It amazes me that some journalists(?) in SF actually collect a paycheck. I checked all 3 TV stations and our local paper. No news about one of the most explosive city council meetings in history. Not a peep. I wonder what it feels like to have city hall’s fist around your balls? Mine hang freely.
Do you have a plan to provide the highlights and details soon on your blog?
I think the video speaks for itself and I think the commenters on my previous post and Jen Holsen have done a pretty good job of summing it up.
Freedom of the press, everywhere but Sioux Falls. One would think this would upset journalists. One revolutionary reporter would sell a lot of papers.
Now just to find a carrier that doesn’t rob people.
What can you expect from the largest newspaper in the State who furloughs their reporters for a week without pay. Crazy!
Not sure if everyone who reads your blog reads Jennifers. Just in case, here’s a recent post on just this issue.
http://jenholsen.blogspot.com/2011/12/changes-in-newspaper-world.html#comment-form
I guess a little chiding doesn’t hurt;
http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive/index.cfm?VideoFile=120110council
I guess after the meeting I.L. & Stanga were having a conversation with Erpenbach in the parking lot, and the mayor came storming up wanting to talk to Tim, and Erpenbach bolted and the Mayor and Tim got into a heated argument and the mayor told I.L. he wasn’t talking to him.
The mayor needs to grow the hell up.
Be careful, you’ll have zoning police after you. We stopped that and citizens no longer need pay fines. Now we must stop our taxes from going to this dictatorship and set up a new government. How about some ‘Occupy Sioux Falls’ around city hall. Maybe a flash mob.
Alice – He needs to realize when you make controversial appointments you need to own up to it and stop crying about people criticizing him for it.
Is the Argus going to a Paywall? Maybe
http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/tip-more-paywall-sites-named-plus-3.html
l3wis – The Mayor also needs to realize that a community member can have their say, their opinion, their stance, etc on an issue and that doesn’t warrant an argument in a prking lot. You are the Mayor for gosh sakes – you need to be better than that.
… watched the chiding issued from the Mayor’s office in the KELO interview.
It’s not the words which he used (“…wellll, guess what !!”; “…you’re dead wrong!”), nor the tone of his voice … the look in the eyes of HisManMike (TM) is one of a defiant man … “I dare you …”
Reminds me of Robert Conrad in those battery commercials:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr-oLQgvcuk
Thank goodness calculators are solar powered now! Too bad we can’t have solar powered cassette players!
I’m finding the news here to be all fluff. Ridiculous fluff. They don’t report about anything of substance. I think the attitude of the news establishment is that South Dakotans (at least people in Sioux Falls) can’t handle the boat being rocked in any way so all they talk about is fluffy crap. Go to other cities and journalists LIVE to rattle cages, to shake things up. But the news establishment seems way too cozy with the people in government and with their advertisers.
Last week there was a big controversy with the owner of the NY Express Pizza restaurant beating up his wife over New Years. This was nowhere in the news. The wife posted her pictures on Facebook and everything! I wrote to all of the news establishments. Days later they did some fluff piece about it on one of the TV stations and they did everything they could to avoid naming the wife-beating husband. He probably buys advertising from all of them and they wouldn’t want to step on the toes of a paying customer, would they?
Fuck that Brooklyn meathead and his shitty pizza. I even wrote about his shithole in an Ugly Table.
http://www.southdacola.com/blog/2011/08/the-ugly-table-52/
Randall Beck just tweeted this – Check out the Sunday Argus leader – and argusleader.com – for news on our new multi-platform content strategy and subscription model. Cool!
So we’re supposed to be excited about the paywall?
The pizza place story could and should have been huge if there was some sort of fearless reporter in this town. His wife’s injuries happened just before KSFY did a fluff piece on how great of a family businessman he is. At that very moment she was reportedly imprisoned in her own house. The conclusion of the story had him saying that he loved his family oh so much, and was on his way home to spend New Years Eve with her. Instead he was at the bars hitting on other women as his wife was being rescued by family members.
So we’re supposed to be excited about the paywall?
I suspect this is what he’ll tell us we should be excited about.
1. The content you now see at http://www.argusleader.com for nothing, will now cost you $9.95 a month or a mere $2.00 for a two day pass. The really good news is IF you are already a paying subscriber to the tree killing print edition, or the E-Edition, you get what you have always gotten for nothing in the past, FOR NOTHING IN THE FUTURE.
2. The tree killing edition can be traded in for the E-Edition for EXACTLY the same price. WOW. How do I sign up for that one?!?!
3. For an additional $4.00 a month you can get BOTH the tree killer AND E-Edition AT THE SAME TIME.
4. OH….and by the way…monthly rates are going up…under ANY format, because the cost of the Sunday tree killer is going from $1.50 to $3.00.
Does this mean their employees will start getting paid for vacations?
Loved this comment from their digital guy;
“Cory Myers – Argus Leader Media
Hi all – Not many questions yet, but I’ll offer some (unsolicited, admittedly!) additional information. Nobody, not KELO, not radio, not any other news and information outlet, covers Sioux Falls like the journalists at the Argus Leader. And all of that work is available at argusleader.com. From our investigative reporting on issues in the judicial system concerning D.U.I.s and educational standards in our schools, to daily livestreamed video offerings (think high school sports, politics, local music), to the best beat reporting (nobody covers SDSU or USD like Terry and Mick) to Argus911, the most up-to-date public safety source, we deliver what the other media channels follow. At its base, what we do, our role in keeping you informed about your community, has value. We think most will recognize that.”
Um, so telling me stories like how someone’s giant inflatable acorn got stolen from their front yard over Christmas is news that I should pay money for? What 5th-tier journalism program did these people come from? I think we wrote more poignant, relevant and informative stories in JUNIOR HIGH!