Breaking News from the HA

[2002usmgrad]

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050704/NEWS01/50703007

Sorry, this just made me laugh. How in depth.

[aaron]

I don't know why we need a "PM extra" story to tell us that.

[Lylabean]

Holidays are terrible for real news stories...At WDAM we'd always have the standard fireworks safety story as well as the everyone is out having a good time at Paul B. Johnson and other swimming holes.

Lynn

[King Kong]

Ha! Now that is funny!

[Tully Mars]

That took almost as much intelligence and imagination as coming up with this headline: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050704/NEWS01/50703006

[ynotme297]

can`t belive they wasted paper on that one.:smt118

[reality]

LOL! Wow, those are pathetic! Why am I not surprised though? :)

[WeeOne2008]

can`t belive they wasted paper on that one.:smt118

They didn't, you moron. It's on the internet; hence, no paper.

Genius.

[reality]

WeeOne I hope you were being facetious. :smt119

[Tully Mars]

They didn't, you moron. It's on the internet; hence, no paper.

Genius.

Wow, I can see that you are going to make friends here fast. Insulting someone on your first post...smooth!:smt038

[reality]

hehe Tully, judging from his/her name, I would venture to say he/she isn't here to make friends. :smt102

[WeeOne2008]

Reality (or, as I shall call you from now on, Falsehood): No, I'm not being facetious. Open the H.A. tomorrow morning and show me where they run that one-sentence blurb. BTW, do you actually read the H.A., or are you just one of these bandwagon hacks? Just curious.

Tully: Consume fecal matter and cease life functions, sweetheart.

[aaron]

definitely an interesting way to start off WeeOne.

[Tully Mars]

Reality (or, as I shall call you from now on, Falsehood): No, I'm not being facetious. Open the H.A. tomorrow morning and show me where they run that one-sentence blurb. BTW, do you actually read the H.A., or are you just one of these bandwagon hacks? Just curious.

Tully: Consume fecal matter and cease life functions, sweetheart.

Easy now, I wouldn't want you to get a paper cut from having to look up all of those big words.

[reality]

LOL Tully, guess you're going to have to change your signature back to what it previously stated. :)

[WeeOne2008]

aaron, how does one such as myself become an administrator such as yourself? I've piddled and paddled among these common riff-raff for far too long already, and I'm now prepared to assume greater responsibilities and honors.

:smt071: :cry:

[Tully Mars]

LOL Tully, guess you're going to have to change your signature back to what it previously stated. :)

Nah, I wouldn't go through the trouble for that thing.

[Tully Mars]

aaron, how does one such as myself become an administrator such as yourself? I've piddled and paddled among these common riff-raff for far too long already, and I'm now prepared to assume greater responsibilities and honors.

:smt071: :cry:

Thanks for the evening entertainment. That has got to be the funniest thing I have read on here in weeks.:smt043 :smt044

[aaron]

aaron, how does one such as myself become an administrator such as yourself? I've piddled and paddled among these common riff-raff for far too long already, and I'm now prepared to assume greater responsibilities and honors.

:smt071: :cry:

Actually, positions like that will probably be filled by an election process by the members here.

[WeeOne2008]

So did anyone find that blurb in the American this morning? Or do any of you dolts even read the American?

[lamarrebel]

Rugrat, If you want respect, you need to show some. Most of us appear to be well read on the issues, and a couple on here I know personally and can vouch for. Maybe someone on here is a dolt, but I tend to believe the pot may be calling the kettle black in this instance.

[WeeOne2008]

Yeah, you're very well read on the issues because you don't understand the difference between a mid-day internet update on a newspaper's Web site and an article that actually gets published in the newspaper.

My guess is that most of you don't read the American in the first place. Heck, if this weren't a message board, the intelligence you display would lead me to believe most of you don't read at all.

Speaking of the pot and kettle, you'll have to excuse me now. I have to go cook breakfast for your girlfriend. BOOYAAAAAH

:autogun:

[JB2379]

weeone, please grow up and smile. Thinks will get better for you. Okay?

[lamarrebel]

Well, first of all, it's a wife, not a girlfriend, and she just called to say she's cooked for me.

The American's afternoon online updates are very weak most of the time, I agree entirely. But, comparatively speaking to other cities Hattiesburg's size, the American in general is weak. That's why I only sometimes get it out of the rack, and mostly read it online.

[WeeOne2008]

Tell your wife she missed a ribeye and poached eggs.

As for the American somehow being sub-par for cities the size of Hattiesburg...uh, what? Are you out of your mind? Have you read the Meridian Star or the Sun Herald lately? The American is easily one of the top three dailies in the state, and it may be the second-best (the Clarion-Ledger being first, for obvious reasons).

I'm sure they pissed you off last year when they didn't come sprinting with camera in hand when your men's church group had a pancake breakfast or something lame like that. Get with the program, sweetheart.

[JB2379]

Hey folks, let's all do Wweeone a big favor and just ignore his personal attacks. It's obvious that one needs a certain level of maturity to participate on a board like this, and Weeone is severly lacking in that department. After all, look at the screen name.
And Weeone, once again, things are going to get a little better for you. Okay?

[WeeOne2008]

Things will get better when you swallow a frisbee and keel over, you dolt.

[ynotme297]

from the sound of his posts, i think the name fits.

[King Kong]

Things will get better when you swallow a frisbee and keel over, you dolt.

This is how staff writers of The Hattiesburg American spend their day. No wonder way the paper suxs.

The only thing The Hattiesburg American is good for is lining my cage. :monkey:

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

I can't believe Rugrat compared the HA to a "real" big newspaper. HAHAHAHAH

:faintthud

Please, the Hattiesburg Bird Cage liner better than the Sun Herald? Give me a break! They get scooped by WDAM, and you guys know how bad that is!

[lamarrebel]

Often times, the Hattiesburg American gets scooped by The Indpendent. Getting whipped by a weekly paper, I would think is even worse.

While I'll put the Hattiesburg American ahead of Meridian Star, it is worlds behind the Sun Herald and well behind the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal in quality of news coverage.

[SoMissTV]

I suppose what bothers me the most about the HA is the lack of information available within the paper on the local level. Granted, there's not a lot that goes on here, but there's much that could be printed in the paper. What about City Council and School Board Agendas? How about some form of investigative journalism? Maybe a consumer-oriented column that allows community citizens to write in about problems in the city (cracked sidewalk, overgrown lots), and then takes the concern to the appropriate official and follows up on the concern until it is fixed (such as the What's Your Problem? column in the Birmingham News). What else, MyHattiesburg readers? What should be added to the HA to make it a more desirable paper?

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

Try removing the Associated Press wire from their newsroom so they have to write. We don't need the HA providing national news ... we have CNN, the Internet, or other sources for that. As far as state news, maybe send one of their reporters (since not much is going on here) to Jackson to be a capital reporter. Or, they can get plenty of Jackson or state stories from their Mama paper, the Clarion-Ledger.

[noway]

News Stories... Whats going on around Hattiesburg.. Any changes in department heads with the city of Hattiesburg.

[wilebill]

I'd like to see more local sports coverage. Just about every kid in town plays some sport, yet there's hardly any scores given for any of them. They seem to cover USM pretty well, but even high school scores are rarely given in a timely manner.

[WeeOne2008]

Often times, the Hattiesburg American gets scooped by The Indpendent. Getting whipped by a weekly paper, I would think is even worse.

The only thing that The Independent scoops is soft serve ice cream. That fish wrap uses more unnamed sources than any paper I've ever seen. Not to mention that they oftentimes just outright fabricate stories (i.e. Amy Tuck jumping back to the Democratic Party...yeah, her and George W. Bush both). If that qualifies as credible journalism in your book, then you go ahead and keep reading.

And I don't know when the last time was that you sweethearts read the Sun Herald, but it's horrible nowadays. It used to be a really good paper, but those days are long gone.

:smt070 (your theory here)

[SoMissTV]

WeeOne2008, what would you suggest the Hattiesburg American add to their coverage in order to become a better paper? I know you believe that they are a high-class paper, but surely you agree that there is always room for improvement. So, what would you like to see added?

[WeeOne2008]

Turn over the editorial page to me.

[SoMissTV]

Okay, how about something realistic?

[wilebill]

Okay, how about something realistic?

He's already built a bad reputation here, what other qualifications are needed? ;)

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

I'd rather read fish wrap then something covered in chicken :flush:

[CHinsider]

I'd rather read fish wrap then something covered in chicken :flush:

I believe that would be monkey :flush: after King Kong gets done with it.

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

BREAKING NEWS
There is a hurricane a-comin

Read about it Friday in the HA

[noway]

i was wondering if the rain is ever going to get here. the radar shows it at the pearl river lamr county line. looks close to land fall :grin:

sorry off topic back to the HA

[Fire Extinguisher]

One wonders who called them and told them that folks were having parties on the 4th?

[Tully Mars]

I did as the weeone suggested and picked up a copy of the HA yesterday. Much to my suprise (not!) it contained even less than what was promised in the PM update.

There were about 1 to 1.5 pages of local news, several pages of AP wire stuff, two Health pages (geez, if I need health info I will either google it or ask my Dr. directly), a couple of local sports stories, a whole bunch of national sports stories (again AP stuff), the funnies, the horiscope, and the classifieds. Other than that...pretty much nada, zip, nothing.

Even the few local stories were very shallow with little or no real in-depth reporting, or even good writing for that matter.

[WeeOne2008]

I did as the weeone suggested and picked up a copy of the HA yesterday. Much to my suprise (not!) it contained even less than what was promised in the PM update.

There were about 1 to 1.5 pages of local news, several pages of AP wire stuff, two Health pages (geez, if I need health info I will either google it or ask my Dr. directly), a couple of local sports stories, a whole bunch of national sports stories (again AP stuff), the funnies, the horiscope, and the classifieds. Other than that...pretty much nada, zip, nothing.

Even the few local stories were very shallow with little or no real in-depth reporting, or even good writing for that matter.

Yeah, and you're a regular William Faulkner, slappy. Come on -- if you're such a newspaper critic, then let's hear something a little more specific than that.

"Uh, the writing was bad." How was it bad?

"Uh, it was shallow." How was it shallow?

"Uh, it wasn't in-depth." How wasn't it in-depth? What questions were you left with?

It's easy to throw around these lines that you pick up listening to Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. Doing your own thinking is quite another matter.

But hey, you keep drinking that Kool-Aid, pal.

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

BREAKING NEWS

A tree branch fell in Hattiesburg. The HA promises a by-line typed by this evening, and hopefully a story to follow Sunday or Monday once WDAM gets the information.

[Tully Mars]

Yeah, and you're a regular William Faulkner
Yea, and I don't make my living writing news either. But then again it seems that neither do the folks who do the writing for the HA.


"Uh, the writing was bad." How was it bad?

"Uh, it was shallow." How was it shallow?

"Uh, it wasn't in-depth." How wasn't it in-depth? What questions were you left with?


You know little man, I really don't have to explain or justify my opinions to you. I have yet to see you make even the smallest of positive contributions to any discussion taking place here. Look at your reputation points, apparently I am not the only one with that sentiment.

[CHinsider]

Maybe if they would actually get out of their brick fort and walk down the street they might get some news.

[itzme]

I love the HA - I use the coupons in each Sunday's paper at least they are current! Is it me or does anyone notice that papers initials (HA HA HA HA HA HA) I guess they know they are a joke!

[WeeOne2008]

You know little man, I really don't have to explain or justify my opinions to you. I have yet to see you make even the smallest of positive contributions to any discussion taking place here. Look at your reputation points, apparently I am not the only one with that sentiment.

OK, so basically what you're saying is that you have no reason for thinking poorly of the HA. That's what I thought.

That sounds like something a 3-year-old would say..."I don't have to tell you! Waaah!" Moron.

:smt070 (insert your credibility here)

[Sir Mickey Mouse]

OK, so basically what you're saying is that you have no reason for thinking poorly of the HA. That's what I thought.

That sounds like something a 3-year-old would say..."I don't have to tell you! Waaah!" Moron.

:smt070 (insert your credibility here)


HAHAH

YOU haven't provided any pro for the HA, either... THat's like saying "My dog's bigger than your dog, my dog's bigger than yours... "

[Tully Mars]

That sounds like something a 3-year-old would say..."I don't have to tell you! Waaah!" Moron.

This is from one who has certainly exhibited the height of maturity.:smt119 :tongue:

[King Kong]

OK, so basically what you're saying is that you have no reason for thinking poorly of the HA. That's what I thought.

That sounds like something a 3-year-old would say..."I don't have to tell you! Waaah!" Moron.

:smt070 (insert your credibility here)


Sounds like WeeOne has been eating snacks out of his diaper again.

[bartspoon]

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But hey, you keep drinking that Kool-Aid, pal.[/QUOTE]

"drinking Kool-Aid" where have i heard that before?

[reality]

Hey Bartspoon...haven't seen you in a while. :)