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Post by zoe10850 on Jan 13, 2006 2:34:55 GMT -6
Does anyone ever read the Advertiser, then the Morning Advocate or Times Picayune ? It is amazing that a Community of our size tolerates such a pathetic and controlled newspaper
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Post by gissme on Jan 15, 2006 1:19:22 GMT -6
What is the basis of your opinion?
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Post by cwhite on Jan 15, 2006 23:56:52 GMT -6
I think the gist of it is that for a community touting education level and worldly wisdom, we allow for a pithy amount of diversity in our media. Even Baton Rouge, strongly tinted as it is, has a dozen or so dailies.
Kudos to the Independent for its efforts thus far.
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Post by theman on Jan 16, 2006 18:26:45 GMT -6
the advertiser does what it wants and has no competition in the newspaper market. if there was some good competition, their stories might not be as bias
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Post by cwhite on Jan 16, 2006 20:45:31 GMT -6
Or inane.
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Post by Vent on Jan 17, 2006 8:58:57 GMT -6
Some telemarketer call my home the other day asking if I'd like to subscribe to the Daily Advertiser.... my response was... Why should I... I don't have a bird!
After a brief, silence filled moment... they hung up. Do you uppose they figured out what I told them?
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Post by TBEAR on Jan 17, 2006 11:55:48 GMT -6
LOL, they probably didn't.
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Post by citizen on Jan 26, 2006 8:28:10 GMT -6
In my opinion, both daily papers "thrown" in Lafayette are nothing more than propagandists for the current administration. Neither seem to ever question anything this government proposes or does. No questions, just like reading a press release from the administration.
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Post by Guest on Jan 26, 2006 11:19:14 GMT -6
The print (and television) media in this town is an absolute joke. Reporters should be called regurgitators, they simply cough up what is handed out to them by LCG, the University, the Sheriff or whomever. Investigative journalism may be taught in the schools, but it is not practiced by the reporters Shame on them..
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Post by TBEAR on Jan 26, 2006 13:53:25 GMT -6
Whats really been idiotic lately is that they spend more time on the national news that on local news. They speak of national events right after the network news that just talked about the same thing.
I guess the reporters of today just dont know how to go out and get news.
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Post by percy on Feb 4, 2006 9:06:27 GMT -6
Amazing, absolutely amazing! I have lived in Louisiana all of my life and never knew that he state bird was the “white pelican.” That’s right. According to a photo caption in today’s (4 Feb 06) Daily Fishwrap, the Louisiana state bird is the white pelican. Such a simple thing, yet the Fishwrap manages to get it wrong. I guess fact checking is something they do not teach in journalism school anymore. People reading the papers or watching the news on television or listening to the news on the radio expect, but apparently do not demand, what they read, see or hear to be accurate and factually correct. That is why the media in Lafayette gets away with such sloppy work.
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Post by percy on Feb 4, 2006 9:24:50 GMT -6
And speaking of accurate and factually correct... The only reason that the Louisiana Public Service Commission is involved in the City of Lafayette’s Fiber To The Home initiative is because the City wants to get into the telephone business. Not cable, not internet, not fiber, but telephone. The PSC is not concerned with the method of delivery of the dial tone, only that it is being provided. The City could provide dial tone over glass fiber or a string and tin cans. Fiber has nothing to do with the PSC involvement yet it has never been reported as such.
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Post by Vent on Feb 10, 2006 7:32:15 GMT -6
I so wish that some of the people involved in the media here in Lafayette would read this discussion... it may open their normally closed eyes!
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Post by zoe10850 on Mar 20, 2006 20:17:07 GMT -6
The basis of my opinion regarding the pathetic state of the printed news. Hmmm, I notice on numerous occasions seeing an article days after same item appears in Picayune/Advocate. I notice a lack of investigative type reporting and commentary, for ex. when school superintendent states that he is not sure if he will honor a court order (hello, is that not contempt of court ?), good example to show our youth. The Sheriff refuses to give out public information, the paper says okay, and that is that. In other places, the papers go to the courts and order the info given or else; after all, public servants work for us. Why weren't charges filed against police officer who was working for River Ranch on city time with city unit ?Why no drug charges filed against those officers caught using/selling illegal steriods? where is J Durel's website that he listed his platform on ? What is being done with the 27% increase in sales tax revenue.
These are the type questions a normal newspaper might ask, but not ours.
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Post by citizen on Mar 21, 2006 6:31:03 GMT -6
Zoe, don't forget the little "bugging" incident. Was front page news for what? maybe a day? Isn't the FBI supposedly invloved in solving who listened in on the police department? Guess our local media isn't interested in learning anything new, just interested in covering the admins butt huh. Don't think I've never seen a daily paper so devoid of curiousity.
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Post by zoe10850 on Mar 21, 2006 12:28:37 GMT -6
the "gossip" is that the chief will resign soon; why would he be bugging his own secretary ? I cannot for the life of me figure why it is so difficult to find out who bugged the office, it is not like you can go to Wal Mart and buy bugging equipment, and then, who all has access to the chief's office ? You must be allowed access through a buzzer to even get into the building (and why are the city police so worried about public access to the building? it is not like they are not armed).
I am thinking we should emulate Iberia and dissolve our police force. Even if you do not like the Sheriff, at least he can be voted out of office if people really cared. With the civil service garbage, everything is swept under the rug, and it would appear that the rug is getting very bumpy. I think a lot of needed money would be freed up for better law enforcement service and maybe roads???
Where is the free press when you need them ? Maybe our chamber of commerce could do a non-partisan study, because the newspaper will not likely raise the issue.
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Post by citizen on Mar 22, 2006 6:15:39 GMT -6
Is funny you mentioned the chamber of horrors, It's mind boggling to me that our impotent chamber has endorsed and campaigned for every tax or fee increase proposed by this government . Heck this supposed "champion of free enterprise" even has endorsed LUS using public funds to compete against private companies.
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Post by zoe10850 on Mar 22, 2006 18:19:14 GMT -6
I was apalled that the Chamber would endorse the Government entering the cable/telephone market, and I wrote a letter to editor regarding that very fact. I think that the fiber issue is a typical spin issue; if you are opposed, you are anti-Lafayette, anti-progress, when in fact, I am simply anti-socialism.
Bellsouth is attempting to enter the cable television business in New Orleans and wants to lay fiber to do so. Their cost would be a part of the overhead, not a public bond issue. I did not see that article in the "Daily Disappointment", and do not expect to. It just shows that when a business can compete and make money, they will do so.
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Post by zoe10850 on Mar 29, 2006 11:06:23 GMT -6
And speaking of our council meetings, where is the free press in all of this ? I have seen an editorial implying that the council/mayor should cave in to the 10-12 people who are picketing the parish council and grant thje name change.
Why does the paper not ask mssrs. Williams, Benjamin if there are not more pressing and worthy problems for their attention; drug sales on streets, abandoned vehicles on blocks, run down houses w/trash in yard, kids on streets during day (why not in school ?), litter, shopping carts (stolen property) all over certain neighborhoods. I do not see anything being solved regardless of what one calls Willow Street. I suspect that commercial values would decline, as they have historically across the nation once name change occurs.
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Post by percy on Mar 30, 2006 6:48:06 GMT -6
Well, it looks like the police chief is near retirement, Guess he will be on administrative 'till he retires , just like some other officers (see above and in police pay). It is a shame that the media lets the Durel administration get away with sweeping this stuff under the rug as done with that officer who worked in River Ranch while on duty, the illegal drugs other officers were taking, etc, etc, etc. Guess the DA asleep on those issues too as all should have been brought to a Grand Jury.
It looks like the Dural Administration can do no wrong in the eyes of the media,
but that damned rug is getting mighty lumpy.
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