainly written about those two in the past and was able to draw upon a wealth of material from Turner Report archives.
After initial police reports are featured in Inside Joplin, many of the cases are followed through the courts on the Turner Report, such as the case of Leonard Valdez, who is charged with the murder of three-year-old Jonathan Munoz-Bilbrey or Jalen Vaden, charged with the murder of three-year-old Jayda Kyle.
The Turner Report also features commentary on a number of issues and is the blog that will feature personal messages to you readers (like this one), or my memories of people who have passed on or different events that ring nostalgic to me.
This is the blog where each year on September 11 I write about 9-11 (except this past September 11 when I was at the emergency room after being punched by an irate reader) and on December 7, I remember my old friend Dick Ferguson, who was there at Pearl Harbor.
The Turner Report is here to report the stories that others ignore or do not seem to understand. I am there to find the information that most people do not have the time to look for and ask the questions that people want to have asked.
The Turner Report is also the place for politics coverage- national, state and local.
Inside Joplin, on the other hand, is more of a blotter and bulletin board blog with records information including arrests, marriage licenses, dissolutions, bankruptcies, auto accidents, fire runs, etc. Agendas are posted for local governmental meetings (with the exception of the Joplin R-8 Board of Education and Joplin City Council, both of which run on the Turner Report)
Though obviously there are things that can be provided in a local newspaper that I cannot provide with my blogs, the Turner Report, Inside Joplin and Inside Joplin Obituaries combine to provide you with an idea of what is going on in the community and to make sure that we do not forget those who are no longer with us.
The Turner Report has been establishing a reputation for accurate investigative reporting, occasionally irritating those in high places, and for providing a fresh alternative, even after 15 years, to other area media.
Inside Joplin and Inside Joplin Obituaries have combined with the Turner Report to offer a unique independent news operation, the kind you will be hard pressed to find anywhere else. If you want to help this operation to continue to thrive and you have not subscribed recently or made a contribution, please consider doing so at the PayPal buttons at the bottom of this post, or by sending your subscription or contribution to Randy Turner, 2306 E. 8th, Apt. G, Joplin, MO 64801.
For that price, you help fund an operation that provides news updates throughout the day every day. The prices on the subscription button are $30 annually, $3 monthly, or $1 weekly. Contributions can be made in any amount small or large.
Because I also believe in helping a fellow news operation, I feel obliged to report that the Joplin Globe is also offering a wonderful subscription bargain to its readers. Another Facebook friend pointed out to me that while I am providing the Turner Report/Inside Joplin with a suggested subscription price of $30 for a year, the Globe is offering its "award-winning content and values that you enjoy" for a bargain price, starting this month, of only $14.99 a month. Of course, that is if you are only getting the Sunday edition.
So essentially, you are paying $15 a month and not getting 26 or 27 of the newspapers the Globe publishes during that month.
That would also mean that over a year's time, you would be paying approximately $180 for a weekly newspaper. That almost makes the Neosho Daily News look like a bargain.
So if you want to pay $180 to get the Globe once a week, I will understand.
And if you want to send a few dollars this way, I am sure the Globe will understand.
The Turner Report
1, Recordings of interviews with Jaden Valen, Devyn Kyle among items turned over to defense during discovery process
2. Despite social media rumors, Judd McPherson was not at daughter's home the night Jayda Kyle was abused
3. Affidavit: Carthage student created Instagram account with school shooting threat after getting in trouble for using cell phone in class
4. Trial date set for Joplin man accused of abusing, murdering three-year-old Jonathan Munoz-Bilbrey
5. Bond set at $1 million for man accused of murdering soldier/former Joplin High School student
6. Feds say Joplin man facing child porn charges should be held without bond
7. It's not a joke. Mike Landis files for Jasper County presiding commissioner
8. Four Joplin residents, Neosho woman indicted on federal meth trafficking, conspiracy charges
9. Joplin businessman pleads guilty to federal fraud charge
10. The man who brought us Wallace Bajjali wants to take his leadership to Jefferson City
Inside Joplin
1. Keep an eye out for this vehicle stolen from Joplin home earlier today
2. Joplin Police Department Arrests February 26-27
3. Carl Junction man charged with kidnapping underage girls
4. JPD: Viral story about man at Wal-Mart stalking child, with other kids locked in his car didn;t happen in Joplin
5. Jasper County Dissolution of Marriage Petitions
6. Highway Patrol Arrests March 2-3
7. JPD officers arrest man in 7th Street Wal-Mart parking lot on felony drug charges, resisting arrest
8. Joplin Police searching for missing person
9. Jasper County Marriage Licenses
10. Joplin Police Department Arrests March 1-2
Inside Joplin Obituaries
1. Ed and Shirley Wagner
2. Nick Dunham
3. Bill Selvey
4. Jack Allman
5. Fran Riley
6. Nancy Peterson
7. Cara Barney
8. Max Beaumont
9. William Strickland
10. Charles Hirshey
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Me: Hello, Globe? Is Geoff Caldwell still on the payroll?
ReplyDeleteGlobe: Why yes he is!
Me: Ok, thank you. Click!
Since I know the Globe will read this, I'm just going to put this out there.
ReplyDeleteSeniors who do not have internet and who are also on a fixed income have already had to cut down on paper delivery.
Maybe you can give a discount to Seniors?
The Globe sucks but so does Joplin.
ReplyDeleteYes, but the Globe is a real news outlet staffed with professional journalists who have not been run out of the business.
ReplyDeleteYour free blog, on the other hand, is full of bias and dishonesty such that you have to rely on the censorship crutch. Your best work is when you comment on how those you hate are wasting the taxpayer monies, otherwise it is nothing more than liberal swill.
@7:27 PM - Spoken like Globe staff. Maybe you should stay off Randy's blog and focus more on your work at the Globe. Improvements might be made.
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