Sypher Madness: Check out the WLKY interview with Karen Sypher to witness more of her public meltdown. Yesterday, she met with her attorney, Thomas Clay, and emerged from the meeting looking for a new lawyer. Does anybody really think the decision to split was “mutual”? Sample quote: “I know now I can begin with the beginning of the truth.” Expect whoever the new attorney is to ask for another delay in her trial. [WLKY]
Speaking of Crazy Women: No, I can’t help but watch Southern Belles every week. Last night, Shea was just bitchy in trying to keep Russ away from Hadley. Kellie proves she’s nuts making a thousand calls to her Chicago BF and getting a fertility test. Emily breaks it to her friends that her move to Vegas is permanent, and Julie tries babysitting as a way to get ready for motherhood.
Can It Get Thinner?: We’re sure they’ll find stuff to fill up the newspaper, but losing 44 more staff members (7%) is a severe blow to the C-J. At least they self-reported, with Arnold Garson making no promises about the future. And they allowed Lisa Pinkson to say good-bye on the Moms site. And David Hawpe is still there, for now. [C-J, Moms]
C-J Will Appeal to Jack: C-J attorney Jon Fleischaker says he’ll appeal the decision by JCPS to keep its evaluation of Sheldon Berman closed to the public. A previous attorney general already ruled that the meetings can’t be private, but now Jack Conway will get to weigh in. The closed-door evaluation on June 29 resulted in a glowing review, but we really want to know how much heat Shelly got. [Courier]
Williams Whining: So now David Williams, aka the man who killed the horse industry in Kentucky, is worried about the political price he’s going to have to pay for stopping slots. He tells WAVE people are making “outrageous and ridiculous” charges and everybody keeps talking about his gambling habit. [WAVE]
Out All Night for Homeless News: WHAS-TV’s Melanie Kahn pulled an interesting sweeps assignment. She spent the night, or a big part of it, with homeless guys in a tent city, talking their lifestyle. That would consist of standing in the street with a sign, getting enough money for beer, drugs and cigarettes, getting wasted, then doing it all again. [WHAS-TV]
14 responses so far ↓
1 john // Jul 10, 2009 at 10:13 am
That was an interesting assignment Melanie Kahn did. Seeing it certainly does not make me want to invite Wayside to warehouse the homeless in my neighborhood.
2 bill // Jul 10, 2009 at 10:25 am
When Churchill downs income was up 81 percent last year, and only 10 percent of the slot money was actually going to go to horse racing purses, it makes me wonder also. I love the slots, but the horse tracks should not get them only to themselves
3 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Jul 10, 2009 at 10:37 am
If one reads balanced articles on the slots subject, and there were certainly very few of those during the madness leading up to the vote, one would have to admit they were not needed nearly as much as the proponents were screaming about. I give props to the Lexington Herald-Leader for its courageous June 15 article.
And of course, even though it came late, WLKY’s John Boel also did a somewhat balanced report on the matter.
It’s nice to see a couple news organizations still having the will to tell the full story, but the ones remaining are so wound up into the horse tracks’ arse, er, propaganda, that I wonder how they will ever recover their credibility.
4 alreadydone // Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14 am
WLKY already did the living-with-the-homeless in tents thing a couple years ago, only they did it in the middle of winter. and then they just did a working homeless series as well.
5 BigD // Jul 10, 2009 at 11:19 am
I am surprised that the Ville Voice or any Liberal slanted individual would want David Hawpe gone from the CJ. From what I read from both David and here, your views and ideologies are similar.
You both love the new Golden Boy Jack. I’m quite sure you couldn’t have enjoyed seeing Anne Northrup run out any more than David. And the Democratic Party in this state will have lost one of it’s staunchest advocates and apologists.
Maybe he doesn’t look at blogging as “real” reporting, but in all fairness he has been at the CJ literally all his life, and has worked to get where he is from the bottom up. Certainly he has paid his dues to get where he is at and I can see where he might have a different perspective on what Journalism is than you or I.
I can understand the small thrill from a conservative point of view. But not sure where a liberal would find any sense of enjoyment from him moving on.
As a conservative I just don’t understand your take on the whole thing. Maybe he just has a nack for ticking everyone off.
6 citizen // Jul 10, 2009 at 11:35 am
David Hawpe is self serving. That is why he needs to go. He valued his YMCA buddy friendship with Daeschner over doing his job of informing the public ,which negatively affected the fate of many children who have suffered from being ill prepared by JCPS to live productive adult lives. But, hey, as long as the well connected have Manual and Male, all he had to do was “keep the Indians on the reservation”, right David? Ignore all that anonymous crap, right David?
7 Ann All // Jul 10, 2009 at 11:35 am
The op-ed pages were once where journalists went to get old and fat. Seems like a lot fewer of them will get that luxury in this economy. As w/ most large dailies, there are too many folks at the CJ whose salaries far outweigh their job responsibilities/contributions. W/ ad business eroding, it’s hard to argue for keeping those folks on the payroll. Bloggers (myself included) generally crank out some copy every day. For the most part, the content on the CJ’s blogs isn’t freshened nearly enough. Also, iit’s easy to see they are simply recycling the dwindling #s of local pieces written for print by using in multiple places.
8 jake // Jul 10, 2009 at 11:41 am
I love how you just continually make shit up. (Just went back and read all the comments you’ve left over the past several months)
Thanks for spinning with your typical “liberal” argument.
Disliking Republican bullshit does not make one a liberal. And being a liberal does not make one aligned with the worthless rag the Courier-Journal has become.
Anne Northup has one R. If you’re a conservative, as you proclaim, you’d know how to spell her name by now? (What is it with Republicans calling her NorthRup?)
The Kentucky Democratic Party gets no love from us. Nor do most Democrats.
Small thrill? Let’s get real. David Hawpe has been increasingly spreading horse shit the past couple years. Both on the editorial board and with reporters, who routinely catch heat from him when they step out of line and bother reporting actual facts that upset him.
Fact of the matter is we dislike the C-J because of its abysmal job performance. While “conservatives” dislike the C-J because the paper doesn’t swallow GOP talking points hook, line and sinker. (That mean librul media)
9 Steve Magruder (I, not D or R) // Jul 10, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Well, my three main beefs with Hawpe are:
1) The juvenile language he frequently uses against politicians or groups he disagrees with. If he is a liberal, he doesn’t do a very good job promoting the liberal brand. I am ashamed to be liberal every time I read his editorials.
2) His head is up Mayor Jer’s arse. Mayor Jer is no liberal — he is a corporate brown-noser and according to this newspaper, never does anything wrong.
3) He has maligned the 8664 campaign in a very unfair manner. This is due to #2 and that, in my _opinion_ (to avoid Hawpe’s litigious bent), he has allowed River Fields (ardently opposed to the East End Bridge that 8664 supports) to get a toehold on the editorial board. And this is all to the community’s detriment, but Hawpe doesn’t care about our community’s future as long as he can curry favor with the mayor and peculiar East End interests.
10 BigD // Jul 10, 2009 at 1:16 pm
So basically he has a nack for ticking both parties off at the same time. Right?
11 jake // Jul 10, 2009 at 1:42 pm
I think he has a knack for just being a total embarrassment.
Has nothing to do with politics. You don’t have to be a partisan to recognize it.
12 Cantinflas // Jul 10, 2009 at 1:47 pm
David Hawpe ‘working to get where he is from the bottom up,’ – all the way up to – and only to – the Courier-Journal? Doesn’t say much about his vaunted journalistic abilities now, does it?
That’s like saying Bette Baye had to leave NYC and come all the way to Louisville to succeed.
I thought if you “could make it there, you could make it anywhere.”
13 DB // Jul 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Does that mean thatdisliking Democrat bullshit dosen”t make one a conservative?
14 keatssycamore // Jul 10, 2009 at 4:52 pm
RE: Hawpe Out
Jake’s 2nd comment above is the answer to BigD’s question (not that I really think BigD is actually trying to understand the things he’s asking questions about):
“I think he has a knack for just being a total embarrassment.
Has nothing to do with politics. You don’t have to be a partisan to recognize it.”
Exactly.
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