Jackson Jambalaya

Ohhh man....just go ahead and as Jerry Clower used to say, "SHOOT THIS THANG!!! ONE OF US HAS GOTS TO HAVE SUM RELIEF!!!"

Go ahead a put a bullet in it... it's DONE!

My mother, God rest her soul, would be devastated! Her life revolved around her morning paper at 5 AM, working the crossword puzzle and crytoquip. It has been reduced to merely nothing now. We have not subscribed to it in years. In the 70s we received both Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger and enjoyed it. This will be a big change for people in their 80s and 90s who still "take" the paper. I'm thinking one day, it will not exist.

My mother, God rest her soul, would be devasted. Her life revolved around her paper at 5 AM. Drinking coffee, she worked the crossword puzzle and Cryptoquip. In the 70s we received both Jackson Daily News and Clarion Ledger. Today, it has be reduced to merely nothing. People in the 80s and 90s like my mom who begin their day with the paper are going to be upset.

Really, Kingfish? Our grandparents, our parents and many of US grew up with the Jackson Daily News and the Clarion Ledger. Both died at least 25 years ago.

Like twenty-cent picture-shows with nickel popcorn, car-hops and chicken-fried-steak at restaurants on Capital Street, that rag is nothing but a pleasant memory. We stopped grieving over this funeral years ago.

Next?

There’s a local newspaper?

Shoots the hell out of my aspiration to have run a paper route at 13 and 73 yoa.

I'm enjoying this end of life experience happening at the CL.

It has been nothing but an inflammatory mouth of the left forever. Hopefully, it will take the suicide pill its readers are providing.

Go woke, go broke.

Good grief! Anyone with 2 brain cells (which eliminates 99% of KF's readers) knows that you can read the paper on line starting at 4 AM.

So have they developed a Time Machine to be able to deliver the Sunday news on Saturday? PS. The postal service is next, 95% of what they deliver gets picked up by the garbage man the next day. Let’s eliminate that wasteful loop as well.

Ah, Bill Dees, it is not the news or contents of the paper that matters the most. It is the experience of coffee, a collection of paper, the sorting of sections, the freshness, the pen in hand, and the routine that collectively signals a good day is ahead that matters and cannot be replaced with laptop.
News was an added benefit. Being able to read what is yet to be aired on TV enhanced the experience and abled us to discuss current events in a collegial manner.
RMQ

So you'll have to wait another 6 hours to read yesterday's news.

Yeah, they've evolved, all right, like the brontosaurus: big, slow, dumb, and with a really small head. If the paper had come printed any more narrow, they could've sold it on a roll around a cardboard tube, so apropos. We'll miss it like we miss buggy whips, flint hand tools, and clap doctors.

Good riddance. I'll miss the fuel for my charcoal starter can though.

Number one on the list of things you thought you would never see; Bill Dees denigrating someone else's intellectual ability. When you stop laughing, mark that one completed.

I remember reading in the Clarion-Error that the state flag belongs in a museum. It won’t be long now there’s going to be a copy of the front page on exhibit in the very next display case.

Well that what you get when you sell out to Gannett, Maybe the guy who owns the papers in South Louiana can start a Missippi edition.

I might try that if I can get a same day paper. The Clarion-Ledger stopped home delivery in my neighborhood years ago. They have a newspaper rack a block away that never worksl

How will I find out who got shot and where in Jackson without a newspaper?

That's what they deserve by dishing up major left wing bullsh!+!

Shut the doors!

What am I supposed to line my bird cage with now?

The place stopped attempting any meaningful local news and sports coverage years ago. Why do I need a local paper that republishes day old news I’ve ready electronically?

Call me a dinosaur, but I think a market still exits for decent local news coverage that runs alternating op-Ed’s - without attempting to influence the consumer’s opinion.

Until then, we have the KF. Regardless of what folks say about you, your provide one helluva local forum. Much appreciated.

I love reading the newspaper. I guess it goes back to my childhood when Dad would read the funniest to me every morning. I guess the younger generations can’t I’d what they need on the internet! Good by to the old!

Thank for the tip! My2 brain cells are asleep until 630 am or so! I’ll look online! Don’t hide anymore of your secrets! You’re friend with brain cells that need a little more rest. Almost retired!

There is not a carrier-delivered newspaper remaining in Mississippi. They are all in the mail.

When gannet canceled Dilbert, I cancelled the CL. Used to be a fair paper. The online edition was horrible.

Sunday's news on Saturday? No problem when its all written by fiction writers.

I can agree with @8:40 P. While JJ and KF are sometimes irritating and annoying, what KF does with JJ is more like what news is supposed to be. Used to be that WAPT, WLBT, WAPT, WDAM in Hattiesburg, and, I believe, even the Clarion-Ledger provided a place to comment on articles as we do here. As they say out in the country, though, "Not no more"; the internet was too Wild West for the elite class and their mainstream media, and they shut down comment sections that sometimes (perhaps often) had more news and more accuracy than the "journalists" at their "news outlets."

In a twist on an old joke about musicians, what do you do when a journalist shows up at your door? Why, pay for the pizza.

Is that mean? Maybe. Is it deserved? Most definitely. Good night, legacy journalists, and good luck.

Alas, poor Clarion-Ledger! I knew it, Horatio; a paper of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; it hath borne me on its back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those words that I have read I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs? Your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the reader on a roar?

Those of you who don't have two brain cells to rub together and don't know to whom I should make apologies, ask Dees.

What’s a paper route, the kids will say. Folding newspapers for delivery and having over 100 impressions of Jayne Mansfield’s wrecked car was one paperboy experience of mine.

Had no idea it was still being printed. I thought most newspapers of similar size were online only?

@5:35, yes a small pamphlet with daily recycled civil rights stories. It hasn’t been a newspaper in years.

Eh, so what? All actual, factual information can be had in real time on FaceTokGram anyway. My cousin's hairdresser's brother's girlfriend's bartender's plumber's friend's dad who has worked as a used car salesman for !!!!20 YEARS!!!! knows more about everything than anyone else, so why would any rational person not believe every word he says? Only idiots would not trust him.

Oh, and, PS - we're fucked.

The city will soon follow....mail-order only.

Not unless you pay for it, Bill Dees. And what fool does?

Between the Northside Sun and the TV Stations and this blog, there’s no need for the Gannett news in Jackson.

I'm sure it's tough to find reliable people who'll deliver the newspaper to your home everyday. I was a print subscriber until home delivery went from good to unreliable to almost nonexistent. Now I get the e-edition. I won't switch back to a printed edition arriving by mail - a morning newspaper that arrives in the afternoon isn't a morning paper.

I hate to break this to you, Bill. You’re no one percenter. HTH

Was in that huge CL building downtown a couple of years ago. Former newsrooms were virtually empty. Just a few reporters in one corner. Is the paper put together now at the Hattiesburg American as I have heard?

Schadenfreude. And that's not a bad thing.

@6:26 IKR?! I have oft considered that trees are being cut in the rainforest, hauled thousands of miles, turned into paper, hauled again, turned into junk mail/sale papers, distributed, and disposed of by people like us that never even consider looking at those printed words. Then they are collected, trans ported, and made part of a big hill in Madison County (i.e., Little Dixie landfill). Think of all the jobs, tools, vehicles, fuel, etc., that are involved in this vestigial appendage of a process. This doesn't even consider the loss to the world of the rainforest. It boggles the mind.

The only paper I have delivered is the Wall Street Journal. I pretty much read it online only, except when I am traveling and cannot get good internet service. The delivery is sometimes DAYS or WEEKS late because of the horrible postal service. Sorry CL, but ain't subscribing to your paper for it to be DAYS and sometimes WEEKS late because of our Postal Service.

Hoping the Tupelo paper will fold soon as well. If anybody needs to be put out to pasture and required to get a real job, it's Sam Hall.

He's praying for Brandon Presley to be elected governor, knowing that Presley would need a permanent water-boy. Prayers are often wasted.

I gave up the WSJ print edition nearly a year ago. Gannett took over delivery several years ago and it consistently sucked. Last straw was when I went a month without delivery. Doesn't do any good to complain to WSJ because all it can do is refer complaint to the Gannett black hole. Finally said screw it and I liked getting that particular newspaper in hardcopy. Was a real newspaper.

Now the WSJ has gone and broken the app but the website works pretty well.

Is it ok to express a little shadenfreude?

For JPS alumni, or as Rush used to say, "Rio Linda," that means "pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others."

I think it is a blessing-

Damn, it was my emergency backup when for when there is a TP shortage.

November 1, 2023 at 7:08 PM You nailed it on the head for me. I still subscribe and get home delivery. Yea, the articles are slanted big time and Gannett sucks. But sippin the coffee, flippin thru the paper, doing the crossword, reading the funnies, checking the obits. I like having a paper in hand. Wont go to the website. Most are only ads and clickbate. Kingfish is the one exception. Check it every day.

One poster said it well----would like a newspaper that had honest op eds, many sections, etc. There's a paper that's delivered in Flowood thats pretty good. I'll subscribe to it.

What happened to the obits at the CL? A lot fewer in the last 6 months.

Soon the CL building downtown will be another vacant eyesore in Jackson.

Get wokie, go brokie
Just ask Disney, Anheuser-Busch, and most of the video games industry except Nintendo.

When Sam Hall refused to allow a Letter to the Editor that conflicted with negative articles in the CL about public officials or companies , newspaper ethics went out the window. Old school newspapers encouraged debate that’s why I still get the WSJ.

@11:50 am, it may have something to do with economics.

I inquired last year about placing an obit in the CL and they told me from $900 up.

I complained about it to an acquaintance who told me she had paid over $1300 -- thirteen hundred dollars, I say -- to run one in the CL of her father.

@3:43, That is outrageous! No wonder fewer people are posting obituaries. I can’t imagine what a small ad would cost.

Thank God. I cancelled my subscription 7 FUCKING YEARS AGO and yet it still shows up every day so that I can make a special trip to the end of the driveway just to put it in the trashcan. Biggest shit for brains publication I've ever seen.

The profit margin might be negative, but they are planning to make it up on huge volume!

What is interesting is that even the print edition that was home delivered contained "news" that was two and often three days old. I don't see how anybody could enjoy the morning paper dropped off by the letter carrier after lunch. This stunt will not last long as folks just don't want that service.

The imminent death of the CL was caused in part by the daily poicitally motivated front page items. They are not news. The items are quite obviously placed on the front page by "influencers" at Gannett. For contrasst, find a 1985 edition fo the CL. You will see actual news stories that things happening locally. You cannot find that now. The CL is simply not worth reading anymore.

The obituary prices are outrageous. In certain legal matters, you must publish one. I've had to place obituaries in the Madison paper, the Rankin paper, a home town paper (for my mom) and the Clarion Ledger. The home town paper was $300, the madison (non gannet) paper was reasonable and the Rankin (non gannet) paper was reasonable. The Clarion Ledger was several hundred dollars for just 1 day. And you'll need to float a loan to get Fri, Sat, and Sun.

Internet and N advertising $$$$$ killed the paper. we are dying breed that like to sit and read our paper. Sad day but coming for a long time