Can we say tasteless? Once again her hatred for all things Melton leads her to write a very irresponsible story which she later admitted was based on unconfirmed information. It's pretty clear she means Melton is about to die and decides she just has to scoop everyone else in town. Of course, it never occured to her if Melton was going home, then family and/or friends would be there as well to take him home. Once it becomes clear Melton is not going to die, she changes the story to the one seen in the second screen shot. Imagine her histrionics if the Clarion-Ledger had done this.
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They were given a bad lead and issued a retraction when it didn't check out. It happens.
You are absolutely correct. I agree 100% with your assertion and logic.
however, as I wrote, imagine if the CL had done the same thing. She's made a practice of bashing the rest of the media for this kind of reporting. In fact, her trademark phrase is "factchecking.its.not.that.hard."
That's JFP apologia bullshit @ 9:46 am. They might have been given a bum lead but then she chucked all her best practices claptrap that she spews in her role as self-annointed journo-queen to the side of the road and just went with it BEFORE checking anything out. Furthermore, it is clear she was alluding that Melton was on the verge of dying. Like or dislike Melton, this was the JFP at its repugnant vulture best circling what she hoped would be his corpse so she could gloat about being first. The hypocrit in the glass house got caught.
A retraction? Where? Ladd didn't issue a retraction, she weaseled with an excuse:
The Jackson Free Press has been getting mixed reports about Mayor Frank Melton. We first heard that family and friends are gathering at Mayor Frank Melton's side in St. Dominic Hospital, but that report did not check out when JFP reporters went to the hospital.
The meaning and intent of her first post was clear. That was never retracted. Read BJ's comment:
Not to be crass, but when I saw the earlier version, I thought that the mayor was availing himself of the last available means of escape. I hope that Mayor Melton remains healthy, both for his sake, and so that he might stand trial. Jackson needs a public moment of accountability from this man. ~~ posted by Brian C Johnson on 01/09/09 at 05:26 PM
Is that clear or do you have a progressive vision problem bordering on intellectual blindness?
Like Tom Head recently commented here you are probably expecting too much from a nano-budget free weekly entertainment newspaper.
What would she have to write about without Melton? She doesn't even know him the way a True Jacksonian does. We all listened to him twice a week on the Bottom Line. She admitted that she wasn't around back then. Crack is a terrible drug. It ruins people, families, and neighborhoods. Just the way it has ruined Jackson over the last couple of decades. What if people were smoking crack in her neighborhood? Dought she would let the ACLU decide what was best.
She chose to leave this state. A lot of us chose to stay here and make do and make better. Jacksonions are a family. She is acting like our new stepmother barging in and trying to change a good thing. Enough is enough!!
We are not that bad.
tonight the interns will be beaten
MWA, Head's to the left of Ladd. Why are you listening to that nut? The only reason he said the entertainment weekly thing was because he got his diaper in a wad after he thought Donna Ladd didn't wuv him anymore. He's not even worth taking seriously when he's sane, much less when he's out of his gourd. Anyway read his comments in the JFP thread. If anybody deserves to be called a vulture it's him.
the last post was by Ladd
Umm, this is the real MWA. I think someone is having some fun and using my initials. I just noticed this. That comment above ain't from me.
Who is me?
Geez Louise "Matt". Are you paranoid? Are you someone famous? Should we know who you are? Nobody knows what MWA stands for. Nobody gives a damn. Go set up an altar to yourself, light some candles, burn some incense and do some Hari chants. Geez.
BTW, Kingfish, stop using my initials. Oh, and before I forget, tell Bert Case I'm waiting for him.
The real MWA, you just got PWNED.
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