Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Foreclosures rise in Mississippi

Realtytrac reported Mississippi ranked 43rd in foreclosure filings last month. The number of foreclosure filings increased 3.14% from July 2009 and 108% from August 2008. Report However, Mississippi still fared better than the rest of the country in terms of foreclosure activity.

15 comments:

JDBerry said...

Recession is over

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQ6iVGh2tkgdbkyaZBrqeP-BqpdwD9ANSQ880

Anonymous said...

This is funny KF because when it comes to serious business coverage in this market the JFP is dead last.

Kingfish said...

They are full of crap. The WSJ editorial page has been all over Fannie and Freddie for years and this blog wrote about their crazy programs in 2007.

Anonymous said...

No doubt a very small step but we're one step closer to an independent audit of the Federal Reserve. The fact that some Democrats are also backing the effort is a good omen.

Anonymous said...

They are full of crap.

Yeah, Ladd can crow all she wants about the C-L and demean local blogging efforts such as yours but that doesn't mean for one minute that her JFP has become some defacto 'source of record' locally or statewide nor than anyone in this area will wait until she gets around to covering something.

Rust never sleeps. The JFP's brief moment of leadership is years gone by in the rearview mirror. Ladd is inextricably tied to the old tech of print and her online-only eyeballs won't pay the bills.

We're all the fourth estate now.

Kingfish said...

Since they just hired a real reporter as their assistant editor so I wouldn't be surprised if the reporting improves. It was pretty good when Brian C. Johnson was there. I disagreed with him a bunch but I had a lot of respect for his ability.

Anonymous said...

@10:41 AM did you notice the striking similarities between Donna Ladd and this David Hampton [Info is so easy, but often just so wrong] column? Birds of a feather.

Kingfish said...

I read the column by Hampton and it was easy to take it personally but the truth is, alot of blogs DO put out trash that is unsubstantiated or badly spun. WND is real bad about that, especially their so-called ace reporter, Jerome Corsi. I try to support what I write with evidence and records and when their is something that is better addressed by a news organization, I have and will bring it to their attention so they can pursue it further.

Anonymous said...

C'mon Fish. Hampton isn't complaining about bad blogs. He's being parochial. He has competition and he doesn't know how to compete. You can get fresher unvarnished political news from Salter's 2-hour radio Supertalker each afternoon than the wire service regurgitation the C-L editors in their infinite wisdom decide to print out each day.

So, ex-fucking-actly like Ladd, Hampton babbles on about fact checking, and partisanship, and special interests, and the evil soldiers on talk radio, and how the public has to be more "discerning" plus other mis-directional bullshit to draw attention away from the fact that his franchise is falling further and further behind the curve. Change a few words, put Ladd's name on the byline and you'd never know it was Hampton who wrote the column.

Sorry, the Internet has leveled the playing field. Readers no longer have to accept shit, and the shit, from the elitist gatekeepers at the C-L or JFP. Readers no longer have to accept what they are willing to serve up for consumption. We don't need two journo-fascists in Jackson telling us what they want us to know about ongoings in Washington DC when we can go directly to spectrum-wide sources closer to the action. And as you've proven with JJ, for example, we can't count on the C-L or JFP to ferret out much of the corruption, incompetence and obfuscation going on here at home.

They're losing their grip on the agenda and their control of the discussion flow and they can't stand it. They are tied to a print medium that restricts their ability to be nimble in response to a readership base that is now equally as fleet and equally as intelligent -- or more so -- as they are. They want, and pretend, and beg, and claim to be a one-stop source but readers now have other real-time options that exceed the C-L and JFP offerings in quality AND quantity. Single-sourcing is a dead concept. It is a boat anchor. Print has been trumped because everyone has online access to a plethora of sources.

So Hampton (like Ladd how many times before?) attacks the other messengers because they can't compete.

Now I hope that you aren't starting to cop an attitude on us.

Anonymous said...

I read his article. He sounds like he wants to be my Dad.

Anonymous said...

1:07
Are we not agreed that we should check out the reliability of information before going off half-cocked whether it's the CL or some other source?

You're not arguing that the public shouldn't be discerning, are you?

Anonymous said...

Are we not agreed that we should check out the reliability of information before going off half-cocked whether it's the CL or some other source?

You're not arguing that the public shouldn't be discerning, are you?


Are you naive? The reason I ask is because I can't think of any other reason why you'd ask such a stupid question.

Anonymous said...

I think it's a felony to use the word reliability in the same sentence with CL. Good thing Kingfish is listing all these lawyer names on here.......

Kingfish said...

by all means judge the information for yourselves. That is why I put up the appropriate documents and statutes whenever possible as I think you guys can read them and figure them out for yourselves.

Take Adam Lynch's story about Insurance and domestic violence in MS yesterday in the JFP. Good story and I mean that sincerely. Good issue and kudos to him for finding that story. Just wish he had posted or cited the actual law that allowed insurers to consider domestic violence a pre-existing condition. Having said that, the JFP is much better than the CL about posting .pdf's and its almost non-existent among the tv stations.

Anonymous said...

Wait a minute Kingfish. WAPT does post PDFs ... YOUR PDFs!


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