The newspaper

[RutherfordBHayes]

After MSU won the SEC West in 1998 the Clarksdale Press Register, ran a headline for their lead story that read, "Was Archie Manning College Football's Greatest Quarterback?"

I kid you not.

If I'm not mistaken, the paper at the time ran a few times a week, so it would have been the Monday after. The sports "editor" at the time was Bubba Burnham.

Now, I never really blamed Bubba. I'm sure he was a high school graduate with a B average in Senior English, he's probably about all the paper could afford. It was a third-rate publication. What do you do?

That was eighteen years ago. The newspaper business is dying. The 1998 Clarksdale Press Register, then, is the Clarion Ledger now.

Don't blame the burger drive-through when they mess up your order. It's a 17 year old kid that is failing 10th grade again. What do you expect?

The Clarksdale Press... I mean, the Clarion Ledger is that 17 year old burger flipper that can't pass Social Studies.

**EDIT... Correction, The Press Register story wasn't when MSU won the West in 1998. It was the next year, 1999, after MSU had started 8-0. The first time State/Ole Miss had been undefeated that far into the season since Pickett's Charge.

 

[aTotal360]

But the CL is the 17 year old burger flipper that has NO desire to pass social studies. It's not that they can't. I hate to even continue this dialog. I feel like they are reveling in the free pub. This weekend's paper was probably the most talked about edition in 10 years. And for all the wrong reasons.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

Certainly.
And I'm not expecting you to be happy about it. I'm not expecting you not to complain or make demands for restitution. I will take my burger right back inside and demand what I ordered, what I paid for.
But I have empathy because I know deep down inside that I am dealing with imbeciles. That will soon be replaced. By machines.

 

[HD6]

That's the thing that gets me. You can't find a MSU fan on the internet that claims to support the Ledger. Yet every week, there's a thread about what's in it. Either boycott it or don't complain about it.

 

[Chesusdog]

I don't buy it, I don't read it and I won't click it when linked here. Let it rot.

 

[coach66]

I cancelled when Hugh Freeze invented the internet or was that Al Gore?

**

 

[bdfan09]

Interesting RBH. The Press Register is my hometown paper. Bubba is a huge UM homer, though.

 

[411dawg]

This is a very good description of the CL. The paper is run on a shoe string budget with the cheapest, inexperienced help they can get. They got rid of all of the veteran reporters years ago. I haven't received a hard copy of the paper in 5 years. I am by no means an English major, but the punctuation and grammatical errors would turn your stomach. I didn't want to keep paying for such junk not to mention the content had been cut to a third.

 

[121Josey]

That's the thing that gets me. You can't find a MSU fan on the internet that claims to support the Ledger. Yet every week, there's a thread about what's in it. Either boycott it or don't complain about it.

How are you using "support"? There are State fans (on the internet) that still have subscriptions to the CL to write and deliver to their doorstep whatever they please. If the CL wants "support" a la click, then it can start publishing articles that people want to read or keep alienating potential readers.

Some people would like to see the CL be a reputable news source, as wishful thinking as it may be. Only social pushback will change that.

ETA: And people complain about RPI although they claim to understand it.

 

[RutherfordBHayes]

Calling Bubba Burnham an "Ole Miss homer" is akin to calling the Mariana Trench "deep".
But, yes, he is.