Unfortunately Our Long Alabama Nightmare Continues – The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. — The so-called leaders of Alabama’s Republican party honestly remind me of the last Rebs at Gettysburg, still willing to charge up Big Roundtop hill one more time for “the cause” in the face of certain defeat…
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Tea Party Takeover of Alabama Public Television Reverses the Station’s Mission
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson Another hot week. Another Alabama summer wishing I were in the mountains, where at least the nights are cool. Another week of idiocy in the news and on Facebook. What is a real journalist to do under such conditions? Write a column trying to illuminate the situation after a…
Freedom of the Press is Not Free
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson It’s summertime in Alabama now. No matter what the official calendar says. The mercury hit 91 here today. That was probably in the shade. We just got back from the local farmer’s market, where Alabama farmers show up every Thursday to sell their goods directly to the public. There…
Newhouse Papers in the South Gut Newsroom Staffs in Move to Online News
by Glynn Wilson The word trickled out from New Orleans on Tuesday like news from the killing fields that the Times-Picayune would cut half its newsroom staff effective Sept. 30. Two hundred will not have a job when one of the nation’s oldest daily newspapers becomes a daily no more, only publishing three days a…
May 24, 2012: The Day the Daily Newspapers Died
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson May 24, 2012 will be remembered as the day the daily newspapers died in the South. The Newhouse chain announced Thursday that the Times-Picayune in New Orleans is so broke it can only publish three days a week now, and the same holds true for the only major city…
There Goes That Liberal Media Again
The Birmingham News Used the Word Vagina in the Newspaper? The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson Rick Santorum needs to get his religious conservative butt down to Alabama right now and save us all from this run amok “liberal media.” That great bastion of liberal journalism, The Birmingham News, actually used the word “vagina” in…
Master of a Lost Art: Part Two Interview with Glynn Wilson
by Joan Brunwasser Welcome back for the second half of my interview with The Locust Fork News-Journal‘s editor and publisher, Glynn Wilson. So, Glynn, if, according to you, it takes a huge investment of time and energy to understand a story, that explains why the mainstream press has not done its job on many important…
What Will The Birmingham Noose Endorse Next?
Sarah Palin for President and the early release of Eric Rudolph? Under the Microscope by Glynn Wilson I’ve said it before and I will say it again here today. Sometimes I am profoundly embarrassed to be from Alabama. Today is one of those times. Why? Because the staff of my hometown newspaper continues to stick…
Artur Davis Wants Your Ideas?
If so, then why did he reject the number one idea proposed by the most citizens of Alabama, legalizing marijuana? If you haven’t visited our favorite Libertarian blogger in awhile, Loretta Nall, click here now! She’s exposing a major loophole in the campaign of Artur Davis who says he is running for governor of Alabama…
Editorial: Major Price Should Be Paid for Fish Kill
by Glynn Wilson Editor and Publisher If Regina Nummy, the director of Roebuck-Hawkins Park, has not already resigned her position — for her ignorant order telling Birmingham city workers to illegally excavate wetlands without a permit and to remove a dam on a Village Creek spring pool — she should be fired immediately. Glynn Wilson…
