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The Scene’s just Metromix with a thesaurus and a couple of opinionators yelling “teabagger” and “racists” every other sentence. Somewhere in the middle a sales department squeezes in some phone porn and tugjobs, er *ahem* I mean Licensed Massage Therapists.

We’re fair to everybody Donna despite what one-sided things people tend to selectively hear.

I love newspapers, or did, and have always found the Nashville Scene a disappointment and waste of time. For one thing, they don’t practice actual journalism there, though a couple of the reporters make a stab at it now and then. Atlanta, where I lived for a good while, has much better and more interesting alternative papers.

I don’t live in the Nashville area and, except for the Post Politics blog, I don’t read anything in that “set” on a regular basis, though I tried to keep up with The City Paper when Clint Brewer was there, simply because, though he took one or more City editorial stands opposite my own positions, Clint was fair in publishing my viewpoint when he as at the Lebanon paper. He behaved like an actual journalist, so I think he was/is one. That goes a long way in any sense of loyalty I feel for any publication: the sense that all viewpoints are sought, considered, fairly represented, respected. The Tennessean has earned only antipathy from me in that regard.

I do appreciate y’all’s putting up with me here. You’ve been fair to me though we disagree on some things.

In Ferrell’s apologia, he makes all sorts of claims about the benefits of white privilege and institutional racism. And that Cracker-Americans succeed only as a direct result of this yet he somehow doesn’t see the institutional bias of his own papers in promoting an acrid atmosphere for discourse which existed before him (not so coincidentally by the same people who now run The City Paper and work for him), through Garrigan (former Scene editor who now also writes for The City Paper and works for him), the short-lived Pete Kotz error where even the paper declined from it’s already low standards, and now he’s taken back over.

Is there some other white male I’m supposed to blame here? Preferably the (ahem) rightwing Republicans who run The Tennessean? All the people who have made this rag what it is are sitting at the table today.

We won’t bring up Matt Pulle and his unique choice of character witness to champion that Puryear nomination last year.

These people love to criticize everybody outside Bolshevik Triangle of Germantown, Five Points and Hillsboro Village as backwater hicks with every breath they take but if there was ever any evidence of incest its the relationship they have with each other on the media and the message in this city.