No one in the local TV market led a newscast with Ted Kennedy or Jim King or the nutjob who shot somebody down at Waterfront Park. Sorry, Coach, you can’t tell people what to watch, and they wouldn’t change the station from this soap opera if you begged them to. Which, I guess, you did. [...]

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You want to go with us Sunday to see Marty Pollio at the Comedy Caravan. We’ll get you in free. Sign up here. Pervert-ibility City: Shit. Go figure. Just because we like Google-ing “cunt” we get tagged with the “Obscene City” title. Better get the tough son of a bitch attorney general on it. [Silicon [...]

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by John LaFollette The ‘Ville Voice Correspondent Here’s a head scratcher.  A story about local iced coffee runs in the Courier that includes a quote from Lynn’s Paradise Café manager Ashley Brossart that doesn’t cast the restaurant in the rosiest of lights.  Shortly after the story is published, Brossart is fired from her post after [...]

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By now, we’re all used to having ourselves searched as we buy a ticket and enter sporting events. Authorities don’t want you bringing in your own alcohol or guns or laser pointers or strobe lights or other contraband. They’ve got plenty of rules about what you can do or not do as a fan at [...]

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Sexploits in Sports: Eric Crawford pointed out that the hottest video on the Internet over the weekend was a peephole shot that might have been sexy ESPN reporter Erin Andrews – naked. Which gave the paper on excuse to include a giant photo of her on his blog, while Crawford wrote about what an invasion [...]

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Awarding Behavior: LEO’s Phillip Bailey picked up a NATIONAL award from the organization of alt-weeklies. His stories on a West End resident, a controversial radio station decision and last year’s fiasco over the homophobic flyer that influenced a Metro Council election got the attention of the AAN. Worthy of re-reading. [AAN] Fixed Sidewalk: Our pals [...]

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Some of our favorite media types took home trophies at the 2009 Metro Journalism Awards presentation last night. We didn’t enter, because . . . A – We Didn’t Want to Pay the Entry Fee B – Our trophy shelf is full and there is no wall space. C -  If we won something, we [...]

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Yes, the VV HQ has the Metro Council budget hearings on while the work is going on. It’s a sacrifice we’re making for you. Edits at WFPL: Public radio’s WFPL has re-launched its news blog, a project headed up by Gabe Bullard. Let’s hope Gabe can keep up the ambitious production pace of its first [...]

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Other than The ‘Ville Voice, it would be our guess that the most-visited website by Courier-Journal staff members during the last few years has been Gannett Blog. But as of Oct. 1, there will be no new Gannett news and gossip at the site, operated by former C-J staff member Jim Hopkins. Hopkins, in announcing [...]

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It’s Tuesday, so be sure and tune in to the CW this morning at 10. You might win something… The Black Hat at the Arena Goes to:  Turns out that Jim Host and Mortenson Construction are none too happy with Wilhelm, the company responsible for the “human error” that caused the concrete collapse at the [...]

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