Clarion Ledger update

[patdog]

If you want to e-mail executive editor Sam Hall, you'll get this auto reply:

I am out of the office until Tuesday, May 31, andwill be checking email only sporadically. <o></o>
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If you need to reach someone immediately, pleasecontact News Director Steven Ward at [email protected]or (601) 961-7075. You can also contact Executive Assistant Frances Mack at [email protected] or (601)961-7072.<o></o>
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I will answer email upon my return, but it may takeseveral days to catch up.<o></o>
<o> </o>
Thanks much.<o></o>
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SRH<o></o>
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SAM R. HALL |EXECUTIVE EDITOR<o></o>
The Clarion-Ledger | ClarionLedger.com | MississippiMedia<o></o>
(601) 961-7163 | [email protected]<o></o>
www.clarionledger.com<o></o>
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[tatedog]

Amateur. Hour.

 

[patdog]

Yep. Their customer service phone line is "experiencing a high call volume" and I've been waiting close to 10 minutes for an agent to join my chat session.

 

[LandArchDawg]

Nashville is a busy town.

 

[tatedog]

I have a feeling that email server is crashing harder than [email protected]

 

[fishwater99]

Just blow him up on twitter. He was responding last night to everyone.

 

[coach66]

Somebody's gonna pay for screwing up Sam's vacation.

nm

 

[patdog]

That would require setting up a Twitter account.

BTW, you can't cancel your subscription via chat. You have to call 877-850-5343. If you can get through their "high call volume."

 

[Ishmael]

Just blow him up on twitter. He was responding last night to everyone.

Not everyone. He didn't respond to the question of whether anyone in MS saw the final product before it was printed.

 

[patdog]

Somebody's gonna pay for screwing up Sam's vacation.

Yep. When the executive editor has to publicly apologize for something that happened in sports/Nashville, you can bet somebody's ******* is getting reamed out.

 

[BiscuitEater]

I am out of the office until Tuesday, May 31, and will be checking email only sporadically.

Vacation has been planned for months and months**

 

[tatedog]

Destin, no doubt.

 

[dawgstudent]

Maybe he knows Sandman

 

[bulldogbaja]

Guys,
I have more than a feeling that this week you will see increased coverage of MSU across the board. Trust me. Fortunately at least someone at Gannett or the CL has financial sense.

When it does happen, I encourage you to respond with the same level of enthusiasm. Let them know that we appreciate it and we might consider actually supporting their newspaper. Money talks.

Also, consider the possibility that the "bias" actually comes from the Nashville office. Ole miss does graduate a lot of students with journalism degrees...

 

[TBone.sixpack]

I prefer they just fold.

 

[patdog]

Maybe they will have more and better coverage of MSU this week. But I won't see it.

 

[drt7891]

The Content comes from the Jackson office. The Nashville office does design and layout of the paper, not the content itself.

I don't think it's bias, so much as pure incompetence and laziness from the sports editor (lookin at you, Hugh K.).

However, I doubt very seriously you see that headline if the roles were reversed between us an OM. I guess that does fit the formal definition of bias.

 

[HardyStreetAlumniClub]

I prefer they just fold.

They are not going to fold. Believe it or not, there is a market for a statewide newspaper in Mississippi. The best thing we can do is get them on our side and keep them there.

 

[TBone.sixpack]

I know they aren't going to fold. A guy can wish though*

 

[tired]

I've gotten 3 responses from him. We're buds now. You want me to say something to him or ask him something?

 

[bulldognation]

Thing is they used to be a statewide paper about 30 years ago. Then something went haywire. I remember my neighbors dad complaining about flipping through 4 pages full of ads to get to an article and lo and behold it was about damn Louisiana.

 

[patdog]

One of the reasons I kept subscribing until today was to get high school scores. But that's gone to **** in the last couple years. Max preps is a much better source.

 

[MaroonNation]

You can ask him why Bonner was in Jackson covering Tebow at the Clarion Ledger function instead of having him in 17'ing Starkville that same day(Saturday) to cover our historic SEC Championship game.

 

[KurtRambis4]

It appears the school isn't

as mad as we are....the baseball team's Twitter account just retweeted a Bonner article.

 

[MaroonNation]

I really wish Scott would just pull their credentials at this point.

 

[HD6]

Bonner missed the Thursday game. He was there Saturday.

 

[drt7891]

i don't agree. That'd be totally wrong of us to do, in my opinion. Bonner has done a great job covering the MSU beat and it'd be totally wrong of us to make him a pawn in this over a ****** headline.

Cancel your subscription, that's perfectly ok. But our athletic dept would be totally in the wrong pulling Bonners credentials when he had zero to do with that headline (yes, even when his boss is totally incompetent).

 

[aTotal360]

Agreed. Nothing really to gain from that. Just need to keep hammering them on social media. CL isn't going to change until they're broke.