Jackson Jambalaya

Oh snap!

Crap!

Knock, knock, knock

"Who's there?"

"Hello pot? This is the kettle calling. You're black."


What a freaking joke. Someone get rid of her and put us our of our misery.

Thanks alot. Now you gauranteed her google alert will go off and I'll get a long email from her whining about threats of violence against her on this website.

I thought you had to include the words "flames" or "down into" or some combination thereof to cause a whining outburst........

ANything, and I do mean ANYTHING, can cause an outburst. Just make sure you post any such communication, King, and you'll be guaranteeing that she'll stop doing it. It's only the complicity of others in not revealing her true colors that keeps her thinking she can get away with such.

Well I dare say KF that Donna Ladd isn't the only person in this town who wants to remove anonymity from the local blogosphere. We also have some major control freaks downtown who loathe anyone who challenges their bullshit.

So yes it is all about control. But it is not only Ladd who wants to restrain dissent.

Nope, you are right and I have something else in mind for dealing with the others.

They don't like being challenged and that includes the CL.

Technically, I never advocated getting rid of her "Soprano-style." I just asked someone to get rid of her.

Maybe she can go the way of the Dodo .....

Is there a nutshell explanation of the bad blood between Ladd and KF? I have seen it numerous times, but what is the genesis?

There is no bad blood. KF is an independent.

So yes it is all about control. But it is not only Ladd who wants to restrain dissent.

STOP PISSING ON MY CARPET!

Full disclosure here: I got banned from there. Matt Saldana, a reporter, smeared me on the forums so I cussed him out. Got banned. No problem with that. I broke the rule. I apologized for it also.

However, this blog does engage in media criticism. that means all the media and the CL has gotten the highest number of critical posts. If I criticize her or her rag its because she trashes people (especially women) and the CL on a regular basis. She goes way past criticism and gets personal with it. See what she did to Marshall Ramsey and Leah Rupp. Or go look on the JFP website how she treated Marcella Cartegna. Just from fact checking their stories from time to time I've found they get their facts wrong just as much as the CL does and slant their stories. Everything is a conspiracy and anyone who criticizes her is a racist.

I nailed them committing slander one time on the Jena 6 story and fully documented it. I'd actually been nice and sent them a notice a week before I did so asking them to change it as it was wrong. they didn't do it so I exposed the libel. Next thing you know she sends me a really nasty email saying I picked on the writer cuz she was black. um yeah. I politely explained why I wrote the post. Didn't matter, she threw a tantrum again and said don't ever contact her again, which I won't. I've caught her in numerous lies on her website and any read of posts about them on this blog will show them to be the case.

the funny thing is, most of the time when I criticize them its because other people have tipped me off or emailed me screen shots. Except for elections when I keep up with all the media, I don't go over there to read everything. Its usually sent to me by others.

I don't criticize the tv stations as much because frankly, they tend to be much more responsible than the JFP or CL.

JFP is NOT, and I repeat NOT a journalistic endeavor. It is advocacy. Advocacy for their way or the highway. Journalism is unbiased. Advocacy is not. The only thing free about the JFP is it's middle name.

Journalism is unbiased.

I have to disagree with that. I'm fully with Ladd that journalists are biased and kudos to her for admitting it.

The unbiased myth is killing our country. Read Moyar's Triumph Forsaken for a well documented example.

Of course David Halberstam is one of Ladd's heroes who walked on water and through his biased lens she still believes came reporting that was more fact than fiction.

How is the "unbiased myth killing our country"?

You think that is killing us?

While I would give you that journalists are biased... I would submit to you that if a journalist shows their bias, then they move to the advocacy position, and forsake what a journalist *should* be.

The problem with advocacy journalism is it doesn't fully examine the story but reports only one side.

there have been several times I started to write something, had my own position, started looking at both sides while I did my research and found out well, what I thought was true wasn't.

The prudential story over there is a good one. If I had written that story, i would have included the Prud's brief and interviewed their lawyer and also talked to an insurance guy about how the process actually works on these type of insurance contracts.

Here is what I expect: I expect a reporter to have biases. What I also expect is for them to be professional and report the facts, that includes talking to both sides on an issue. I had a liberal law school professor (Page at MC) who could argue the conservative position just as well as the liberal position. You get the idea.

One of the best things a reporter can do is have a list of go to experts on different subjects: finance, markets, real estate, local political history, legal issues, insurance, etc. Then when you have to cover a story, you can call them up even if you don't quote them and get a quick explanation. Much better than trying to do a google search only.

I've never been to the JFP website, so what is Ladd's bias? If everyone who criticizes her is racist, does that mean she is black or white?

Killing us (our country) through ignorance because our dumbed down population is unable to distinguish between the two constructs.

"Journalists" and their editors cross that invisible advocacy line of yours every single day. It isn't a matter of showing bias, they live bias and bias can be found in nearly everything they write.

When a journalist is lazy, that is advocacy. The opposite is also true. Kingfish, for example, does a ton of research but he still approaches everything he writes from a biased mindset. He can't help it. He tries like hell to consider everything but he is still shaped by his life experiences.

There is no purity. Every endeavor is advocacy. Some advocates do a much better job than others managing the dilemma within their writing.

You can decide what you like and dislike about the JFP. I'm certainly not advocating for their agenda. But Ladd should be given credit for not claiming to be unbiased. Ding her for her agenda, if you like, but don't ding her for being something she doesn't claim to be.

That is why I post the research up here as much as possible.

I have my biases but I make an effort to look at it from the other side as well. Why? It makes the story better. One of my reporter friends only reads BBC, Huffpo and Kos and her arguments are so ridiculously easy to puncture because she is never exposed to anything else.

However, when I write a story about say, Melton's taxes, or the bonds, I have a bias in favor of the truth and am fully prepared to write something I might disagree with if its good information for the reader.

This stuff about bias is overblown anyway. Its usually used by advocacy journalists to justify their sloppy reporting.

Take the Fisher story I did. The JFP, WLBT, WAPT, CL all covered their suit against Toyota. Fit their template of evil REpoublicans and corporations screwing over black peoplel yet again.

However, I went and entered their name in the UCC search on the SOS website. Then the judgements appeared. Went to courthosue and shazam, nearly 30 judgements and liens for nearly $2 million. Then I went to Pacer.

Made their suit look a little different in light of that information. That is not bias on my part, this is simply checking them out in full. Their cause of action may be a valid one and if so, then Toyota should pay for it. But the reader deserved to know about their lengthy history of stiffing everyone in sight in what looked like fraud. That was not a bias, just reporting the facts so you could reach your own fully informed conclusion

The internet search on them took all of five minutes. The courthouse trip? 30 minutes. We are not talking about heavy duty research here.

I thought they called it Jackson FREE Press cause it didn't cost nothin' to get a copy.

Crazy about Dr Page. It's a shame MC lost him to Florida.

By the way, is it a coincidence she starts spouting this stuff after the Irby mess heats up? this blog has been pretty critical of the Irbys and their connections. Natalie Irby is her good friend and former employee.

Now suddenly Ladd wants responsible blogs. Keep in mind her first headline about the wreck didn't mention the doctors' deaths.

Didn't mention the deaths of the two doctors? That's astounding.....

Why does this remind me so much of Nancy Pelosi calling for a torture truth commission? Ladd would end up hoisted on her own lengthy petard if this nonsense ever went anywhere.

Which it won't.

And yes, the Irby's have used some influence to affect some of the media coverage. The print coverage and tv coverage has been very different.