Jackson Jambalaya

Kingfish, don't you know that five years old is BREAKING! news to the Clarion Ledger?

With Jerry Mitchell as their ace, why would you be surprised at another instance of the CL looking backward and presenting old news? Besides, the story filled up empty space and they didn't have to pay for staff to write it. Next up: the apology on page 16.

There damned well better be an apology on the editorial page -- better yet, in a letter FROM the editor. Do they re-run obits, too, at the C-L, to fill space? Of course not, families have to pay for those, and the C-L doesn't do anything for free.

In case anyone at the C-L is reading this (maybe whatever unpaid intern they have over there handling the weekend editing), I am one of the 11 or 12 remaining SUBSCRIBERS y'all have. This letter pissed me off in ways I can't describe. Del's death was a deep wound to his family and hundreds of friends -- how DARE you, through sloppiness, open it up again in such a callous way?

Del's friends and family had to answer questions about this all weekend. In addition to apologizing to the public, you'd better apologize to the Rendons, Healeys, and all the people who cared for Del.

In fact, if you want to show some class (for a change), why don't you make a donation to the scholarship fund set up in Del's name at Mississippi State? That would be an apology of substance.

Yet another example of what happens when a decision is made to lay off the staffers in order to save the jobs of the management staff. The C-L org chart is an inverted pyramid.

Hey kf, your print above shows comments to the article. I went to clarion ledger website to read what people had to say about it. When I did , I am unable to see any comments. Did they remove them??

Hampton was off all last week.

Comments are there. May be a browser or flash issue.

Yeah, comments are there, albeit, uninteresting.

I keep telling everyone this; there is no one left do do anything at the C-L. Anyone that cares that is. The few that are left are so caught up in saving their own hides, they are caught in the "OOops" trap.

OOops = I did not know or I thought you checked that or run it or I told you that would be a problem or OH s&*t or how could they check, their gone.

We are just adding to their 2million hits

There is no way they get 2MM hits. No way!

The C-L probably does get that, they publish APee and Rueters stories and those two companies check their content all day long.

DO 2MM PEOPLE read the C-L? If they do, they are dumber than dirt.

Hits? Did you mean zits?

Check their content for WHAT?