Comments on: When Will Brad & Britt Stand Up?

By: tokinokie

tokinokie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:31:21 +0000

smells like phil zachary and bill whitley have been busy behind the scenes

By: Ged

Ged — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:27:24 +0000

Yeah, they kinda went off the rails this morning thanks to the snub by Joe Scarbarough. That said, parts were pretty funny, but you had to have context to understand I think.

By: Thomas Duke

Thomas Duke — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:19:10 +0000

I just turned on the show only to hear ranting about something concerning MSNBC. Please take either a deep breath or a pill! This is not entertaining or informative…

By: Joe Killian

Joe Killian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:07:16 +0000

I’m covering it on Saturday. We’ll have photo there, too.

I’ve already got a story about it up at the N&R site, which will be updated throughout the day.

With the noon “Tea Party” protest going on downtown it’s going to be protest week for me. Takes me back to my night cop reporting days…

By: Ged

Ged — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:35:28 +0000

Very well said Joe, I would expect no less from our local paper and I for one am very proud of the light you have shed on what Time Warner is doing. I suspect WXII has had a similar conversation with a TW rep over their news story coverage lately as well.

I have to agree that talk radio and local news agents have different mandates. So I think I’m slowly resigning myself to the fact that Brad & Britt will be no help in making people of the Triad aware of what’s going on. Once again, disappointing.

I wonder if local news agencies will cover the TW protest being staged for this Saturday on Spring Garden St. I also wonder how many people will be there. I guess we’ll see.

By: Joe Killian

Joe Killian — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:05:28 +0000

Time Warner advertises with the N&R and its publications as well and they’re certainly not happy with the way we’ve covered the story so far. Yesterday one of their reps told me she thought I was “missing the story” by continuing to talk to the customers affected, looking at how it may affect business, breaking down and examining the reasoning behind the switch, talking to government leaders about how they’ll react to it.

I asked what the story I was missing, in her estimation.

“Well, this is the way things are going,” she said. “You should be writing a trend story.”

But newspapers and talk radio don’t have the exact same mandate and every business is different. If I told one my editors I’d decided against writing about something because I was afraid of the advertising reaction I’d get bounced from the newsroom.

But then, our advertising base is crumbling and we haven’t figured out how to make money on the Internet yet, so I’m not saying this makes good business sense.

By: Britt Whitmire

Britt Whitmire — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:07:03 +0000

Just to clarify, neither of us has been told by management to avoid the topic. We have made that decision on our own.

By: NotMe

NotMe — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:11:41 +0000

Hee, hee, you said, “Britt plug.”