As they say, opinions are like buttholes … and elbows, and probably several other body parts. We all have ’em, we’re all entitled to ’em. But sometimes opinions make your eyes roll so far back into your head that you have to be careful they aren’t gonna get stuck back there, like our mommas warned us when we were kids. Such is the case with Saturday Down South‘s Chris Wright after Tennessee’s walk-off win over Wright State in the NCAA …
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a couple dozen times: Politics and hypocrisy are strange bedfellows. Any of us who toe ideological lines have some hypocrisy in us — regardless of who you are, …
This is a subject that came up in a Facebook discussion about the famous Ken Burns documentary, and I felt compelled to expand on my views a little bit — compelled because I was once one …
USA Today ranks the three worst jobs in America as 1.) Taxi Driver, 2.) Logger, and 3.) Newspaper Reporter, in that order. Police Officer doesn’t appear anywhere on the list of 25 Worst Jobs in America. …
This sort of put the troubles in the East Knoxville community around Austin-East High School into perspective for me. Last night, Scott High and Austin-East played a softball double-header at Caswell Park in East Knoxville. The …
As a newspaper editor and a journalist for more than 20 years, I’m highly critical of the press. I believe we owe it to not only our readers but perhaps more importantly our profession and the …
There’s nothing more embarrassing in journalism than being spectacularly wrong. Trust me, I know. I’ve been there, done that…maybe should’ve had a t-shirt made. A Chattanooga TV station is likely figuring that out today, after apparently …
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