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MetroPulse- Photo Spread on Commission Race in VERY Poor Taste- Contact the Editor
Submitted by reform4 on Thu, 2008/08/14 - 9:23pm.
If you haven't seen this week's Metropulse, check out the photo spread associated with Frank Cagle's article on the Commission race. All the candidates are shown, with those who lost their races stamped with a giant red "LOSER" across their faces.
Now, I have thick skin, don't get me wrong. If it was just me, I wouldn't care. But I saw an entire slate of good people who gave a significant portion of their lives over the last six months, and most put in a good chunk of their own funds ($7000 for me), offering themselves over to the community for service to try to make things better and move this county forward.
To stamp "Loser" across their faces is about the worse journalistic decision I have seen in this community all of my life. These people are winners in my book. Coury Turcyzn, the Metropulse editor, appears to be the real loser.
Check out the issue for yourself. If you think this is as reprehensible as I do, please take a moment to contact the editor, Coury, at this link, let him know how you feel, and request a written apology.
Better yet, call the Metropulse offices (522-5399) Friday or Monday and ask to speak to Coury directly. Demand an apology from the editor in the next issue for this shameful decision.
Submitted by AD (not verified) on Fri, 2008/08/15 - 11:37am.
"He's right- you guys are the losers.
I don't see you putting your butt, your time, and your personal money on the line.
Just sit back there in your ivory tower and keep thinking your juvenile jokes are funny. Meanwhile, watch other responsible upcomers like the Voice eat your lunch and put you and your fellow hacks out on the unemployment line.
Apologize. Or I'll be happy to make sure your advertisers know how much I look down on the MP and how much I look up to the Voice and others, and suggest they move their ad dollars."
** I suggest we make comments to the advertisers as well **
Submitted by reform4 on Fri, 2008/08/15 - 10:15pm.
Yeah, that was a bit of hyperbole. I just couldn't think of anything else recently, but I'm sure there's been worse. I agree with the writer above... I think "juvenile" is the best word to describe it. Childish.
Submitted by RayCapps on Fri, 2008/08/15 - 12:17pm.
To heck with the rest of the thing. They also had the unmitigated gall to trash Louis' Restaurant yesterday. At least someone or other put foward a fairly decent defense of the place in the online comments. But sheesh! Trash Louis'? That's near as bad as callin' my momma a bad name.
Submitted by Sandra Clark on Fri, 2008/08/15 - 6:35pm.
Kathy Bryant, Albert Baah, Chuck Ward and Thomas Baer are good folks who offered themselves and for whatever reason were not selected. To blast them as "losers" was low. And where was Chuck Bolus?
For that matter, where were Mike Padgett, Randy Tyree, Andrew Graybeal, Robert Bratton, Amy Henley Vandergriff, etc.?
I may be projecting too much of my own opinion into this, but I took the art direction of the MP piece as a comment on the turnout for the election.
You want to bitch about county government? Fine, but statistically speaking, you probably didn't vote. And you know what? The person who might've represented your views in some manner that might've made a difference:
Submitted by Sandra Clark on Sat, 2008/08/16 - 12:50pm.
Ian: So you're saying it WAS selective losership. Makes perfect sense. Duh. That accounts for the pictures of generally more progressive and less establishment candidates. -- s.
Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Sat, 2008/08/16 - 2:38pm.
I fail to get the connection. If you wanted to lampoon the low turnout show a cartoon of an empty voting booth next to a cartoon of a guy on the couch and stamp loser on the couch potato.
As it was you are just being juvenile. And not helping the cause of democracy which requires a choice of candidates to function.
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"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."
Submitted by StaceyDiamond on Sat, 2008/08/16 - 6:51pm.
I'm suprised nobody had complained with Ear cracking jokes about those present at the UU shooting less than one week afterwards. I thought the picture was in very bad taste.
Submitted by Kathy Bryant (not verified) on Mon, 2008/08/18 - 6:02pm.
I have never commented on line before but I feel it necessary to say something in regards to the Metropulse article and its use of "loser" over my and several other candidates pictures in this last issue. I chose to run to give the citizens in District 6 a choice. I ran on the premise that the citizens wanted a voice on County Commission and someone who whould listen to them and act on their behalf. I remain hopeful that my opponent will do just that. I find it juvenile and absoulutely inapproriate for the Metropulse to call anyone willing to put themselves under the policital microscope a "loser". I was painfully reminded why decent people choose not to run for public office when I saw the article. I have thick enough skin and I also have a healthy understanding that all this is really not so important in the end. The people have spoken. It's time to move forward. While an apology would be nice, I won't hold my breath. The Metropulse and the Newssentinel will do what they want, don't they always??
Submitted by scottfrith on Tue, 2008/08/19 - 9:50am.
Tasteless? Sure.
But if you don't want to be ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered -- don't run for public office or become a public figure. It's a nasty business and wishing it weren't so, or complaining about it, generally doesn't make a darn bit of difference.
I wish there was a snark/sarcasm mark included with this comment. No doubt your statement is true. Does it have to be? Is that why it is so hard to get good people to run for office?
They have a right to print whatever they want about me/us (short of legal slander, of course...).
But we have a right to get together as a group and bitch about their juvenile behavior, and to tell their advertisers that they're wasting their money on a low-level rag, run by a bunch of unprofessional children who think they're cool- a paper that might be out of business in a few years if it remains so poorly run.
All it would take would be a simple apology and admission that it was a bad call. I'll be interested to see Thursday if they have the fortitude to admit a stupid mistake. To my knowledge, nobody has gotten any return calls / emails.
Submitted by Sandra Clark on Wed, 2008/08/20 - 7:39am.
As someone who has run for office, I agree with Scott. I was slammed with a vicious personal attack at age 23.
Politics is a game -- it's football time in Tennessee. You work in the weight room, run sprints, get into condition -- then you run like heck to win.
To say you "offer yourself" for public service is like suiting up 11 skinny freshmen and putting them on the field against Bama. They're gonna get killed. -- s.
Submitted by Up Goose Creek on Thu, 2008/08/21 - 1:01pm.
It is one thing to anticipate being "ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered" by one's opponent or their minions. Fortunately the majority of our local candidates haven't sunk to this level.
I would never expect a mass market newspaper to be so juvenile.
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"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."
"He's right- you guys are the losers.
I don't see you putting your butt, your time, and your personal money on the line.
Just sit back there in your ivory tower and keep thinking your juvenile jokes are funny. Meanwhile, watch other responsible upcomers like the Voice eat your lunch and put you and your fellow hacks out on the unemployment line.
Apologize. Or I'll be happy to make sure your advertisers know how much I look down on the MP and how much I look up to the Voice and others, and suggest they move their ad dollars."
** I suggest we make comments to the advertisers as well **
"To stamp "Loser" across their faces is about the worse journalistic decision I have seen in this community all of my life."
Really?
Yeah, that was a bit of hyperbole. I just couldn't think of anything else recently, but I'm sure there's been worse. I agree with the writer above... I think "juvenile" is the best word to describe it. Childish.
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To heck with the rest of the thing. They also had the unmitigated gall to trash Louis' Restaurant yesterday. At least someone or other put foward a fairly decent defense of the place in the online comments. But sheesh! Trash Louis'? That's near as bad as callin' my momma a bad name.
Well to be fair, I've never understood what's so great about Louis' either.
NM
That orange dye Louis' puts on the spaghetti upsets my tummy.
Kathy Bryant, Albert Baah, Chuck Ward and Thomas Baer are good folks who offered themselves and for whatever reason were not selected. To blast them as "losers" was low. And where was Chuck Bolus?
For that matter, where were Mike Padgett, Randy Tyree, Andrew Graybeal, Robert Bratton, Amy Henley Vandergriff, etc.?
Selective losership?
For that matter, where were Mike Padgett, Randy Tyree, Andrew Graybeal, Robert Bratton, Amy Henley Vandergriff, etc.?
It was beyond rude, it was incoherent.
So you understood it completely.
True happiness is knowing you are a hypocrite. -- Ivor Cutler
I may be projecting too much of my own opinion into this, but I took the art direction of the MP piece as a comment on the turnout for the election.
You want to bitch about county government? Fine, but statistically speaking, you probably didn't vote. And you know what? The person who might've represented your views in some manner that might've made a difference:
BAM! Loser.
Steve,
Real sorry to you and the others that the MP choose that layout and graphics. Bad choice on their part.
Thanks for running and addressing the issues. I hope you will try again.
Pamela
Ian: So you're saying it WAS selective losership. Makes perfect sense. Duh. That accounts for the pictures of generally more progressive and less establishment candidates. -- s.
I fail to get the connection. If you wanted to lampoon the low turnout show a cartoon of an empty voting booth next to a cartoon of a guy on the couch and stamp loser on the couch potato.
As it was you are just being juvenile. And not helping the cause of democracy which requires a choice of candidates to function.
____________________________________
"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."
I'm suprised nobody had complained with Ear cracking jokes about those present at the UU shooting less than one week afterwards. I thought the picture was in very bad taste.
You are a Loser. you lost the race.
The Metro Pulse, while not perfect, does serve a purpose.
It makes an excellent bird cage liner and when shredded, works quite nicely in hamster cages too.
I have never commented on line before but I feel it necessary to say something in regards to the Metropulse article and its use of "loser" over my and several other candidates pictures in this last issue. I chose to run to give the citizens in District 6 a choice. I ran on the premise that the citizens wanted a voice on County Commission and someone who whould listen to them and act on their behalf. I remain hopeful that my opponent will do just that. I find it juvenile and absoulutely inapproriate for the Metropulse to call anyone willing to put themselves under the policital microscope a "loser". I was painfully reminded why decent people choose not to run for public office when I saw the article. I have thick enough skin and I also have a healthy understanding that all this is really not so important in the end. The people have spoken. It's time to move forward. While an apology would be nice, I won't hold my breath. The Metropulse and the Newssentinel will do what they want, don't they always??
Tasteless? Sure.
But if you don't want to be ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered -- don't run for public office or become a public figure. It's a nasty business and wishing it weren't so, or complaining about it, generally doesn't make a darn bit of difference.
I wish there was a snark/sarcasm mark included with this comment. No doubt your statement is true. Does it have to be? Is that why it is so hard to get good people to run for office?
They have a right to print whatever they want about me/us (short of legal slander, of course...).
But we have a right to get together as a group and bitch about their juvenile behavior, and to tell their advertisers that they're wasting their money on a low-level rag, run by a bunch of unprofessional children who think they're cool- a paper that might be out of business in a few years if it remains so poorly run.
All it would take would be a simple apology and admission that it was a bad call. I'll be interested to see Thursday if they have the fortitude to admit a stupid mistake. To my knowledge, nobody has gotten any return calls / emails.
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As someone who has run for office, I agree with Scott. I was slammed with a vicious personal attack at age 23.
Politics is a game -- it's football time in Tennessee. You work in the weight room, run sprints, get into condition -- then you run like heck to win.
To say you "offer yourself" for public service is like suiting up 11 skinny freshmen and putting them on the field against Bama. They're gonna get killed. -- s.
It is one thing to anticipate being "ridiculed, libeled, insulted, lied-about, cheated, or slandered" by one's opponent or their minions. Fortunately the majority of our local candidates haven't sunk to this level.
I would never expect a mass market newspaper to be so juvenile.
____________________________________
"Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse."
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