Jackson Jambalaya

BWHAHA The Clarion Ledger trying to "Correct" errors in reporting. That's classic. The CL has fastly become the little brother to the Commercial Appeal.

I always like Bobby Cleveland and Orley Hood. While I like Rick Cleveland's articles, his attitude toward the paying customers should have gotten him fired long ago.

Rick Cleveland was talented, but was very arrogant towards the public.

I STILL miss Orley.

Understand where you come from about Rick but I've been around enough writers, artists, and musicians to know too many of the talented ones suck at people skills. They just think differently and don't always understand that as some do such as Marshall Ramsey.

Why did he cave so fast if he knew the truth?

Whats with the autoplaying ad and news story on the front page?

Its audio.

on my site or the CL?

It seems to have stopped. Earlier this morning, as soon as your site loaded, it started playing audio for a Don Evans commercial then followed with what I think was WLBT news.

I think it was WJTV's story from the other day.

Sorry, I posted the above to soon. Still doing it. I'm using chrome browser. Happens on your main page. Don Evans commercial followed by the Phillip Gunn sidestep interview.

I'll change it. Everyone has read it now anyway. Its the browser. Doesn't do it in FF or Opera.

Btw, been playing around with Opera. Pretty good browser.

Try it now.

On your post about costs, it seems someone should put pressure on our new "progressive" conservative legislative leadership to publish legislative budgets online. Bills are posted online, live debate can be heard online. Why in the hell can't they put documents online that are already in an electronic format??

$100 to $1 says the clarion ledger would use the terms layoff if reporting on another organization. The primary role of their "editors" is to further distort what the reporter has already distorted due to incompetency and laziness. And seriously folks, its not like Rick Cleveland is a pulitzer prize winner. He worked for a rag for his entire career.

I STILL miss Orley Hood, too. No regrets on seeing David Hampton gone. Never really agreed with him on anything except getting the watered-down Animal Cruelty bill passed.

Say what you will, but, a buyout is NOT a layoff. A layoff probably would have resulted later; however, these people were NOT laid off. Also, the least of differences is the fact that a person who is laid off can draw unemployment for up to a year and a half at approx. $145 a week. Words have meanings.

Some of you act like the Clarion Ledger is the only place who has offered buyouts to their employees when it fact many, many companies offer them to reduce their workforce. In fact it happens quite often. Buyouts are usually always limited to people who have the most time and and expertise. Many people take them and leave. Some go to work somewhere else. Others don't. If you think anyone can't be replaced in any organization, they can, and they are every single day.

Finally, Rick Cleveland had a huge following of sports fans who very much respected and appreciated his work. Nothing any of you can say is ever, ever going to change that. He has forgotten more about sports than most of us will ever know. He was asked soon after Michael passed away to consider taking the Exc Director position at the MS Sport Hall of Fame Museum. He left the Clarion Ledger on good terms because he wanted to go and is very, very happy to assume his new position.

Hampton left about 28 years too late. They say he's a good guy, but he's pretty much always wrong, told a ton of lies in print and didn't deserve to be read.

Some of you act like the Clarion Ledger is the only place who has offered buyouts to their employees when it fact many, many companies offer them to reduce their workforce.

Prove it. Where has anyone here written or alluded that to be the case.

i am really sick of this blubbering
blather from rick cleveland! hey rick! just go away!

It seems Mrs. Cleveland only had one portion of gentle-kindness to pass to one of her children and Bobby got it.

Rick Cleveland has a huge following of fans who have read and respected his work for many, many years. He was the best of the best when it came to reporting MS sports news and telling it like it was.

I wish Rick the very best as he begins his work as the Executive Director of the MS Sports Hall of Fame. He will do an outstanding job just as Michael did when he was there. I feel comfortable that our museum is in very good hands again.

Leonard Bernstein was a complete jerk but I loved to listen to his albums.