This is what society has been reduced to: commentary about the mind blowing earthquake that was felt in Louisville and other areas of the state posted on YouTube.

The end is nigh, people! The end timers are right. Yer all gonna die. Just check WHAS11’s website for details. They even claim […]

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Melanie Kahn is the new reporter at WHAS. She’s got great credentials, and a quality highlight reel. You can see it here. She’s going to be a great addition to the city, replacing Emily Zander and her irritating screech of a voice. Melanie comes to WHAS from WSJV-TV in South Bend, the same Fox […]

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Rick wrote about it last week in LEO.
Now the Courier-Journal’s new look is live and I think it sucks. Drab colors, doesn’t at all feel like a newspaper, difficult to find breaking news as it’s all subdued under a pastel “LATEST HEADLINES” section - and speaking of headlines, only the headlines of stories (the […]

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I don’t get it.
But C.D. Kaplan is doing an odd, weekly video that’s being distributed only on YouTube. It just started a couple of weeks ago, and the Culture Maven told me he’s thrilled to actually get paid to do a regular Andy Rooney rant.
So who’s paying for it? Don Blackburn, owner of the CityBlock […]

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Haha so, funny story, we need to hire a creative and capable advertising executive to grow our media sales team.
Could that be you? Would you relish the opportunity to work with some very sexy and powerful bloggers and politico/media types?
We’re obviously a flourishing media operation with trillions of dedicated readers per day so it’ll […]

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Happy Valentine’s Day, Sweetie.
Now that’s a stretch: The latest “Only on Fox” story uncovered the fact that eight rubber gloves were left behind at crime scenes in Louisville. Really. Fox’s Julie Tam actually made a story out of this fact, going so far as to interview a city official, Kerri Richardson, about the supposed “danger” […]

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Thousands upon thousands of people have closely followed an incident involving WHAS11 and Page One/The ‘Ville Voice over alleged copyright infringement. (Yes, we’re surprised by the sheer numbers.) On October 25th someone at WHAS11 wrongly filed a complaint with YouTube which resulted in the removal of video excerpts our media operation was using […]

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There are over 2,000 WHAS11 videos on YouTube and more than 45,000 Google results for “WHAS11 video.” Surprising, isn’t it? If so much of that station’s footage is allowed to virally spread across the internet, why on earth would anyone at that station single us out for a mere ten video clips? […]

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Four days ago, WHAS11-TV (”WHAS11 News”) filed a complaint with YouTube regarding the posting of video comparing, contrasting, discussing and criticizing reports and incidents from around Kentucky. At 7:10 P.M. that evening we received notice that YouTube removed our content.
We believe our use of WHAS11’s video falls under the “Fair Use” doctrine. The […]

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Last month, the New York Times pulled the plug on its silly online subscription program, Times Select. Two years ago, the Times decided to start charging folks $49.95 a year for access to some of its most popular sections of the newspaper, such as my favorite columnist, Maureen Dowd. The experiment attracted 227,000 subscribers and […]

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Frosty Treatment: Don’t let this one go under the radar — last week Sen. Mitch McConnell’s office sent an e-mail accelerating the GOP’s campaign to slime Graeme Frost, a 12-year-old whose story illustrates why the S-CHIP bill that Mitch opposes is a good thing. The New York Times adds to the furor exposed […]

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Catching On: In Lexington, the Herald-Leader’s Pol Watchers political blog is by far the state’s most popular. In just a year, the site has generated the following: 1,374 posts, 11,587 comments, 540,210 visits and 949,690 page views. Here at Full Signal, we’re just behind those numbers, but we’re encouraged by the success of the site. […]

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* I know how to save the city about $1 million. That’s the amount being paid by Greater Louisville Inc., Louisville Metro Government and the Convention and Visitors Bureau on its widely-panned branding campaign. Just send the latest issue of LEO to all those cities with traffic, crime and employment problems. One look at the […]

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I’ve been working on a new project for a while now — in fact, it goes back to the start of this blog more than a year ago.  It’s called PageOneKentucky — and it’s just what it sounds like. It’s a Web project designed to call attention to stories that the mainstream media either misses […]

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News that LEO, the city’s alternative weekly, is pulling the plug on its blogging experiment is disheartening. In a final post dated July 18, Stephen George blamed “other priorities” for the demise of the entertaining blog, in which George almost singlehandedly broke stories and provided some entertaining prose. Add in the efforts of editor Cary […]

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LEO’s Cary Stemle explains the latest blow to morale at the Courier-Journal: the layoffs of a dozen advertising staffers.
Given the environment at newspapers these days, it’s almost a relief when a layoff involves less than two percent of the total staff. And none of those cut were in the editorial department.  Gannett’s Arizona Republic laid […]

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There was no bigger story in town over the weekend than the baseball action going on at Jim Patterson Stadium. Though 4,000 people packed the stands for three straight glorious days, the national audience spotlight was on the innovative ways fans found to watch — from rooftops, an outfield berm, the top of the […]

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For the last four months, I spent my life working to get Bruce Lunsford elected as governor of Kentucky. It didn’t work out, but I’m richer for the experience, and have no regrets. I got a quick, fire-in-the-frying-pan education on the way political campaigns work, and met a lot of great people. I got to […]

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www.LunsfordStumbo2007.com Already Receiving Praise from BlogsDemocratic Candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor Bruce Lunsford and Greg Stumbo today launched their Campaign for Change website one day before the kick-off of their campaign in Prestonsburg.
The website address is:
www.lunsfordstumbo2007.com
This new website continues to build on the excitement and energy of the past weeks and will serve as […]

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If you didn’t catch it, LEO’s renowned “Culture Maven” — C.D. Kaplan — will no longer grace the pages of LEO. Kaplan’s last regular column appeared last week, and Kaplan used it to explain his new role at the alternative weekly, where he’s held forth on various local topics for at least a decade.
Kaplan’s colorful […]

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