Mon
Mar 31 2008
09:34 am
By: Sam
I have been reading the Halls Shopper news for 37 years now. Before the internet,the Shopper was and is a good reliable source of local news. One of the good things about living in Knoxville is having the Halls Shopper each week.
It appears as if Sandra stepped on a few toes with last week opinion piece. It appears three individuals took issue with it being on the front page.
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only recently available in West Knox
I was so happy to finally get the Shopper in my KNS on Monday's. I,too, was confused about the connection between KNS and the Shopper, but realized these were opinions - and, right, the best source for local news before the internet. I was blind but now I see. Thanks to the, how do you call it, the bully tabloid?
Wow. Ragsdale tries again to
Wow. Ragsdale tries again to create an enemies list. You would have thought he learned something with the Tyler Harber episode. Apparently not. The only question is whether Ragsdale will call Dwight Van de Vate a "troubled young man"?
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Front Page, Back Page, Every Page...
...Doesn't matter. I will read Sandra, Betty and Larry. To me their opinion is news. Thank goodness for the Shopper News.
Shopper
Not me...but to each his own which is the blessing we have here. I've never read anything (I don't think) that is so biased...doesn't present facts but seems to be a witch hunt on whatever the topic of the day is. But again, that's just me. Unfortunately, we now have that paper FORCED on us in West Knox. We canceled our KNS due to it but I doubt anyone cares. Publications of that sort (which are very opinionated/biased...again, my opinion) should be something people can pick up on their own (like Metro Pulse) and not have forced on us. I've had half a mind to save ours up and throw them in the McElroy's driveway but just decided to give it up and cancel. Oh well.
How is it "forced" on you?
How is it "forced" on you? Can't you just toss it in the recycle bin?
Pro-Choice
Randy,
You're being pro-choice! "I can CHOOSE to throw this away" is too great a choice for many. I think it's a lot like the ads that come in the KNS. Are they "FORCED" on helpless little ol' me? Or can I CHOOSE to throw them away? The whole arguemnet is flawed.
Oh ... and one more thing: Does this or does this not sound a lot like a certain B. Hornback's typical whine when refering to the Halls News Shopper?
Take Care, Be Good and don't play in the street!
SteveMule
Choice, choice?
I like the Shopper so well, if they did not bring (force) it to me, I would drive to the office to pick one up.
I was informed
that the infamous Steve Mule was making an accusation that I had posted something on this here forum. For the record, the comment post that you the Steve Mule accuses me of posting, I didn't post.
So sorry to disappoint you, Stephen. I rarely come to this forum anymore, only when when someone tells me there is something I should see, like false accusations.
Heck, I figured by now ole' Randy would have given up like he did with South Knox Bubba. I heard he got scared away from that other forum, a few years ago.
I was informed
that the infamous Steve Mule was making an accusation that I had posted something on this here forum. For the record, the comment post that you the Steve Mule accuses me of posting, I didn't post.
So sorry to disappoint you, Stephen. I rarely come to this forum anymore, only when when someone tells me there is something I should see, like false accusations.
Heck, I figured by now ole' Randy would have given up like he did with South Knox Bubba. I heard he got scared away from that other forum, a few years ago.
Brian Hornback (I left my name off the earlier comment post)
So nice you have to say it twice?
Yo, Brian--
You could've just edited your name onto your post .
Not that it was necessary -- your 'style' is distinctive.
Question not accusation
Brian,
I askeed a question based upon certain simularities of rhetoric. OK, it wasn't you. It was someone else.
Take Care, Be Good and don't play in the street!
SteveMule
Steve...
You've been hanging around Hornback too long! Be careful before you know it you will come down with a severe case of placingperiodswheretheydontbelongitis . I've heard that can be painful and a big shot of Funk and Wagnells in your gut is the only antidote.
"I askeed a question"
Actually Steve was using his Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright language.
Dear Sir, You Cur
My favorite read as a kid was Letters to Forbes editor Malcolm Sr. Every week somebody would go ballistic, ending with "Cancel my subscription!"
I aspire to be so opinionated (and right). -- s.
I always wondered if, when
I always wondered if, when the editor gets a letter that ends with "cancel my subscription," if he/she calls down to the circulation department to make it so.