Comments on: Opinion: Local News Coverage Needs “Competitive Collegiality”

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 12:53:49 +0000

You all are missing the point. What is the news for? Its to inform people. Its not to push political agendas. Its not to villanize all conservatives, because most all newspapers and journalists currently suffer from liberal bias. Most people at this point know the media is biased and want to have nothing to do with it.

I don’t see any future for ‘journalism’ in this country until this generation of journalist vipers has passed away. Right now…I don’t even trust the weather reports.

Frankly, after 4 years of insulting conservatives and working for communism… I don’t ever see reading a newspaper again. And that’s the world you ‘journalists’ have made.

By: Pam

Pam — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 15:21:03 +0000

Dear Steve, I see that your opinion piece – which I read today (12/2/2020) was published in February. I read the 8 comments and agree with each for the most part. I attended the panel discussion by the Village Square which I found very biased favoring MSM. It turned me off because it was clear there was no place for differing opinions (although they advertise they support them). After paying $75 to attend, I decided to never attend another.
The one good outcome, was that I discovered Tallahassee reports! I then dropped my subscription to the Democrat.
Since February we have had the Covid-19 pandemic, an election, and multiple levels of political corruption outed. There is little to no journalism left. It is very clear that news in our country is controlled by whatever your want to call it: Elitists, Big Tech, The Great Reset or whatever you call Billionaire Marxists.
The average citizen is getting more frustrated by the day as more of us swing over to the side of populism. Gone are Republicans versus Democrats, they are only place holder names. Gone are conservatives versus liberals – as liberals are squeezed out by progressive/socialist/Marxists. Even the leftist Democrats who tried to appease Antifa/BLM are finding that the anarchists don’t like them either (see Portland, Oregon mayor).
All I want is some HONEST reporting. Tell me what happened without a slant or point of view – I am smart enough to reach my own conclusions.
So I find Tallahassee Reports a breath of fresh air. Thank you for your work!

By: truthhurts

truthhurts — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 18:01:04 +0000

The problem is people in this country are now so divided that they do not want to hear or read news as it used to be. They read and watch either left of right wing pundits that are so bias it no longer resembles reporting. Mary Ellen Klas is as guilty as any of the newspaper reporters. Her bias is clear every time you read one of her articles. I used to read the Washington Post every day until a Post article stated that the USS Stark sailors who died were not heroes. And that Regan was using there deaths for political purposes. This was shortly after my enlistment was over having served on a FFG that was identical to the Stark. Slanted news in every form is nothing new. It has been going on for over 30 years. It is just getting worse every day. and that is true for both the left and the right.

By: TG Brown

TG Brown — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 23:15:12 +0000

Real [television] journalism died with Cronkite. Even though I’m sure our personal views were miles apart, you couldn’t tell that from his broadcasts. Nowadays, everyone is a pundit. I’m sure that has a lot to do with the audience and that you have a lot more than two or three channels to choose from so they have to catch your attention somehow. However, most news these days it’s hard to differ from an old Jerry Springer episode. TMZ “gotcha news” has become the norm. Instead of “that’s the way it is” we now have “that’s just how we want you to view it.”

By: Anon

Anon — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:23:32 +0000

Steve, every news outlet that allows comments on its site- something legacy media cannot do- will thrive, because We the People want more details and a voice- one of the reasons I think this site surpasses its competitors. And what the hell is up with all the dead bodies (FOUR) found in cars and in the woods in the past month in Tallahassee? No details. Also dead body found at Walmart in Forsyth (I-75) in same time period. No details from local news, only “no foul play”

By: Hope

Hope — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:12:56 +0000

Other news outlets and the Chamber of Commerce is aligned with the perpetrators which makes it very difficult to get the real truth out. It is bad… it is very bad and they have not even begun to touch on it.

To begin this process of cleaning up the filth is to do away with the usual suspects TV program, ban Yordon from writing columns in the Tallahassee Democrat, and shut down the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce junkets that are really PR events for politicians paid for by taxpayers.

Begin here and the fresh air will blow out the stench of the first level of corruption.

By: Rosemary N. Palmer

Rosemary N. Palmer — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:29:25 +0000

I think a partial solution is to robustly assist the college and high school newsrooms by offering internships and support to those in them to consider community wide news. There is no reason that students cannot write important articles about issues that find their way onto community digital news platforms. If there were a solid community outlet for it, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that there are many citizens willing to commit some of their time to research and report stories that would help us all.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 13:42:20 +0000

Steve, love the forum here. Moving forward, journalism must have an anonymous comment section. I often learn more details about a story from the comments. Crowdsourcing the news works because in the end, anyone from the Governor to little peons like myself can provide information here. Once here, it can be verified by others or tossed. And its all done for free, because some people just love the truth.
Addressing disinfo and misinfo is another topic, and as crowdsourcing the news becomes more prevalent, so do the (paid) disinfo agents. Twitter a great example.

By: TONY

TONY — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 12:17:44 +0000

REAL Journalism is dying fast. It USED to be “Get the News Out and get it RIGHT”. NOW, it’s just “Lets be the first one to Report what happens but spin it to what we want it to be”. If they don’t like what they are reporting on, they change it and inject THEIR Opinions into the article. News Papers MSNBC, CNN and the MSM are nothing more than the Fake Gossip Magazines you see at the Check Out Counter. Example Story: “Cadillac traveling East on Mahan Dr. Collides with Pick Up that ran the Red Light at Buck Lake Rd.”, now, if Trump was driving the Cadillac, the Story would read: Trump races thru Intersecting colliding with Pick Up Truck injuring two people in the Truck”.

By: News Maven

News Maven — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 08:21:29 +0000

The Fake Newsocrat has become what is now known as a “ghost nwwspaper.” Soon, it will be printing fewer copies than TR – it’s already under 15,000 daily.
Meanwhile:
Gannett-owned Palm Beach Post, Daily News newsrooms vote to unionize:
http://newsguild.org/mediaguild3/14726-2/
“The guild would join five other publications in Florida that have unionized since 2016, following successful efforts at The Ledger in Lakeland, the Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville and, most recently, the Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald, and would become the fourth Gannett-owned publication to unionize since October 2019.”
And JP is no longer a scribbler for the Fake Newsocrat. She got bumped up to an editor job with the Death Star, but remains here:
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2019/08/17/jennifer-portman-named-enterprise-editor-usa-today/1970738001/