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The Jacksonville Daily News: ENCBlogs Can’t be Found

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The ENCblogs.com page (which was really just an empty page promising something soon) is down. It’s not a big deal, except that the sub-domains are also down.
That means Lindell Kay’s Off the Cuff blog, Timmi Toler’s It’s a Toler Thing blog, and Jennifer Hlad’s From Afghanistan blog are all down as well.
Having recently experienced [...]

The Jacksonville Daily News: Lindell Kay and His Readers Respond

Monday, June 9th, 2008

…to my post (If you haven’t seen the comments there, you should take the time).
But, more importantly, you should read Kay’s direct response on his blog. Because, in that post, Kay has proven that he’s completely missed the point of my criticism of the Jacksonville Daily News.
Lindell thinks I take pleasure in pointing out the [...]

The Jacksonville Daily News: Revealing a Sex Crime Victim’s Name is Bad

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

Lindell Kay at the Jacksonville Daily News made a terrible, terrible mistake: He identified the victim in a sex crime.
The online article has been edited and includes the following disclaimer:
Editor’s Note: Information that mistakenly appeared in the original version of this report has been removed.

But, unfortunately for the victim, there are (at least) tens-of-thousands [...]

Congratulations for Timmi Toler

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

She’s the new city editor at the Jacksonville Daily News.
It’s a tough job that has increased responsibilities that apparently smacked her on the first day.
That’s good. You know, trial by fire and all that.
Here’s to hoping that the quality of the Jacksonville Daily News will increase with Timmi’s new position.
Don’t let us down, Ms. [...]

Short Note to Lindell Kay: It’s a "car length"

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

…Not a “car link.”

Jacksonville, NC: Let’s Stay Out of the News for a While…

Monday, January 14th, 2008

In case you haven’t heard, Jacksonville, NC has been pretty big news lately.
It started with the public inquiry into a Marine Special Operations unit’s questionable shooting on civilians in Afghanistan and ended with the murder of Marine Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach.
I haven’t written about either because both of them are examples of serious failures [...]