Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Dear Ladd, answer this question

Since you are taking shots at me on your site today why don't you fess up and tell us how much of your paper is owned by Barbara Blackmon. You know, Vice High Priestess of the Mississippi Democratic Party and former Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor. I know your paper is partly owned by her. Why don't you disclose how many shares she owns?

28 comments:

Anonymous said...

I searched the Bugle and cannot find anything. What are you talking about?

Queenfish said...

Go get em KF! "Right On, Right On, Right On!"- Rush Limbaugh

Anonymous said...

The JFP would never have reported on his blatantly racist comments KF had you not.

They can't even admit today that his comments were racist.

Kingfish said...

They don't want to give me credit, that is fine, I understand that and have no problem with it. There was nothing stopping them from digging them up themselves. Hell, I gave them the dates and they are familiar with them. I would have published those columns no matter what as any reader of this site knows and if some Republican had written them, they would've still gone up, trust me.

Anonymous said...

Sure there was nothing stopping her but Ladd never planned to dig any of it up in the first place because she is more interested in a Weill loss than sharing the truth of ShamsidDeen's racism.

Kingfish said...

I bet if I used the N word in a column and ran for office it would appear again.

Anonymous said...

Saw the story you are referencing, and it was regurgitation of JFP previous interviews and slanted stories. The Shamsid Deen coverage you did; I thought was very relevant. The coverage was, again, another fine example of solid research and presentation of facts. Too bad the other side would rather stick their head in the sand and hope it just goes away.

Anonymous said...

What the hell are you talking about? Ladd isn't sticking her head in the sand. She knows damn well Shamsid Deen's background. She intellectually corrupt.

Clipper said...

Ladd wants to be Patty Hearsy SO badly, but it's not the 70's anymore. Her shtick only works for doe-eyed college sophomores. i wonder what she'll be when she grows up?

Anonymous said...

Touche'. IMO, the activist paper did "stick their head in the sand" regarding what I considered racist comments made by the Judge in question by white washing them with an interview that did not go to the heart of his past.

Anonymous said...

Little wonder why the former Stennis scholar has been relegated to pushing fashion shows.

BOOM Fashion Model said...

I don't get this:

"Everything's complicated: Judicial candidate Ali ShamsidDeen (pictured) has drawn fire for apparently anti-white statements he made in The Jackson Advocate. Those remarks were revealed by a local blogger paid hundreds of dollars to do web work for his opponent Jeff Weill. You decide."

What is at all "complicated" about his hateful, racist statements? It's also more than a little silly to refer to articles THAT HE WROTE IN A NEWSPAPER as being "revealed by a local blogger." If I tell someone about a JFP article, have I "revealed" the article to them? The judge's comments are indefensible; which blogger posted them is irrelevant. By suggesting otherwise, JFP is simply trying to draw attention away from the real issue.

posted by williemcgee on 11/02/10 at 05:05 PM

Keep up, Willie. The JFP has long been on the record against the anti-white and brown society rhetoric the Advocate is known for, and we came out against naming the library after Mr. Tisdale due to all of that. And I am not a fan of Mr. Shamsid Deen for other reasons as well. However, it also makes sense to point out that someone making a huge deal about his comments shows up on his opponent's campaign finance reports for web work (which Mr. Weill confirmed). One thing doesn't cancel the other out, but they are both relevant pieces of information. Just because you or someone on the other side prefer one with the other doesn't change anything.

posted by DonnaLadd on 11/02/10 at 10:49 PM

Anonymous said...

Donna Ladd was a Stennis Scholar? So was I back in the day, and I don't think I feel as good about it any more.

Anonymous said...

Ladd exposes herself again as a complete fraud. She never ONCE condemned Shamsid Deen's own words.

Anonymous said...

So, according to Donner K's warped logic, Comcast was in cahoots against Shamsid Deen because I used Comcast to access the web site that presented the public writings made by Shamsid Deen, unearthed by a blogger who exhumed the words who was paid by a candidate who baked the bread............

Not that she was trying to take attention away from the candidate's own words or anything, because they might, maybe, just sayin', drive away maybe 100% of non-racist voters.........

Kingfish said...

When does she disclose Barb owns a piece of her paper? I have no problem with her mentioning my support of Mr. Weill. I supported him on this website when he first ran for council, ran for re-election, and for circuit judge. Made no bones about it. I just wish they had published some of his actual quotes if they were going to go down this path. And disclose Barb owns a piece of her paper. I think her readers have a right to know a prominent Democrat lobbyist and politician owns part of her paper if she wants to start throwing the disclosure stones.

Anonymous said...

Well, in a normal world the fact that Barb owns a piece of the Bugle would raise lots of red flags about credibility of their content. But you would have to have credibility to start with, correct?

Oh, and a readership, too. No offense to the two or three who actually read the Bugle (bless your hearts).

bill said...

Have I missed something? Is this blog, or any other blog for that matter, required to report everything in an unbiased manner? While I think KF does a pretty good job of keeping to the facts, it's his blog and he can say pretty much whatever he wants to. It would be a different story if the C/L all of a sudden started printing "news" stories about one candidate at the same time they took advertising money from his opponent. Whether they are any good at it is subject to much discussion, but they're supposed to be a news organization that keeps things fair. A blog takes on the personality of its creator, and I think this one is just fine the way it is. Bill Billingsley

Anonymous said...

You are absolutely right Bill. No one should be surprised that the JFP reflects the intellectual dishonesty and partisanship of its Editor.

Kingfish said...

Newspapers and tv stations accept paid advertising all the time from candidates while covering their campaigns. Any candidate can contact me and pay for an ad on this site. I supported Weill but ShamsidDeen or Burton could have placed ads if they paid for them as he did.

Anonymous said...

What is too funny about all of this is that LaddCo is burning cycles getting worked up that someone paid a blogger to help them set up a website. Don't let it be said that LaddCo isn't focused on the big issues facing our community. LMAO.

bill said...

Good point, KF. In a true apples to apples analogy I would have had the C/L doing web services for the candidate, but my bigger point is that you can put whatever you want, biased or not, on your blog. If Donna wants to express her opinion beyond the very biased medium that she already has, she can get her own blog. BB

bill said...

Still waiting on Donna's disclosure of who owns the JFP...BB

KaptKangaroo said...

I echo Bill's sentiment. The work you did for your customer (Mr. Weill), outside of this blog BTW, is just that: work. The advertising on this blog, and it's pretty clear its advertising paid for by the customer, is an obvious disclosure. Finally, it is your blog.

Out of shear comparison financially, I wonder how the paltry few hundred bucks would compare (dollar to dollar) to ownership interest valuation in a venture as you describe.

So much for transparency in politics and in this case, the media.

Anonymous said...

Sorry guys. The JFP franchise is so dead. If you are still reading the garbage there you've only yourself to blame. Toodles.

Anonymous said...

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phone: 601-362-6121 (ext 11 sales, ext 16 editorial, ext 17 publisher)
fax: 601-510-9019 * P.O. Box 5067 * Jackson, MS * 39296


Jackson Free Press, Inc.

Corporate Name & Principal Address:
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forgot to change their address since that box is now:
Davaine Lighting, LLC
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Jackson, MS 39225

Anonymous said...

I can't believe anyone actually reads JFP. Instead of articles, they publish saga stories. It takes 10+ paragraphs for JFP to provide 1 paragraph of relevant information. The only thing worth a hoot in JFP is their listing of events, and this is because the listings are the only thing in there that are direct and to the point. JFP is a total joke! A few weeks ago, I thought I would give the JFP another try. The editor's column was ridiculously long, and it began with a few irrelevant paragraphs about Moms in Belhaven driving too fast in the mornings. Then Ladd jumped to some other BS without connecting her thought process. The article was painfully long, and Ladd ended it with a moral about what we do, our kids pick up on. An "Aesop", Ladd is not! I concluded that JFP was still a piece of inane crap and a waste of our trees.

I work in an office with many professionals that are well read and savvy about current events in the area. In the 10+ years I've lived and worked in Jackson, I've NEVER heard any of them say, "Hey, did you see the article in the JFP?" We talk about articles in the MS Business Journal, the CL, the Sun, the NY Times, etc. We have added JJ to our list of news sources, and frankly, I think it's the most credible source of all.

Out of curiosity I'm going to take a poll among friends and co-workers to find out if any of them actually read JFP for anything other than the listing of events. I will let you all know the results.

Anonymous said...

P.S. If Ladd does provide JJ an answer, does anyone want to bet on how many paragraphs and/or the number of irrelevant sentences it takes for her to perhaps provide an adequate and relevant answer? If she doesn't read my comments, which she obviously will, since she relies on JJ to provide her with research that she and her staff are either unwilling to take on or not competent enough to take on, and since it is a direct question that was posed to her, my bet is a modest 6 sentences to 1 relevant sentence.


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