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AS HE ASCENDED TO THE PRESIDENCY IN A HISTORIC TRANSITION TUESDAY,
BARACK OBAMA CHRONICLED THE NATION’S
CHALLENGES, CALLING UPON ALL AMERICANS
TO JOIN HIM IN BUILDING A BETTER FUTURE.
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WASHINGTON — Before a jubilant crowd
of more than a million, Barack Hussein
Obama claimed his place in history as
America’s first black president, summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope
against the “gathering clouds and raging
storms” of war and economic woe.
On an extraordinary day in the life of
America, people of all colors and ages
waited for hours Tuesday in frigid temperatures to witness a young black man
with a foreign-sounding name take command of a nation founded by slaveholders. It was a scene watched in fascination
by many millions — perhaps billions —
around the world.
“We gather because we have chosen
hope over fear, unity of purpose over
conflict and discord,” the nation’s 44th
president said.
The presidency passed to Democrat
(See Obama, Page 7A)
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law and cannot obtain a “green
card” that would allow her to
live in the United States.
Initially, the Japanese woman
sought permanent residence so
she could come to Blount County for the birth of the couple’s
son and raise him here with her
in-laws.
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immigration officials because the
couple had not been married for
two years before the sergeant’s
death, according to Sgt. Ferschke’s mother, Robin Ferschke.
With the assistance of U.S.
legislators, Hotaru Ferskche
was granted a temporary visa,
but the approval came too close
to the baby’s due date for her to
feel comfortable flying to the
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KINGSPORT — The prevailing view
from 853 Dale St. just after noon on
Tuesday was it’s good that Barack Obama is president of the United States of
America, but he needs God to lead him.
A half dozen Kingsport AfricanAmericans gathered inside Edward
Hayes’ home to reverently watch the nation’s first African-American take the
oath of office and deliver his “New Era
of Responsibility” inaugural address on
television.
None shed any tears, and they were
Editor’s Note
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WASHINGTON — Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million,
Barack Hussein Obama claimed
his place in history as America’s
first black president, summoning
a dispirited nation to unite in hope
against the “gathering clouds and
raging storms” of war and economic woe.
On an extraordinary day in
the life of America, people of all
colors and ages waited for hours
Tuesday in frigid temperatures to
witness the moment as a young
black man with a foreign-sounding
name took command of a nation
founded by slaveholders. It was a
scene watched in fascination by
many millions — perhaps billions
— around the world.
“We gather because we have
chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord,” the
nation’s 44th president said.
The presidency passed to Dem-
ocrat Obama from Republican
George W. Bush at the stroke of
noon, marking one of democracy’s
greatest gifts: the peaceful transfer
of power.
But a stark transfer all the same.
In one of the new administration’s
first acts, Obama ordered federal
agencies to halt all pending regulations until further review — this
after Bush’s final weeks raised
heated debate over rushing new
rules into effect on the way out the
door.
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Tears flowed for Marie Knaff of Harriman while watching the inauguration of President Barack Obama Tuesday. Knaff, holding her goddaughter Kyra Gore, was one of many residents who went to Jamieson Community Center in Harriman to watch the historical moment.
By CINDY SIMPSON
[email protected]
A sense of pride and hope overwhelmed the auditorium at Harriman’s Jamieson Community Center
Tuesday.
The building — once the home of a segregated
Roane County school — was now filled with people
celebrating the inauguration of President Barack
Obama, the nation’s first African-American president.
“This is an historic moment for me, something I
thought would never happen, something I
dreamed about my whole life,” said Judy
Anderson of Harriman.
Her husband, Spencer, took a vacation day so he could witness the
inauguration.
“It means we, as a people
have come a tremendous way,”
he said. “We’ve come a long way
but still have a long way to
go.”
For the Andersons, who have
three grandchildren, it is an
opportunity to look to younger generations and say with
confidence they can accomplish much.
“Right now I feel like I can
really tell them they can be
anything they want to be,” Judy
said.
Tears flowed and a chant of
“Obama” filled the room briefly following Obama’s oath of office.
A box of tissues sat at the ready
for one group of women. Shirts
showing the First Family were
in abundance.
Mamie Hamilton
was ebullient.
“This is the
greatest day of my
life,” she said. “I
didn’t think I
would ever live to
see a black president. I didn’t
think my children, which the oldest is 30, would live
to see it.”
The group responded passionately to the Rev. Rick
Warren, who led the invocation in the nation’s capital
before Obama was sworn in.
Warren said Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders like him were in heaven shouting.
Many in attendance could remember segregation
and the prejudices experienced during that time.
Mary Hickey, a retired school teacher, was a teacher at Jamieson and later at Central Elementary
School after integration.
She remembers standing across the
street from Harriman High School to
catch a bus to go to Campbell High
School in Rockwood.
“We’ve come a long way since that
time,” Hickey said.
“I just think this is such a great
day for the nation and especially
African-Americans,” she said.
“I’m so glad the good Lord let me
live to see it.”
She believes that Obama will
give young people something to
believe in.
“It will give our young people
hope,” Hickey said. “When I was
teaching, I was telling them
they could be anything they
could be; now it is true.”
Roslyn Eskridge, a kindergarten
teacher at Walnut Hill Elementary,
was also in attendance.
She attended a one-room school at
Emory Gap School until the eighth
grade, when integration was ordered.
Eskridge said that a colleague at
Walnut Hill came to her and said they
knew she must be proud that Obama
was elected.
She
responded
that now when
she looks into
the faces of her
school children,
See OBAMA,
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By DAMON LAWRENCE
[email protected]
Roane County Constable Mark Patton could soon find
himself out of office. An ouster suit was filed against him
in Roane County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Patton, who was elected as constable for the 6th District in August 2006, has been accused of using his police powers to harass residents and law enforcement officers.
The suit, filed by District Attorney General Russell
Johnson and County Attorney Tom McFarland, points to
several incidents as grounds Patton should be removed
from office. One is an encounter Patton had with Sheriff
Jack Stockton at the courthouse last August.
Shortly after a chancellor’s ruling reinstated him as
constable, Patton stood on the courthouse steps with a
gun holstered to his side and his hands wrapped around
a big stick. The suit alleges that Patton caused several
citizens to flee the courthouse in fear and prompted
Stockton to pull out his gun “in an attempt to protect
himself from the defendant.”
The suit also states that Patton “accosted, assaulted
and threatened several citizens” at Kingston City Park
last September.
He was arrested and charged with three counts of assault for that incident.
The suit also alleges that Patton assaulted Stockton’s
daughter and grandchildren by “willfully and wantonly
using his vehicle as a weapon” last November.
McFarland and Johnson want Patton immediately
suspended from office until the matter is resolved. The
suit also asks “that a temporary suspension hearing” be
held as soon as possible.
Patton attorney Chris Cawood did not return a phone
call by Tuesday deadline.
The
How should Kingston deal with the longterm impacts of the TVA fly ash spill? An adviser will help city officials chart that path.
The Kingston City Council will meet in
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for an extended work session on Saturday,
Jan. 31.
The meeting, from 9 a.m. until noon, will
be facilitated by Warren Nevad, a management consultant for UT-MTAS.
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TPA President
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Lovelace
Lou Lambert of
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Barack Obama, left, takes the oath of office as his wife, Michelle, holds the Lincoln Bible and daughters Sasha, right, and Malia, watch.
SPECIAL INAUGURATION COVERAGE IN TODAY’S EDITION
>> Wade: Speech ‘wonderful,’ PAGE B1
>> World’s hopes soar for Obama, PAGE B10
Thousands in Kenya watch inaugural address.
More on
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Tribune Staff Writer
It was a scene that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . dreamed
of but never realized. People
of all races converged together to hear a message of peace
and brotherhood.
Despite frigid weather
and f alling snow, more than
100 gathered at the Jef ferson
County Courthouse Monday
to celebrate the birth of the
Civil Rights leader and to remember his message.
DNJ PHOTO BY AARON THOMPSON
Anescia Collins becomes emotional as she watches the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday at MTSU’s
Keathley University Center.
: Multimedia of local residents reacting to the inauguration
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ASHINGTON (AP)
— Stepping into history ,
Barack Hussein Obama grasped
the reins of po wer as America’s
first black president today , saying the nation must choose “hope
over fear , unity of purpose o ver
conflict and discord” to o vercome
the worst economic crisis since the
Great Depression.
In frigid temperatures, an e xuberant crowd of more than a million packed the National Mall and
parade route to celebrate Obama’s
inauguration in a high-noon cer emony. The y filled the National
Mall, stretching from the inaugural
platform at the U.S. Capitol to the
Lincoln Memorial in the distance.
With 11 million Americans out
of w ork and trillions of dollars
lost in the stock mark et’s tumble,
Obama emphasized that his biggest challenge is to repair the tat-
‘Starting today, we
must pick ourselves up, dust
ourselves off and begin the work
of remaking America,’
Barack Obama
44th president of the United States
tered economy left behind by outgoing President George W. Bush.
“Our time of standing pat, of
protecting narro w interests and
putting of f unpleasant decisions
— that time has surely passed, ”
Obama said in an undisguised
shot at Bush administration policies. “Starting today, we must pick
ourselves up, dust ourselv es of f
and be gin the w ork of remaking
America.”
The da wn of the ne w Democratic era — with Obama allies in
charge of both houses of Congress
— ends eight years of Republican
control of the White House by
Bush, who lea ves Washington as
one of the nation’ s most unpopular and di visive presidents, the
architect of tw o unfinished wars
See OBAMA page 6
For more
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Barack H. Obama is sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts as the 44th President of the United States on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C. Obama becomes
the first African American to be elected to the office of President in the history of the United States. President Barack Obama gives his inaugural address during his inauguration after taking the oath of office.
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Check out Tribune managing editor John
Gullion’s blog on
www.citizentirbune.
com. Gullion will be
blogging from D.C.
The site is already
chock full of Obama
election news,
videos, graphics and
AP interactives that
explore the history of
the presidency, past
inaugurations and
much, much more.
To view the blog log on
to www.citizentribune.com and click
on the Inaugural
Coverage link on the
left nav bar.
Local citizens reflect on new Presidency
By SAM HATCHER
and JOHN B. BRYAN
The Wilson Post
“I’m elated and excited,” were
the first words from a 70-year-old
African American yesterday
when she was contacted by
telephone by The Wilson Post.
Her emotional words burst
through the telephone receiver
immediately after “Good morning
Mary. How are you?”
Mary Harris, a longtime leader
in Lebanon’s African American
community, made it clear that the
inauguration of President Barack
Obama was a very important
event in her life.
Without expressly detailing her
thoughts, her thoughts were made
clear when she said only a few
words, “I’m 70-years-old and
when you’ve experienced some
of the things I and others my age
have . . . well, you know it’s a
very important day.”
Although she didn’t say it, the
Dandridge honors MLK
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“I didn’ t think I w ould
live long enough to see the
changes in this w orld that
we are seeing no w,” said
Wallace Coleman, a musician who sang, “I Shall Not
Be Moved.” Originally from
Morristown, Coleman is now
retired and mak es his home
in Cle veland, Ohio. He has
attended each MLK celebration since 2000.
The celebration started at
the dik e in Dandridge with
a march to the courthouse
to commemorate the Ci vil
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Check out our community slideshow of other MLK events.
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Rights marches of the 1960s.
Rev. Rosie Curberson of
the Ne w Zion AME Zion
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Church in Ne wport deli vered the opening prayer
.
Dandridge Mayor Geor ge
Gantte was on hand to deliver
a brief speech. Coleman w as
one of se veral performers
who sang.
Rev. Norman Jef ferson
spoke about the changes in
society in the last 45 years.
He acknowledged that while
African Americans
have
made tremendous strides
there is still room for change. Musician
accomplished and we will all be
better,” Harris said.
She urged that Obama’s
presidency should not be viewed
as a black or white issue but
rather as an “opportunity for our
country to come together, work
together and be together.”
Hattie Bryant, a retired educator and Obama campaign supporter, reflected after viewing the
inauguration of the 44th President,
“It’s really hard for me to put into
words what I am feeling. After
living my entire life on Forrest
Avenue and experiencing a taste
of the separation of races,
teaching 20 years in segregation
and the last 13 in an integrated
classroom…my hope is that our
President will make our country a
better place for all people. I am
so thankful at age 85 to see this
come to be.”
Lebanon resident Todd Jones
said although he didn’t vote for
the President he is all for him
now. “I think we need to come
together as a country and support
him. We are facing a tough
economy now and President
Obama needs our support to see
us through this,” he said.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander,
R-Tennessee, chairman of the
Senate Republican Conference,
today made the following statement on the inauguration of
President Obama to serve as the
44th President of the United
States:
“In August 1963, I was a law
student and a summer intern in
the Department of Justice,
standing at the back of a huge
crowd on a hot day when Dr.
King spoke of his dream that one
day his children would not be
judged ‘by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.’ The inauguration of
Barack Obama the day after Dr.
King’s birthday symbolizes both
remarkable progress on
America’s most intractable
problem – race – and a reaffirmation of America’s most unique
characteristic – a fervent belief
that anything is possible.”
Lebanon Mayor Philip
Craighead said he thought the
crowds would be overwhelming
“All the hundreds of thousands
of people there and all that
security, I hate to try to get
around in that,” Craighead said.
“I’m excited for him and I wish
him well. I hope everybody will
get behind him and help him get
this country where we belong.”
Regarding Obama’s sudden
rise to the presidency, Craighead
said, “Things all of a sudden lead
you in life. Different opportunities
come before you and you follow
the hints, then all of a sudden like
him you’re President.”
Fifth District U.S. Rep. Jim
Cooper issued the following
statement after attending the
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received, to demonstrate the coverage
and the variety of ideas newspapers
used in covering the beginning of the
term of the 44th U.S. president.
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Check out inauguration pages, coverage in the state’s newspapers
newspapers from Jan. 21, the day after
the historic inauguration of President
Barack H. Obama. One can find these at
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Wallace Coleman enter
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reference was clearly about the
movement to abolish segregation
in the late 1950s and 1960s and
the years before that dating back
to slavery.
She said she believed and was
hopeful that “we collectively” can
work for “the betterment” of our
country and community.
This community leader, who
has volunteered her services to
help organize an African American History Museum, publish a
history about the local African
American Community and is now
engaged in trying to restore the
old historically prominent Pickett
Chapel, says she thinks the
message transmitted by the new
president about “serving” is “so
important” to our country’s
future.
“I think leadership sets the
tone and I think we all have
something to offer. I think, if our
community and our country can
work together, there will be much
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Barack Obama, left, joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office fr om Chief Justice John Roberts to become the 44th
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Inside
• A transfer of power like none before it ............... Page 4A
• Gone to Texas: Bush returns to state he loves... Page 4A
• Celebrities get prime view of inauguration ....... Page 4A
• In inaugural prayers, a nod to many faiths ........ Page 7A
• Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich misses deadline.. Page 8A
• Million-plus brave cold to witness history ......... Page 3B
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office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me God.”
81-year-old Rutherford resident reflects on nation’s progress.
Adviser to help
steer Kingston
officials on ash
spill impacts
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Vol. 43 No. 116
TVA buyouts
could reduce
county coffers
By DAMON LAWRENCE
[email protected]
TVA has made no secret of its willingness to buy out
property owners around the ash spill area.
“We’re trying to settle from the nearest out,” TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore said at a recent public hearing. “If you want to sell your home and move out of the
area, we’re willing to do that.”
So is TVA also willing to pay property taxes on the
property it buys?
“We are going to look at that issue, but a determination has not been made,” TVA spokesman Gil Francis
said.
Roane County Property Assessor Teresa Kirkham said
the county stands to lose some money because unlike
property owners, TVA doesn’t pay property taxes.
“That’s right,” Kirkham said. “From the property that
TVA buys, we’ll be losing some revenue from it.”
Property and its value has become a big issue since
the Dec. 22 fly ash spill at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the TVA disaster released an estimated 5.4 million
cubic yards of fly ash to the Emory and Clinch rivers and
surrounding areas.
Many property owners are worried the values of their
homes will drop because of it.
TVA’s plan to buy out property owners, and the potential for loss property tax revenue, raises another issue for
the county.
“Those properties will come off the rolls,” Kirkham
said.
County Commissioner Mike Hooks said he believes
TVA should pay the county for the lost property tax revenue.
Hooks said he raised the issue with TVA officials at
the recent public hearing.
“I just wanted to make sure it was something that was
on their minds,” Hooks said.
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Geraldine Swagerty, pastor at the Full Gospel Mission, and her daughter
Johnnie Mae Swagerty watch the inauguration of Barack Obama as the
nations’s 44th president Tuesday at the home of Edward and Tish Hayes.
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Then she stressed what it will take for
Obama to be an effective leader.
“I thank God for allowing a man like
him (to be president),” Geraldine Swagerty said. “I just hope and pray that he
will let the Lord lead him instead of him
leading himself because that is what is
wrong with America today. We are getting away from God. We need to get to
God because He is the one who is going
to lead us. ... He needs to let God be first
in his life that he could run America like
it should be run. ... He should make a
fine president if he lets the Lord lead.”
Obama plunges into his new job
in earnest on Wednesday, meeting
with his economic team and Iraq
advisers while Congress gives his
economic revival plan a going-over
and takes up the nomination of
Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state. Her confirmation
has been held up for now by Republican concern over the foundation
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Swagerty, applauded after Obama became the nation’s 44th president.
Geraldine Swagerty, pastor at the
Full Gospel Mission, breathed a sigh of
relief when Obama mentioned “God’s
grace upon us” at the end of his remarks.
“I’m glad he said something about the
Lord,” she said. “He’s going to have to
have the Lord first in his life, God bless
him.”
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W. Bush and his wife, Laura, leave on a helicopter.
A 20-year-old Greenback
School grad stood tall
Tuesday during inauguration ceremonies for
the nation’s
44th president.
As Seaman
Apprentice
Eric Hunt
passed the
r e v i e w i n g Hunt
stand during the inaugural parade,
the command “Eyes Left!”
turned his head toward
the new president. Barack
Obama waved back.
Hunt is a member of an
elite unit — the U.S. Navy
Ceremonial Guard.
He had already seen
President Bush during
military farewell ceremonies. He saw and met stars
during rehearsal and at the
opening ceremonies at the
Lincoln Memorial. Denzel
Washington, Tom Hanks,
Bon Jovi, Samuel Jackson, Tiger Woods, Garth
Brooks. Others he can’t
even remember.
Hunt has seen celebrities before. No big deal.
He used to work at TAC
Air, the private terminal
at McGhee Tyson Airport,
and saw plenty come and
go.
Tuesday was a long day.
Up at 3 a.m. Make sure
you have everything in
place. Get your weapon.
Ride to the Pentagon to
get inspected and have
your weapon checked to
make sure the firing pin
is removed. Arrive at the
tents in the staging area.
Fallen Marine’s widow faces new immigration hurdle
The immigration saga continues for Hotaru Ferschke, widow
of Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke Jr.,
the Maryville Marine killed in
action Aug. 10 while serving in
Iraq.
Because of a Korean War-era
provision, she is not considered
married under immigration
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By Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn
WASHINGTON — A vast, excited crowd
of more than 1 million bore witness Tuesday to a transfer of American power like
none before it. The blare of regal trumpets and thunder of cannon were familiar. The transition from Republican to
Democrat, and gray hair to dark, had happened before.
This, however, was white to black, a
shattering of racial barriers finally made
complete when Barack Obama made it
through a bumbled oath-taking, delivered
a momentous-by-definition speech and
got back to being his unflappable self.
The Democrat who charged onto the
national scene saying this was not a nation
of red states and blue states, but the United States, became president while wearing a red tie, the Republican color.
AP Photo
Republican George W. Bush, president
no
more, wore a blue tie, the Democratic
President Barack Obama stands with his wife,
Michelle, as Vice President Joe Biden salutes color. They embraced at the Capitol and
alongside his wife, Jill, as former President George walked out together.
‘Change has come’
WASHINGTON — It was a moment unlike
any other in the life of America.
A jubilant crowd of more than a million, perhaps the biggest throng ever in Washington,
stood for hours in frigid temperatures Tuesday
to witness a young black man with a foreignsounding name take command of a nation
founded by slaveholders. The scene was
watched in fascination by millions more —
maybe billions — around the world.
Still, for all the hoopla, Barack “No Drama”
Obama took the oath of office and became the
first black president sounding inspirational
themes, warning foreign foes and hearing waves
of cheers — just like every president before
him.
“We gather because we have chosen hope
over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord,” the nation’s 44th president said.
He had a message for the world: “We are
ready to lead once more.”
Meaning that he, the young African-American, was ready to lead.
Obama didn’t forget he was black.
“This is the meaning of our liberty and our
creed,” he said, “why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in
celebration across this magnificent Mall, and
why a man whose father less than 60 years ago
might not have been served at a local restaurant
can now stand before you to take a most sacred
oath.”
No one blinked. That was that.
The presidency passed to black Democrat
Obama from white Republican George W. Bush
at the stroke of noon, marking one of democracy’s greatest gifts: the peaceful transfer of power.
It was a stark transfer all the same. In one of
the new administration’s first acts, Obama ordered federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until further review — this after Bush’s
final weeks raised heated debate over rushing
new rules into effect on the way out the door.
And even though new White House aides
struggled to find offices and work intercoms, an
overhauled www.whitehouse.gov Web site was
running under Obama’s banner within minutes
of his swearing-in. “Change has come to America,” it declared.
Obama plunges into his new job in earnest
on Wednesday after capping inaugural festiviPlease see OBAMA, page 2A
Spring Hill
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attends
inaugural
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By Robert Norris
AP Photo
Barack Obama (left), joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday to become the 44th
president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
93rd Year, Number 21
By JENNIFER LOVEN
AP White House Correspondent
■ Bushes back home, Page 3A
■ Oath foulup, Page 3A
■ Kennedy improves, Page 3A
■ Crowds over 1M, Page 3A
Obama becomes first
black president, calls
on country to unite
WEDNESDAY
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The March issue of The Tennessee
Press will contain further coverage of
the inauguration from the particular
point of interest of newspapers in
Tennessee—who went, who covered it
first-hand, and the like.
If any reader has a particularly interesting experience, we encourage him
or her to tell us about it. Contact me at
[email protected].
Folks at the 2008 Ad/Circ Conference participate in a roundtable discussion.
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Enrollment begins in TnNET
BY BETH ELLIOTT
Network advertising manager
Open enrollment
for Tennessee’s
online advertising
network, TnNET,
has begun.
“This is an exciting opportunity for
our association,”
said Kevin Slimp,
Elliott
Tennessee Press
Service (TPS) technology director. “The
INSIDE
GRISCOM
FORESIGHT
TnNET online network not only offers
a new revenue avenue for participating
papers, but it’s a great way to support
Tennessee Press Service. With minimal
effort on the newspaper’s part, it’s a
win-win situation.”
TPA member newspapers that enroll
in TnNET will have an opportunity to
make money through this new revenue
stream. The online advertising network
will require no sales efforts on your
part. The only thing required is to place
a short string of code provided by TPS
on your Web site. TPS will work with
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STASIOWSKI
every newspaper to help walk them
through placement of the code.
TnNET ads will be sold as an add-on
for current ROP and network clients,
giving them a cost-effective way to have
a statewide online presence through one
point of contact, TPS or newspapers
that enroll in the network. Newspapers
that wish to do so can sell ads into TnNET and keep 40 percent commission!
Ads will be online for one month for
$2,200. An introductory rate of $1,200
SEE TnNET, PAGE 3
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JOHN I. CARNEY | SHELBYVILLE TIMES-GAZETTE
Kevin Slimp distributes material to participants in InDesign and Photoshop
training in Shelbyville. The Shelbyville Times-Gazette and the Marshall
County Tribune, Lewisburg, were preparing in January for a system-wide
editorial workflow upgrade. From left are David Melson and Danette
Williams, Times-Gazette, and Jennifer Vendro and Karen Hall, Tribune.
Contact Slimp at TPS in Knoxville to arrange for onsite training.
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Greg M. Sherrill.....................................................Editor
Elenora E. Edwards.............................Managing Editor
Robyn Gentile..........................Production Coordinator
Angelique Dunn...............................................Assistant
The Tennessee Press
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and is recyclable.
The Tennessee Press can be read on
www.tnpress.com
OFFICIAL WEB SITE OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Tom Griscom, Chattanooga Times Free Press....................................President
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange.................................Vice President
Art Powers, Johnson City Press...................................................Vice President
Bill Williams, The Paris Post-Intelligencer...........................................Treasurer
Greg M. Sherrill, Knoxville....................................................Executive Director
DIRECTORS
Lynn Richardson, Herald and Tribune, Jonesborough........................District 1
Jack McElroy, News Sentinel, Knoxville..............................................District 2
Chris Vass, Chattanooga Times Free Press...........................................District 3
Mike DeLapp, Herald-Citizen, Cookeville.............................................District 4
Hugh Jones, Shelbyville Times-Gazette...............................................District 5
Ellen Leifeld, The Tennessean, Nashville..............................................District 6
John Finney, Buffalo River Review, Linden.........................................District 7
Brad Franklin, The Lexington Progress.................................................District 8
Joel Washburn, Dresden Enterprise.....................................................District 9
Eric Barnes, The Daily News, Memphis..............................................District 10
Pauline D. Sherrer, Crossville Chronicle................................................At large
TENNESSEE PRESS SERVICE
Dale C. Gentry, The Standard Banner, Jefferson City.........................President
Pauline D. Sherrer, Crossville Chronicle......................................Vice President
W. R. (Ron) Fryar, American Hometown Publishing, Franklin.............Director
Jeff Fishman, The Tullahoma News........................................................Director
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange............................................Director
Michael Williams, The Paris Post-Intelligencer......................................Director
Greg M. Sherrill............................................................Executive Vice President
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
W.R. (Ron) Fryar, American Hometown Publishing, Franklin............President
Gregg K. Jones, The Greeneville Sun..........................................Vice President
Richard L. Hollow, Knoxville....................................................General Counsel
Greg M. Sherrill....................................................................Secretary-Treasurer
CONTACT THE MANAGING EDITOR
TPAers with suggestions, questions or comments about items inTheTennessee
Press are welcome to contact the managing editor. Call Elenora E. Edwards,
(865) 457-5459; send a note to P.O. Box 502, Clinton, TN 37717-0502; or e-mail
[email protected]. The March issue deadline is Feb. 9.
FEBRUARY 2009
A few easy, no-cost takeaways
When assessing whether to spend the money to
the story left the original launching page. In most
attend a conference, one of the determining points
instances you will know when a story should have
is longer-term benefit.
been shortened or possibly rewritten.
A long list of speakers with more credentials
There is a tendency to write to fill space and not to
than a page will hold is not the best draw card for
tell the story. Too often a 15-inch story can be reduced
hyping enrollment. That is not to say that speakers,
to eight inches, be more engaging and leave room for
who are about as exciting as watching paint dry,
additional content. You and the writer will find that
do not influence a conference choice.
the eight-inch story can be more difficult to construct
But give me some meaningful takeaways, and
than the run-on version that was twice as long.
I am there.
While on the story front, start thinking how a
YOUR
The Tennessee Press Association winter convenreader, regardless of platform, should be able to
tion offered a host of tips, shortcuts and ideas. PRESIDING access your information.
Many are not novel and most are easy to apply.
Print is obvious because it happens each day or
The key is to answer a simple question: Will this REPORTER week. The online posting allows readers to access
improve the reader experience?
their local content at home, work or on the road.
With that in mind, let’s share a few quick and
Adding video or audio to the presentation extends
Tom
Griscom
easy reader devices.
the material, putting sound and moving pictures
When news space is a premium, and the readerwith the static print.
ship cries out for more content, what is one to do? Apply the
This is the any-way-you-want-it, we-can-provide-it appencil or ink test.
proach, allowing access to audiences and readers in multiple
Take any story and start reading. Draw a line when you formats.
reach a point in the story where you either feel you know
That is why the Tennessee Press Association winter conventhe whole story or lose interest. Take another story and then tion served the membership well.
another and apply the same test.
Go back and look at your line marks and see how many TOM GRISCOM is publisher and editor of the Chattanooga
went to the end of the story, somewhat into the jump or before Times Free Press.
Papers delayed by suspicious package
TRACKS
Beverly Keel, an entertainment
columnist with The Tennessean,
Nashville, since 2006, has left the
newspaper.
Earlier, she was a business writer at
the now-closed Nashville Banner. She
is the daughter of the late Pinckney
Keel, columnist and managing editor
of the Banner.
Keel also has been teaching at Middle
Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, holding the John Seigenthaler
Chair of Excellence. She has worked
for other publications as well.
Keel’s husband, Ronnie Steine, is a
former vice mayor of Nashville and
now is a councilman.
The ad below and others similar to
it, provided by TPA President Tom
Griscom, are available at www.
tnpress.com for TPAers to run in
their newspapers.
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
“Journalists, by their
very nature, represent
the ultimate strength
of an open society as
well as its ultimate
vulnerability.”
—Judea Pearl
Courtesy, Freedom Forum
By LEA ANN OVERSTREET ALLEN
The Tennessean, Nashville
Suspicious contents in a package
opened at The Tennessean Jan. 19 caused
a three-hour delay in production affecting delivery of four newspapers printed
at the Broadway plant in Nashville.
Police were called to the newspaper,
and the building was evacuated at
7:40 p.m. The package was examined
by the bomb squad and a hazardous
materials team.
No explosive device was found, said
Metro Police Capt. Michele Donegan,
but a substance in the package was
considered “suspicious” though not a
threat. Police were testing the substance
to determine its nature. Printing of The
Tennessean, USA Today, The Daily News
Journal of Murfreesboro and The LeafChronicle of Clarksville was held up while
police checked the package. Employees
were allowed to return to the building at
about 10:40 p.m....
Tennessean makes format changes
An Associated Press story Jan. 6 said
that The Tennessean, Nashville, had
made some format changes to combine
editions and eliminate daily television
listings.
Editor Mark Silverman attributed
the changes, which took effect Jan. 5,
to the recession.
The weekday local and business news
sections have been combined into one
section. The paper is combining its
Friday features and weekend sections
and turning two Sunday features sections into one.
Although the daily television listings
have ended, the newspaper is continu-
ing weekly TV listings on Sundays.
The paper also reorganized its newsroom staff for its print and Web operations and named an editor to oversee efforts to involve readers in coverage.
Silverman said the paper had received
responses from nearly 4,000 readers
while it considered how to reformat the
newspaper.
The Tennessean is owned by the Gannett Co.
Partners
“Intellectual freedom, of course, implies intellectual diversity.”
Frances FitzGerald, 2007
Tennessee Press Service
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FEBRUARY 2009
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No competition in making two purchases
BY KEVIN SLIMP
TPS technology director
Unfortunately, I
had to spend money out of my own
pocket for a couple
of computer-related products this
week.
Fortunately, I saw
the first one comSlimp
ing. When you’re
in the business of
speaking about the latest computer
products, people expect you to own the
latest and greatest yourself. So once
a year, whether I need one or not, I
buy a new computer. So what does the
“technology guru” buy when he has to
spend his own money? My choice was
a 15” MacBook Pro. I was tempted to
go with the 17-inch model but decided
to practice what I preach. The 17-inch
model is just too big to carry through
airports several times a month.
I was visiting with a PC-using colleague in Tennessee by phone yesterday
and mentioned that I’d just purchased
the new computer. His response was,
“I could buy three PC laptops for that
much money.”
Truth be told, I could have bought
a couple of MacBooks for the same
money (yes, I was tempted), but I’ve
learned the hard way that you get what
you pay for. That’s not just true of cars
and phones. I need a computer that
works every time. I don’t have time to
worry about fixing a computer. I need
a computer that’s not susceptible to
viruses. I need a computer that doesn’t
need upgrading every few months with
new service packs. I need a computer
that still speeds through applications
after it gets some wear and tear.
That’s why I recommend iMacs for my
clients who are buying desktop computers. Sure, they could buy a couple of
cheap PCs for the $1,200 they’ll spend on
an iMac, but they won’t have to worry
about computers breaking down, virus
attacks and more over the years.
So my first purchase was the MacBook
Pro. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the
second one coming.
If you read my column regularly, you
know that I’m a big believer in backup
drives. You can’t have too many of them.
I keep two of them connected to my
primary desktop (yes, it’s an iMac). You
might even remember that I always keep
at least two backup drives, because they
tend to break down after two or three
years. The better drives tend to last a
little longer. You guessed it. Yesterday,
I was in the middle of backing up my
system when the secondary backup
drive started clicking. Hardware gurus
refer to this as the “click of death.”
When you hear the click of death,
you know a drive is history. Whether
it’s an external or internal drive, the
click means it’s time to do an immediate backup, on the chance that you can
still save your data. It was too late for
mine. There was no saving the data on
this drive. Fortunately, I have another
backup drive with the same data, so
I’m OK. But I am forced to purchase a
replacement drive. Yes, with my own
money.
While we’re discussing the backup
drive, you might be interested in knowing that I had two brands of drives
connected to my iMac. One was a Lacie,
the brand I always recommend to my
friends and clients. The other was a
Western Digital. You guessed it. The
Lacie drive is fine.
So this morning, with credit card in
hand, I ordered a Lacie Triple-Interface
(Firewire, USB, eSATA) drive. For $100
plus change, I ordered a 500 Gigabyte
drive that should work quite nicely.
The Lacie drives work well with both
PCs and Macs.
Donations can be sent to my usual
address.
InCopy continues to Impress
InCopy is Adobe’s word processing
application that works in concert with
InDesign. Even though InCopy has been
around for a long time, I still get a lot
of questions about it.
Often overlooked because it’s not part
of the bundled Creative Suite products,
InCopy is a valuable resource, making
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FROM PAGE 10
Do not store the unprotected newspaper with or next to other acidic
materials such as wood, cardboard,
notebook paper, etc.
Is it OK to frame the newspaper for
hanging?
Framing is OK, but it’s important to
keep newspapers away from sunlight,
moisture and insects. Use conservation
quality glass or acrylic that filters out
harmful UV light. Even if you use UVfiltered glass, do not place the framed
newspaper in a sunny area. Make sure
that the matting or backing is 100 percent cotton fiber — cotton rag matboard
— and preferably buffered. Never place
the newspaper on a cardboard backing.
This will result in rapid deterioration.
Most custom frame shops will have
these materials available, so you may
not have to buy them online.
(From The Newseum)
Real bondage
“Tell a man what he may not sing,
and he is still half free—even all free,
if he never wanted to sing it. But tell
him what he must sing, take up his
time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret—there, I have
seen, is slavery.”
Mary Renault
Author, 1978
HOW TO CONTACT US
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Mail: 435 Montbrook Lane,
Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone: (865) 584-5761
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E-mail: (name)@tnpress.com
Those with boxes, listed
alphabetically:
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InCopy allows users to work in different modes. This screenshot shows
InCopy in Story mode.
it possible for even small operations
to have a managed editorial workflow.
I’ve been using InCopy CS4 over the
past couple of months and continue to
appreciate this powerful application.
While the CS4 versions adds only a
couple of noteworthy new features, it’s
important to make sure your version
of InCopy is the same as InDesign. If
you’re considering an upgrade to the
CS4 suite of applications (InDesign,
Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and you use
InCopy in your workflow, remember to
upgrade that as well.
Upgrades to InCopy start at $89.
The full version is $249. For more
Lacie brand external drives are information, visit adobe.com/prodSlimp’s favorite backup devices.
ucts/incopy/.
Drive-In Training
Note that we have several
technology-related training
sessions in Nashville during the Drive-In Training
portion of the convention.
This is a great time to learn
new techniques and find
answers to some of those
software and hardware issues that have been getting
on your nerves. For more
information, visit www.
This is the drive that Slimp bought. For less than
tnpress.com.
$100, plus shipping, this 500-GB drive works
with USB and Firewire connections.
Gannett plans worker furloughs
Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, said it will require most
of its U.S. employees, including Chief
Executive Officer Craig Dubow, to take
one week of unpaid leave this quarter
to help save money.
The furloughs include The Tennessean, Nashville, which Gannett owns.
“A furlough program would be the fairest and least intrusive way to meet these
fiscal challenges in the first quarter,”
said Dubow in a memo to employees.
“We sincerely hope this minimizes the
need for any layoffs going forward.”
The company has cut jobs and
trimmed print editions after publishing
revenue slipped 14 percent in October
and November.
(The Tennessean, Nashville,
Jan. 15, 2009)
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An article in The New York Times
about the furlough said Gannett owns
85 daily newspapers. Craig A. Dubow,
chairman, president and chief executive, said he and all other top executives
would be included. It noted that Gannett eliminated 3,500 jobs in 2007 and
a “similar number” in 2008.
Have a job
opening?
Post your open positions and review
resumes in the employment area of
www.tnpress.com.
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Advertising e-mail:
Knoxville office:
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Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
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Phone: (615) 472-8259
Fax: (615) 472-8260
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Fax: (865) 558-8687
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Perspective on asking for the order
Chase was talking to me about selling. “Ever
since I started my sales career, I’ve heard that it’s
important to ask for the order. Most of the sales
books I’ve read—and most of the sales seminars
I’ve attended—preach that successful sales people
always ask their prospects to buy. In fact, I wouldn’t
be surprised if ‘ask for the order’ is the most frequently quoted sales principle in the world.
“I used to buy into that philosophy hook, line and
sinker. But through my years of selling advertising, I’ve come around to a different point of view.
Without a doubt, questions are key elements in the
sales process. It’s crucial to ask relevant questions
during the exploratory part of a sales call. We
have to ask questions—and listen intently to the
responses—as we get to know our prospects and
the problems they face in business. We have to
stay in step with their thought process, and ask
how they see our paper as a viable solution
to the table.
to their marketing needs. But when it comes
Salesperson: When would you like to sign
to closing, I’ve learned that a directive can
the contract to get things started?
work better than a question.”
Prospect: Just leave the information with
Chase has a good point. When a salesme, and I’ll let you know.
person has done a good job of identifying
What just happened? The salesperson
needs and solutions, answering objections
has asked for the order, but the prospect
and demonstrating the value of purchashas backed away. Here’s how a different
ing, why in the world should he or she ask
ending could have produced a more posifor anything? Just come right out and tell
tive result:
them what to do (diplomatically, of course).
Salesperson: In our meeting today, we’ve
For example:
seen that The Gazette reaches the audience
Salesperson: In our meeting today, we’ve John Foust you want to target, and that our creative
team can put together a campaign that will
you want to target and that our creative
communicate your message.
Prospect: Yes, I think The Gazette brings
a lot to the table.
Prospect: Yes, I think The Gazette brings a lot
Salesperson: That’s great news. Since this is a
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prime time for your business, I know you want
to get results from your advertising as quickly
as possible. Just put your autograph on this
agreement, and we’ll get things started.
Prospect: Sounds good. Where do I sign?
See the difference? By asking permission in
the first example, the salesperson has given
the prospect a reason to delay the decision. The
second example provides a clear action step. It
says “do this” instead of “will you do this?”
“The secret,” Chase concluded, “is to build a
strong case for your product, get agreement, then
just tell them what they need to do next.”
© Copyright 2009 by John Foust. All rights reserved.
JOHN FOUST can provide information
about his training videos for ad departments:
[email protected].
Preserving newspaper mementos: tips for safe storage
BY SHARON SHAHID
Senior Web editor
The Newseum, Washington, D.C.
Just as his historic election as the
first African-American president of the
United States prompted a nationwide
run on newspapers, President Barack
H. Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20
forced publishers to print extra editions
of the event to keep up with public
demand. The challenge now for new
collectors is to guarantee a long shelf
life for their precious mementos.
The Newseum’s curatorial department preserves more than 35,000
historic newspapers and periodicals
in its collection — some dating back to
1526 — and knows a thing or two about
how to make sure these newspapers
are protected for years to come. Here
are answers to the frequently asked
questions our curators received in the
aftermath of Election Day.
How do I make sure my newspaper
stays in good condition?
The most important safety tip is to
make sure the newspapers are not exposed to light. Light damage is cumulative and irreversible. Avoid handling the
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newspaper as much as possible.
Will plastic wrap protect my newspaper?
No, not home or kitchen wrap. We
recommend three ways to preserve
your newspaper.
• Store the newspaper in an acid-free
“buffered” archival folder — also called
a map/print folder because of its size.
Today’s newspapers contain acidic wood
pulp; buffering agents help slow their
deterioration. Buy an archival folder
large enough to store the newspaper
unfolded and flat. Storing newspapers
folded will result in eventual separation
at the fold due to stress.
• Place the newspaper in Melinex — a
clear, stiff, inert polyester that acts as a
support for paper materials. We suggest
Melinex that is sealed on one long side.
For extra protection, put the Melinexsealed newspaper in an archival folder.
Some suppliers offer archival folders
with a Melinex cover already inside.
• Put the newspaper in coated or
uncoated acid-free newspaper boxes,
preferably buffered, and large enough
to store the newspaper flat. Coated boxes
are more expensive, since they have a
water-resistant finish.
Where can I buy Melinex, archival
folders or newspaper boxes?
These products are not readily available in stores and can be purchased
online through archival suppliers such
as Gaylord Brothers, Light Impressions,
Archival Methods, and Hollinger/Metal
Edge. The products are expensive, but
they will ensure that your newspaper is
protected for a very long time.
Where should I store my newspaper?
The storage environment for newspapers should be moderate, without
extreme fluctuations in temperature
and humidity. Closet shelves are a good
home option for storing newspapers.
Attics and basements are less than
ideal spaces for archival materials
because of temperature and humidity
variations.
Can I keep the newspaper with other
collectibles?
SEE PRESERVE, PAGE 11
will be available to current ROP and
network advertisers.
Newspapers have the option of accepting one of the two network ad sizes,
IAB medium rectangle 300 x 250 pixel
(recommended) or 180 x 300 pixel. Newspapers can select the size that works best
with their Web sites. However, the IAB
standard size is more likely to be used
by advertisers, and for this reason we
recommend its use.
In December, TPS held a contest to
name the online advertising network.
Congratulations to Ward Phillips at
The News-Democrat in Waverly for
submitting the winning entry.
Kevin Slimp took the new name, “TnNET,” and created a logo. Please see the
ad on page 7.
TnNET will be the easiest network
yet in which your newspaper can participate and make money. Simply go to
www.tnpress.com. Click on the TnNET
ad to register. The network is scheduled
to go live March 15, so enroll today.
As always, TPS is here to serve you,
so please contact us with any questions
about TnNET or the enrollment form,
865-584-5761 ext. 117 or belliott@tnpress.
com.
TPA co-sponsoring workshop
Tennessee Press Association (TPA) is
co-sponsoring a one-day workshop on
the “new” newsroom on Friday, March
13, at Middle Tennessee State University
in Murfreesboro. The other sponsor is
the American Press Institute, based in
Reston, Va.
The one-day program will provide an
overview of how newspaper newsrooms
are reorganizing, creating new job descriptions and delivering news across
multiple platforms 24/7.
Who should attend? Executive editors, managing editors, associate and
assistant managing editors, and senior
editors as well as those charged with
newsroom reorganization for a print
and digital world.
 Hours of the workshop are 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. It will be held in Room 104 at
the John Bragg Mass Communication
Building.
 Tuition is $195 a person. Members
of TPA are eligible for a 10 percent
discount.
 To receive the discount, attendees need
to type in “TPA” in the box labeled “Promotional Code” near the end of the online
registration form. Discounts are available
only at the time of online registration and
payment and are not available retroactively. Tuition is non-refundable.
 For complete program information
and to register, go to www.americanpressinstitute.org/09/NewNewsroomTennessee.
If one has questions, he or she can
contact API registrar Melanie Grachan
at mgrachan@americanpressinstitute.
org or (703) 715-3307.
Circulation Boot Camp next month
Anderson, Randles & Associates
announced it will conduct its 16th
Newspaper Circulation Bootcamp
Wednesday and Thursday, March 11-12,
in Atlanta, Ga. 
This program is ideal for publishers,
general managers, new circulation
directors, editors, financial managers
and mid-level and future circulation
directors.  It is for executives who
want to understand what a circulation department should be doing to be
successful in 2009 and beyond, despite
challenging economic conditions. See
details at www.andersonrandles.com
for program details, or call Phil Hanna
at (770) 252-5900 or Don Michel at (319)
390-9288. 
SCMA conference scheduled
The Southern Circulation Managers
Association has scheduled its conference
for Sunday through Wednesday, April
26-29, at The Battle House in Mobile,
Ala.
Tennesseans have long been active
in the group. Currently, Jim Boyd, the
News Sentinel, Knoxville, is second
vice president, while Glen Tabor of
the Kingsport Times-News is treasurer,
and Dale Long, The Greeneville Sun, is
director at large.
Kudos
In memory of
Kathryn Craddock,
Publisher of
The Courier, Savannah,
by
Joe and Connie Albrecht,
Albrecht Consulting,
Cookeville
Kudos to Doug Horne of Republic
Newspapers, Knoxville, who submitted the first registration for the 2009
Winter Convention. It arrived at the
TPA offices on Dec. 12.
Kudos also to Robertson County
Times, Springfield, who was the first
to turn in entries for the Advertising/
Circulation Ideas Contest. They arrived Jan. 5.
Kudos to Bristol Herald Courier for
submitting the first entries in the UTTPA State Press Contests. They arrived Jan. 14.
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NNA Government Affairs
Conference set in March
A chance to see a new administration
in action is a benefit of the National
Newspaper Association 48th Annual
Government Affairs Conference. It is
set Wednesday through Friday, March
18-20, with headquarters at the Westin
Washington D.C. City Center Hotel.
Just two months after the inauguration of President Barack H. Obama,
attendees will see some of how the
government is shaping up.
The schedule allows time for NNAers
to invite their congressmen to lunch and
to visit newly- and re-elected officials
and key staff members as well as hear
newsmakers talk about their views on
topics such as the economy.
On tap is a tour of the Newseum, and
NNA has requested a press briefing at
the White House.
The first GAC event will be a Friends
of NNA reception on Wednesday at the
Westin, and the conference will end with
an optional evening event Friday.
The registration rate for NNA members is $390.
One can call the Westin at 1-888-6279035 to make a reservation. One should
ask for the NNA conference rate of $235
plus tax, which is available through
Feb. 20.
Following is the tentative agenda.
Wednesday, March 18
6-7 p.m. Friends Reception in the
Westin Hotel
7 p.m. Dinner on your own
Thursday, March 19
Morning Speakers and issues briefings
11:30 a.m. Congressional luncheon at
Library of Congress
1-5 p.m. Hill visits
Evening Optional event in town
Friday, March 20
7:30 a.m. Briefings, USPS at L’Enfant
Plaza
10 a.m.noon
Newseum tour
12:30 p.m. Luncheon with speaker,
Westin
2:45 p.m. Press briefing and tour
5:30 p.m. Closing reception, dinner
on own
7:30 p.m. Optional event
AP lifts ban on military photos 
The Associated Press lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by
the U.S. military after the Pentagon
assured the news cooperative that it
would avoid distributing altered images
to the news media. The AP also has
strengthened its internal procedures
for ensuring the integrity of photos
from outside sources.
The temporary ban was imposed after
the Army released a digitally manipulated photo of the U.S. military’s first
female four-star general. The photo of
Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody was the second
Army-provided photo the AP eliminated
from its service in (recent) months.
Santiago Lyon, the AP’s director of
photography, said he spoke with Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell, who
told him the military branches would
be reminded of a Defense Department
instruction that prohibits making
changes to images if doing so misrepresents the facts or the circumstances
of an event. The instruction does not
bar cropping, editing or enlarging a
photo to improve its quality. An image
can also be changed for security or
privacy reasons.
Read more at www.ap.org/pages/
about/whatsnew/wn_112108c.html.
(From www.ap.org/tennessee)
Hill lecture scheduled March 31
The annual Alfred and Julia Hill
Lecture on Science, Society and the
Mass Media has been scheduled for 8
p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Shiloh
Room of the University of Tennessee
University Center in Knoxville.
The speaker will be Tom Siegfried,
award-winning science writer and editor
in chief of Science News magazine.
His topic will be “Odds Are, It’s
Wrong—The Misuse of Science, Medicine and the Media.”
The lecture is sponsored by the UT
School of Journalism and Electronic
Media, the East Tennessee Society
of Professional Journalists and the
Society for Technical Communication,
East Tennessee Chapter.
The Hills were the founders and publishers of The Oak Ridger, Oak Ridge.
CLIPS
The Jones family of Shelbyville now
has five members. Gina and Hugh Jones
welcomed Matthew Edward Jones into
the world on Sunday morning, Jan. 4.
“Matthew and Gina are...well, healthy
and happy!” reported Hugh. Siblings
Anna and Andrew, who have attended
TPA conventions with their parents,
were wearing “I’m the big sister” and
“I’m the big brother” shirts, he said.
Hugh Jones is publisher of the Shelbyville Times-Gazette and the Marshall
County Tribune, Lewisburg.
FORESIGHT
2009
FEBRUARY
2: Deadline for entering ETSPJ Golden Press Card
contest
4-6: UT-TPA Press Institute and
Winter Convention, Doubletree Hotel, Nashville
16-18: Southern Classified
Advertising Managers Association Conference, Huntsville, Ala.
MARCH
2: Read Across America Day
2-6: Newspaper in Education
Week
11-12: Circulation Boot Camp,
Atlanta
13: TPA-API Workshop on
‘New’ Newsroom, MTSU,
Murfreesboro
15-21: Sunshine Week
18-20: 48th NNA Government
Affairs Conference, Westin
Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
31: Alfred P. and Julia Hill Lecture on Science, Society and
Mass Media, Shiloh Room,
8 p.m., UT University Center,
Knoxville
APRIL
1: ETSPJ April Fool Bloopers
Night
2-3: TPA Advertising/Circulation Conference, Franklin
3-4: SPJ Regions 12 and 3
Spring Conference, Little
Rock, Ark.
5-7: Newspaper Association of
America Annual Convention,
San Diego, Calif.
21-26: National Press Photographers Association Seminar
at American Press Institute,
Reston, Va.
26-29: Southern Circulation
Managers Association
Conference, The Battle
House, Mobile, Ala.
26-29: American Society of
Newspaper Editors Conference, The Fairmont Hotel,
Chicago, Ill.
30-May 2: American Copy Editors Society National Conference, Minneapolis
MAY
15: ETSPJ Golden Press Card
Awards Dinner
JUNE
17-19: TPA Summer Convention, Sheraton Read
House, Chattanooga
JULY
18: ETSPJ Front Page Follies
SEPTEMBER
16-18: SNPA Traveling Campus, Knoxville
18-20: 106th Annual SNPA
Convention, Ritz Carlton,
Naples, Fla.
23-25: SNPA Workshop for
Smaller Newspapers, Marriott City Center, Charlotte,
N.C.
OCTOBER
15-17: Institute of Newspaper
Technology, Knoxville
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The amazing shrinking page
We’re shrinking again. There’s another round
body text. Some newer fonts are more condensed
of web reduction afoot in the industry and—like it
yet still very readable. Check them out.
or not—you may not have much say about cutting
 TWEAK THE TEXT. This can be very danthe width of your pages.
gerous and must be done carefully, but you can
 As most newspapers go to a narrower page,
test your text at a bit of a smaller horizontal
that narrower paper becomes the industry stanscale. Don’t allow anything less than 95% Also,
dard—and the wider page you’re using now will
check your settings for tracking and for spacing
cost you even more than it does at present.
between words. Often, a touch here or a tweak
 Even if we reduce our page width, we can still
there may be just what you need to make the text
give our readers a quality, comfortable product.
more readable.
BY
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pecially body text.
text more comfortable to read, consider setting
DESIGN
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spaces count as one unit. In newsa focus group or two. You have
paper columns, we tend to average
nothing to lose.
closer to 30 characters per line,
 AVOID THE EASY. Reducing
already well below the optimum.
the size of your text type would
Reducing column width will bring
be the easy—but unwise—way
the average down to about 27. So,
to go. Smaller text makes your
we have some adjusting to do.
newspaper more difficult to read
 TIGHTEN UP. We could reduce
and doesn’t place the needs of
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this seems counterproductive:
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Applications for the Francis A. Henninger Grant are being accepted now.
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AP changes style on world leaders
Weeks before the change in occupancy
of the White House came a change in
the way The Associated Press addresses
world leaders on first reference. AP now
requires the full name of the leader
upon first mention in an article.
For example, it’s out with “President
Bush” on first reference and in with
“President Barack H. Obama.”
An AP release said the change was
made to adopt a more universal style.
Some European media have used full
name references for world leaders, and
AP stated it wanted consistency between
its domestic and foreign reports.
“We saw a need to standardize how we
refer to the president, especially since
the wire now services more of a global
audience,” Darrell Christian, co-editor
of the AP Stylebook, told Editor & Publisher. He noted that AP had traced the
use of leaving out the president’s first
name to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
served from 1933 to 1945.
Greeneville Sun to handle county’s distribution of News Sentinel
The Knoxville News Sentinel informed
local customers that the newspaper
would end its longstanding distribution
service in Greene County on Saturday,
Jan. 31.
The News Sentinel will continue to
be available for purchase in Greene
County, however, through an arrangement that has been worked out between
the Knoxville-based newspaper and The
Greeneville Sun, spokesmen for the two
companies said (Jan. 22).
The Greeneville Sun began distributing the News Sentinel in Greene County
beginning Sunday, Feb. 1, according
to Sun General Manager Steven K.
Harbison.
Details of the distribution arrangement were worked out between Sun
Director of Circulation Dale Long and
Knoxville News Sentinel Circulation
Director Jim Boyd.
In mid-January the News Sentinel
notified its local customers in a letter
inserted in copies of the newspaper
that its own distribution service in
Greene County would end with the
issue of Saturday, Jan. 31, although,
“Frankly, we wish the situation were
otherwise.”
In late 2008 the News Sentinel also
ended distribution of the newspaper
in Washington, Sullivan and Hawkins
counties.
Boyd explained in a statement that
“In today’s economic environment, it
just wasn’t feasible for us to maintain
the broad distribution network we’ve
had in the past.
“We believe this arrangement with
Dale and The Greeneville Sun provides a
positive outcome for all concerned—especially for those who read the News
Sentinel every day.”
In Greene County, beginning on Sunday, Feb. 1, the Knoxville newspaper was
distributed by the Sun through the regular single-copy outlets in Greeneville,
Mosheim and other parts of the county
where it is currently sold.
Home delivery is offered by the Sun in
areas of the county where it is economically feasible to do so, Harbison said.
“Dale and the Sun’s circulation staff
have worked long and hard on this
program,” he stated.
“We value their outstanding efforts
to find a way to keep the News Sentinel,
a respected and valued East Tennessee institution, available in Greene
County.”
Harbison noted that “The News Sentinel is especially popular with readers
in Greene County who are interested
in the Knoxville-area news and the extensive University of Tennessee sports
information that it provides.”
Long said that “The News Sentinel has
more than 35 single-copy locations in
our area. We hope to expand the number
of locations where people can pick up
the News Sentinel.
“In addition, we hope to offer home
delivery service to at least many of
those in this county who would like
to continue their home-delivery subscriptions.”
Long said that the News Sentinel will
be offered at single-copy locations for 75
cents per copy, Monday through Saturday, and $2 per copy on Sunday.
Home delivery will be available in
some areas, including Greeneville
itself, for $28 per month. Additional
details concerning home delivery will
be available from the Sun Circulation
Department, Long said....
In the letter inserted in copies of the
News Sentinel last weekend, the Knoxville newspaper explained to current
home-delivery customers that they
would be given a free month of access
to the News Sentinel’s e-edition: an
online replica of the printed newspaper
available on the Internet.
Instructions for accessing the e-edition were provided in the letter to
home-delivery customers.
At the end of the free month of e-edition access, if the customer wishes to
continue to have access to the e-edition
and read the newspaper’s content on the
Internet site on a seven-day-per-week basis, the customer is instructed to contact
the News Sentinel’s Customer Service
Department at 1-800-237-5821 or online at
http://newspaper.knoxnews.com.
In such cases, the letter said, the News
Sentinel plans to apply the remaining
months of the customer’s newspaper
subscription fee to the $5-per-month
cost for access to the e-edition.
If the customer does not wish to sign
up for the e-edition, the newspaper explained, the News Sentinel will refund
to the customer the unused portion of
his/her newspaper subscription fee....
(Adapted from The Greeneville
Sun, Jan. 22, 2009)
The bottom line
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo
the fatigue of supporting it.”
Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, 1777
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Grants worth thousands of dollars are
available immediately to small and
community newspapers.
The grant program
has been developed
by Ed Henninger, director of Henninger F. Henninger
Consulting and a long-standing contributor to The Tennessee Press.
The program is an effort to reach
out to publishers and editors at small
newspapers—especially those who
believe their newspapers can’t afford
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level of design, direction and distinction
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“Over the past couple of years, I have
repeatedly heard from editors and
publishers that they could not afford
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that’s not true—and this grant program
is my commitment to prove that,” Ed
Henninger said.
The Francis A. Henninger Grant Program is named for Henninger’s father,
Francis A. Henninger, who believed in
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The Tennessee Press
FEBRUARY 2009
Court records have been a staple of newsgathering
as long as I can remember, particularly for investigative reporters looking into the background of business and political leaders and various institutions
the press is expected to watch.
Unfortunately, some judges are making it increasingly difficult to get access to information filed as
part of litigation, even when the issue involves
public health and welfare. Notable examples include
nursing home safety and how financial institutions
handle your money.
Tennessee has fallen behind some other states,
but a case that recently emerged from our state
Court of Appeals offers an opportunity to regain
some ground. It’s a rare opportunity because is
would give the press, the public and the Court a
second chance to preserve and improve access to
vital information.
Court worked on problem
The state Supreme Court tried to improve the
problem of closing “judicial records” a few years
back by making it harder to seal court records. It
proposed rules and criteria for judges to follow in
balancing the public’s constitutional right to open
courts with the too-often-claimed interest of private
entities in secrecy. The practice had become so
widespread that local governments tried to use it
to keep lawsuit settlements secret.
The Court withdrew the proposal from the legislature after lobbyists for insurance companies and
the corporate bar flexed their considerable influence
in the General Assembly.
The problem: It’s almost automatic for a judge to
close records filed in civil cases if one of the parties
asks for it and the other side doesn’t object. There
are reasons, often financial, for the other side not
to object, and the press and general public do not
have a seat at the table to question decisions that
put entire case files under a protective seal.
The possibility of a second chance comes in a
case involving a fatal fire that raced through a
nursing home in late 2003. The Nashville facility
had 117 residents. The fire resulted in 16 deaths
and “countless others were injured,” resulting in
32 lawsuits, including some that alleged that action
or inaction by the local fire department may have
contributed.
sued a blanket seal on all filings (includLawyers for the nursing home
ing the court order closing all future
asked the trial judge to impose a
filings) in a paternity lawsuit against
“blanket protective order” that
singing legend Eddy Arnold. The judge
closed the entire file, including
defended his actions by saying the seal
sworn statements by investigators
would protect the good name of the late
and public regulators, things that
singer, despite the absence of such a
should have been open since these
right for deceased persons.
facilities are regulated by the govWhat’s to protect? The lawsuit is
ernment.
public and the press has already quoted
TENNESSEE
Newspaper intervened
family members as saying Arnold
Months passed and many cases COALITION
repudiated the paternity claim before
were settled through secret mediahe died. The 48-year-old California
tion before the local newspaper was FOR OPEN
man’s claim is already suspect because
forced to intervene and push for cer- GOVERNMENT he waited until after Arnold’s death
tain records to be opened. The City
to sue.
of Nashville joined The Tennessean
The Supreme Court’s once-proposed
Frank Gibson
in asking that records be unsealed,
rule would not likely have come into
arguing that disclosure would show city employ- play in the Arnold matter because the rule dealt
ees had been cleared of any wrongdoing. Sure with true public interest litigation involving issues
enough, the city was exonerated and the claims of health, safety and government transparency.
against it were dismissed.
However, the Arnold estate’s lawyer used the Court
The rules the Supreme Court proposed would of Appeals rejection in the nursing home lawsuit
have put the horse in front of the cart – the same as evidence the appeals courts here are reluctant
way the state’s highest court had done years ear- to deny record-sealing petitions.
lier when it held that criminal courtrooms (and
Assuming lawsuits are filed in state courts, I can
later juvenile courtrooms) could not be closed already see TVA using the absence of appropriate
without a hearing and a judge’s finding of good criteria to ask judges to close records in litigation
reasons to close. In both cases the public interest over the 1-billion-gallon coal sludge spill in Roane
in open courts has to be weighed.
County.
We had encouraged the state Commission on
It took the Nashville judge almost two years to
Rules of Practice and Procedure to recommend accept “protocols” on closing records in the nursthe high court adopt the rule in civil cases as ing home case – long after critical questions were
well.
raised and allowed to languish and after decisions
On appeal, the court rejected the newspaper’s were made.
request that it review the judge’s handling of
That situation is particularly troublesome in view
records issues against the rules endorsed by of recent news reports about how poorly Tennessee
the high court because “we are without author- nursing homes fare in national quality standards
ity to adopt the proposed rule or a procedure and a two-year spate of state orders blocking new
similar to it.”
admissions to nursing homes across the state.
The question now is whether the Supreme
Criteria or procedures needed
Court will accept an appeal and exercise its
Criteria need to be set and decisions on closing
powers to adopt rules already being used in information should be made before records are
criminal and juvenile courts. Open government sealed. Or, procedures need to be adopted making
advocates need to support the request.
it easier for the public and press to be heard when
Most recently, another Nashville trial judge is-
the “public interest” is at stake.
I remember a situation several years ago when
I had to go out to California to get a bootleg copy
of a deposition that showed a Nashville bank had
lent millions in a risky loan to a Las Vegas strip
casino operator. The casino operator’s deposition was filed in a federal court in Chicago, but
lawyers for the Teamsters Central States Pension
Fund had gotten the federal judge to seal it. The
copy I tracked down was made before the judge
sealed it.
After we published contents of the “judicial record,” the locally-owned bank rewrote its lending
policies and the loan officer was retired early.
While the Court of Appeals decision was not
helpful to the cause of openness, the opinion
was chock full of interesting tidbits to support
our position:
1. It said there should be “compelling reasons
to seal judicial records.”
2. The court said, “We also recognize the
newspaper’s legitimate interest in timely access
to judicial records.”
3. “Without minimizing the importance of
public access to judicial records, we must not lose
sight of the ‘primary goal’ of the judicial system,
that is, ‘providing citizens an effective truthseeking procedure for resolving their disputes
without impairing their other rights.’”
4. It quoted one legal scholar, who cited secret
settlements various Catholic churches had
reached in child molestation cases and “how
Firestone and Ford were able to hide the Ford
Explorer’s rollover problems by settling scores
of lawsuits with strict confidentiality clauses.”
He noted that parties in such cases are “able to
use secrecy as a bargaining chip during settlement negotiations,” permitting “bad actors” to
“buy secrecy from their opponents in the form
of a large settlement offer.”
FRANK GIBSON is TPA FOI coordinator and
executive director of Tennessee Coalition for
Open Government. One can contact him at
[email protected].
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‘Cornhusker’ retires after 35 years at Cleveland Daily Banner
BY GWEN SWIGER
Associate editor
Cleveland Daily Banner  
After 35 years,
Ro n Ko s e m u n d
retired Dec. 31 as
the Cleveland Daily
Banner’s advertising retail manager.
All through his career at the Banner,
Kosemund has been
Kosemund
respected for his
devotion to his work.
“I was brought up to do the job the best
you could and as quick as you could,” he
said. “That’s the way my dad worked.
He worked in munitions for the government. He had to be efficient or things
would go boom in the night.”
Kosemund was born and raised in
“cornhusker country” Nebraska.
In his senior year of high school, his
family moved to Colorado.
“I thought my world was coming to
an end,” he said. “It was more fun. I
wished we had moved sooner.”
“I was originally going to be an engineer. Then I found out engineers had to
be very proficient in math. So I switched
to journalism,” he said.
He considered going to college at
the University of Colorado, Wyoming
or Nebraska, but a buddy was going
to Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla.
Finding that Florida State had a good
journalism school, he decided to join
his buddy in Florida.
He wanted to be a copyreader and
writer.
“It was Duncan Osborne who got me
interested in ads,” Kosemund said. “I
worked on the newspaper.”
After school, Kosemund wrote “sports
for four years on the prairies of Nebraska. I worked for a tri-weekly in Sydney,
Neb. I wrote sports and sold advertisements. You do what you have to.”
“Henry J. Misenburg—Hank—got
me more interested in sales and ads,”
Kosemund said.
He noted that when the local wrestling
team won the state championship, “my
sports story made page 1.”
Since his start in newspapers, “It has
changed every way,” he said.
When he started in the newspaper
business, he worked directly with type.
“It was handset type.”
The Sydney newspaper was the first
in Nebraska to go offset. “We enlarged
the type from 10 point to 12 point. The
readers complained they could not read
the smaller type.”
Because he had the experience
working with the new offset type, the
Stouffer chain, of which the Sydney
paper was a part, transferred him to
its other newspapers to help make the
change. He was working in Kansas and
decided to stay.
Joe Albrecht, who worked with
Kosemund in Kansas, came to work
for Lee Walls.
Albrecht came “by the office one day
and wanted to know if I wanted to come
to Tennessee,” Kosemund said.
“I came to Cleveland on April 1, 1974.
The tornadoes came on April 3, 1974.
“I swear to this day I didn’t bring them
with me,” he noted with a chuckle.
“I worked with Goldie Wattenbarger
for 25 years and never had a squabble,”
he said. “Goldie was one of those people
if you did your job he left you alone.
On April 1, 1974, “Goldie said I know
you have lots to do. He told me to take
the rest of the day off. It was a joke
between us for years.
“I’d tell him ‘I really appreciated that
day off, but I did not know it was going
to be the only one I got’,” he said.
“I do a good job because I want to
see a good job done. I take pride in my
work. I rah rah myself. It has to be done
whether it takes two hours or 15,” he
explained.
“To me taking pride in work is a lost
art,” he said.
In 1953 he enlisted in the Air Force
to become a pilot. “I wanted to see the
world. I enlisted as an aviation cadet.
There was no Air Force Academy
then. They accepted me on the second
physical. I failed the third—bad varicose
veins,” he said.
He had a choice of putting in two years
or going home in the Air Force. “I didn’t
feel like going home,” he said.
Kosemund worked on air traffic control. “I was in San Antonio, then Biloxi
and was assigned to Washington, D.C. I
was on temporary duty in Denver. Nine
months later, I was transferred from
Washington to Orlando, Fla. I didn’t go
anywhere. I stayed in Denver.”
Kosemund noted he met his wife, Fay,
while going to school in Tallahassee. She
was working in a restaurant. The couple
have three children: Mary, Randall and
Ronda, who all live in Cleveland. He has
seven grandchildren.
“I’m proud of my family,” he said.
(Jan. 12, 2009)
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FEBRUARY 2009
Make source ask for off-the-record
First Amendment still vital at 217
The First Amendment marked its 217th anniversary on Dec. 15. Here’s a quick look at where our basic
freedoms stand -- starting with a free press:
As 2008 ends, most newspapers are shrinking
dramatically in size, staffing, circulation. At least
a few sizable cities have faced the possibility of having no local daily newspaper at all. Analysts predict
similar changes in local and network broadcasting
in 2009.Ironically, this “free press” vanishing act is
propelled in no small part by “free media” (as in “no
charge”). Even as the Internet and new technology
spur new and ever-more-varied methods of sending
and receiving news and information, they are helping to decimate once-lucrative business models that
supported what we now call mainstream media.In
one sense, this latest American media revolution also
is about opportunity, and a return to its individual,
locally owned, locally focused roots. In our early history the emphasis was on the opportunities of a free
press, not its size or wealth. No longer was a king’s
license required, a king’s voice the only one heard,
or a king’s wrath to be feared.Echoing that history,
an explosion of community bloggers and community
online ventures is providing commentary and some
reporting, and Yahoo, Google, America Online and
other sites are piling up regular users though they
originate little reporting of their own.
But while there’s more news and information
available, the First Amendment question of the
year—and likely for the next several
funding. In the process he challenged
years—is whether the “watchdog”
a creaky system of federal campaignrole of a free press will carry over
finance limits that some maintain
from the “dead tree” media to their
improperly limit free speech. In this
electronic progeny. Some blogs fill the
year’s State of the First Amendment
bill: Multiple sites reporting on the
national survey, support declined for
U.S. Supreme Court are an example.
limits on contributions.
But there is no new-media machinery
Social-networking sites like Faceyet in place to provide most of us with
book and MySpace spawned controexpert, year-after-year reporting and INSIDE
versies ranging from defamation flaps
tracking of courts, legislatures, police
between school administrators and
THE
departments, schools and taxes.
students to a trend involving teens’
A free press as an effective check FIRST
sending naked or semi-naked pictures
on government is what the nation’s
of themselves to friends, triggering
Founders had in mind when they AMENDMENT child-pornography charges.
provided constitutional shelter
Spurred by a teen’s suicide, Missouri
for scribes of their time and ours. Gene Policinski
lawmakers enacted a law making
Individual expression and opinion
online harassment, or “cyberbullyare vital in a democracy, but so are
ing,” a crime.
accurate information and public accountability.
Not all First Amendment challenges are elecAnd for more than two centuries, we’ve been able tronic in nature:
to expect all of that from a free press—even if
In Boston, a Rastafarian man will get his day
it cost us some coins to purchase the means of in an appeals court challenging as religious
reporting.
discrimination a Jiffy Lube company policy
New technology is creating other First Amend- requiring him to cut his hair and shave off his
ment challenges, as well:
beard. A lower court held the company had
President-elect Barack Obama’s successful a right to control its public image and that it
fundraising, with a powerful online component, did not have to exempt the employee because
attracted $750 million as he spurned public of his beliefs.
Paulson named president, COO of Newseum
Kenneth A. Paulson, editor and senior vice president
of news of USA
Today and a nationally recognized First
Amendment advocate, will become
president and chief
Paulson
operating officer of
the Newseum and the Freedom Forum
in early 2009.
Paulson, 55, succeeds Peter Prichard,
who will work on special projects for
one year before retiring. Prichard, who
will be 65 next year, was also editor of
USA Today before joining the Freedom
Forum and Newseum 12 years ago.
The change in leadership was announced by Charles L. Overby, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO)
of the Freedom Forum and CEO of the
Newseum.
“We are very pleased that Ken is returning to play a major role in shaping
the future of our organizations,” Overby
said. “He is recognized nationally as an
important leader in First Amendment
and news issues and his proven leadership qualities will help us continue to
develop and expand the reach of our
world-class museum.”
Paulson was named editor of USA
Today in April 2004. He had been executive director of the First Amendment
Center and senior vice president of the
Freedom Forum from January 1997 to
April 2004.
“I have the greatest admiration for
the staff and mission of the Newseum
and Freedom Forum, and I’m honored
to join them in this role,” Paulson said.
“It’s a rare privilege to spend every
day working to build understanding
and support for the First Amendment
and a free press, and a joy to do that
work through such an extraordinary
museum.”
Overby praised Prichard’s leadership
in overseeing the building of the Newseum. “Peter’s work at the Newseum
from conception through construction
will be seen for generations to come.
He provided important leadership
over design and construction of the
Newseum that made a difference,”
Overby said.
For the past 30 years, Paulson has
drawn on his background as both a
journalist and a lawyer, serving as the
editor or managing editor of newspapers in five different states.
He was on the team of journalists
who founded USA Today in 1982 before
moving on to manage newsrooms in
Westchester County, N.Y.; Green Bay,
Wis.; Bridgewater, N.J.; and at Florida
Today in Brevard County, Fla. He is
widely known for his efforts to inform
and educate Americans about the First
Amendment freedoms.
Paulson also was host of the Emmynominated television program “Speaking Freely,” seen in more than 60 PBS
markets nationwide over five seasons,
and he is the author of “Freedom
Sings,” a multimedia stage show
celebrating the First Amendment
that continues to tour the nation’s
campuses.
been a regular guest lecturer at the
American Press Institute, speaking
to more than 5,000 journalists about
First Amendment issues. He recently
was honored along with colleague John
Seigenthaler with the API Lifetime
Service Award.
Paulson has served on the board of the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors. He also chairs the organization’s
First Amendment committee.
In 2007, Paulson was named Fellow of
the Society of Professional Journalists,
“the highest honor SPJ bestows upon a
journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession.”
He is a graduate of the University of
Illinois College of Law and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
He has also served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School
and is a member of both the Illinois and
Florida bars.
The Newseum, located on historic
Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington,
D.C., blends five centuries of news
history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on interactive exhibits.
The world’s most interactive museum
takes visitors behind the scenes of
news and instills an appreciation of
the importance of a free press and the
First Amendment.
The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan
foundation dedicated to free press,
free speech and free spirit, is the main
funder of the Newseum’s operations.
The Newseum, while independent of
any media companies, receives additional support from foundations, media
organizations and individuals.
Refocus
“Our focus must be on becoming the
very best at filling people’s 24-hour
news needs. That’s a huge shift from the
we-know-best, gatekeeper thinking....
Readers and viewers are demanding
to captain their information ships.
Let them.”
Tom Curley
President and CEO
Associated Press, 2007
Legal fights erupted in several state courts over
vanity or specialty license plates, prompted by
individuals seeking to display creative messages or
by state-approved slogans like “In God We Trust” or
“Choose Life.”
Laws to ban picketing at military funerals were
challenged in several Midwestern courts, and a small
protest group vowed to fight criminal charges.
On a Sunday in September, pastors in as many as
22 states defied an Internal Revenue Service regulation barring direct candidate endorsement from
the pulpit under penalty of their churches’ losing
tax-exempt status.
And with the holiday season, one more First
Amendment debate is worth noting. In Washington
state, officials permitted atheists to post a message
alongside a Capitol hallway Nativity scene. That
upset some, including demonstrators who marched
around the building with protest signs, exercising
their rights of free speech, free press, assembly
and petition.
All in all, a pretty vigorous 2008 workout for a
217-year-old.
GENE POLICINSKI is vice president and executive
director of the First Amendment Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Web: www.
firstamendmentcenter.org. E-mail: [email protected].
WORTH REPEATING
‘You didn’t ask, but...’
BY CLAY MORGAN
Publisher, Macon County Times
Lafayette
First, I want to thank the oh-so-many
people who have welcomed me to town
so warmly. I have over the years served
as publisher for a couple different papers
and managing editor of yet others.
Such warm welcomes make moves
to strange new towns much easier. I
look forward to getting involved in the
community in a very service oriented
manner, and will be talking to a number
of folks around town about that.
Service.
It is why I’m in community newspapers. After moving up to “bigger” papers
for a spell, I realized that community
newspapering is where it’s at.
During my time as publisher, I view
part of my role as working to make a
community better. I’ve served in a wide
range of capacities in Chambers of
Commerce, Rotary and other volunteer
positions. I’ve been on the national board
of directors for an Olympic sport’s governing body, chairman of a hospital’s
board of directors and more.
But there is “little” service.
I challenge anyone to read Eric Carle’s
“The Grouchy Ladybug” to a class of
kindergarteners with more enthusiasm
than I do.
And there in lies the point.
If you don’t serve, if you don’t volunteer, I ask why?
Service or volunteerism certainly
can mean a substantial investment
of time. But it doesn’t have to be that
way.Reading to a kindergarten class or
participating in a career day doesn’t
The Tennessee Press
FEBRUARY 2009
take that much effort or time. Neither
does simply doing an act of kindness.
My parent’s neighborhood has often had
a number of single, elderly people. It
seems that every time we had a family
dinner, holiday meal or what not, there
were extra plates made by mom and
then taken over to these folks. It is a
small, kind gesture that makes a huge
difference to someone.
It doesn’t have to be big. Mowing a
neighbor’s grass while they are ill or
perhaps on vacation is a kind gesture
that will be appreciated. There are all
manner of small things you can do that
someone will appreciate greatly.
Of course, there is great satisfaction
to be gained too from larger volunteerism. Working at the Chamber, helping
out at the library, Relay for Life, Rotary,
historic societies, art groups or countless other organizations can lead to a
great sense of accomplishment and
helping others.
Other groups, too, if eligible, do much
for our communities. The VFW, American Legion and other groups conduct a
tremendous amount of service and their
members can always be counted on.
And let us not forget those volunteers
who spend countless hours helping
Boy and Girl Scouts, youth sports,
church youth groups and other similar
organizations.
The opportunities abound, even here
in Macon County. There are plenty of
clubs, groups and even individuals for
whom you can provide some measure of
volunteer service, big or small.
All you have to do is ask around and
step up.
And I promise to do the same.
The most maddening sound in newsrooms is
agreement.
this from a reporter: “So, can you tell me off the
Of course, the reporter’s conscience would be
record?”
clear; even before talking to Source A, the reporter
Getting information off-the-record can be useful.
had planned to check on Source B’s taxes. But
Reporters should know as much insider information
Source A would have cause to no longer trust the
as possible. Thus, unlike some journalism purists, I
reporter.
accept an occasional off-the-record discussion with
That’s the beauty of spelling out, in plain
a source.
language, what the source means by “off the reBut I object when reporters are offering the proteccord.”
tion of off the record. Make the source ask for it.
In a larger sense, the use of the off-the-record
WRITING
Reporters have too few weapons for getting sources
agreement is yet another confirmation of how weak
to give good, usable information. The reporter who COACH
we reporters are. Here’s the nightmare example.
gets the reputation for liberally offering to go off-the Sally calls Source A and has an extremely relrecord is inviting a lifetime of wimpy responses. Jim Stasiowski evant big question to ask him. After going through
Let’s start by agreeing on the unagreeable: No one
the preliminary conversation and questions, Sally
is sure what “off the record” means.
arrives at The Big One.
Even experienced, savvy reporters and editors argue about
Source A is ready. He immediately says, “Off the reit. Some journalists say that when a source goes off the record,
cord?”
what he or she is saying is usable, but only if the reporter
Uh-oh.
uses it to pursue other reporting.
Sally agrees, and Source A gives a candid, meaningful
Others – and I’m in this group – insist that “off the record”
answer.
means the reporter can do nothing with the information. In
She cannot use it. And, if Source A strictly interprets “off
other words, off-the-record information may not venture
the record,” he has just skillfully put Sally in the position
outside the reporter’s brain.
of not being able to chase that information.
An editor I worked for would explode whenever he heard a
Then, let’s say Sally and Source A go back on the record.
reporter allowing a source to go off the record. His point was
Sally, still needing an answer to The Big One, repeats the
that if journalists cannot agree about what “off the record”
question, and Source A delivers an evasive, fancy-sounding
means, we can hardly expect our sources to know.
but meaningless quotation.
He told me: “When a source asks to go ‘off the record,’ tell
At that point, Sally is stuck. She obviously cannot write
him or her to stop talking. Then ask the source to define
either, “Source A could not be reached for comment,” nor,
what he or she means by ‘off the record.’ After you know
“Source A had no comment.” Instead, Sally, who got the
what the source means, decide what to do about the source’s
truth off the record, is stuck with writing something that
request.”
misleading.
That’s sage advice. When most sources say “off the record,”
We are too quick to grant a source’s request to go off
what they really mean is: “You may use this information if you
the record, and we make matters much worse when we
can get it elsewhere, but don’t use it until you get it elsewhere,
offer that refuge. We offer it, I fear, because it’s a collegial,
and don’t tell anyone you first got it from me.”
collaborative thing to do. In short, we want our sources
According to a document from The Poynter Institute,
to like us.
The Washington Post recognizes an in-between term, “for
Our sources want us to want them to like us. For them,
guidance,” which is neither “off the record” nor “for atit beats telling the truth.
tribution.” “For guidance” means the source is giving the
THE FINAL WORD: Inexplicably, most writers love to
reporter confidential information that the reporter may
use the adjective “roughly” to mean “about”: “The county
feel free to chase.
has roughly 3,800 acres of parks.”
If “off the record” means we can do nothing with the
To me, “roughly” conveys the antithesis of the image we
information, we probably should never grant a source such
want readers to get from our newspapers. “Roughly” implies
protection.
ragged, untidy, unrefined. It seems to say we’re happy to
Let’s say we call Source A, and after exhausting his on-thesettle for being somewhere in the neighborhood of the
record help, he requests to go off the record. We agree.
truth. Choose “about” for most such instances.
He then says, “Source B had tax problems five years
ago.”
JIM STASIOWSKI, the writing coach for the Dolan Media
Now, even if we were planning to check Source B’s tax
Co., welcomes your questions or comments. Call him at
records, the off-the-record comment makes such checking
(775) 354-2872 or write to 2499 Ivory Ann Drive, Sparks, Nev.
dangerous. If the story includes Source B’s tax problems,
89436.
Source A may assert that we violated the off-the-record
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Former Tennessee newspaperman returns as publisher
Clay Morgan in
January was named
publisher of the Macon County Times,
Lafayette.
Earlier he served
a seven-year stint
as a publisher
with Granite PubMorgan
lications in Texas.
There, he most recently was publisher
of their twin weeklies, The Aransas Pass
Progress and The Ingleside Index.
Before that, he worked in Mississippi
as the managing editor of the daily
Clarksdale Press Register and city editor
for the Hattiesburg American.
Originally from Memphis, Morgan
also served as managing editor of
The Bartlett Express and the former
Cordova Beacon newspapers, located in
the Memphis suburbs, for three years
in the late 1990s.
Morgan and his staffs over the years
have won awards from the Tennessee,
Mississippi and Texas Press Associations, along with the South Texas Press
Association and the Texas Gulf Coast
Press Association, as well as the Mississippi/Louisiana Associated Press
Managing Editors Association.
“My more immediate goals are to
ensure a high level of customer service,
both to readers and advertisers, and to
make certain the paper is operating in
the most efficient manner possible,”
Morgan said.
See Worth Repeating on page 8.
Sunshine Week soon
Sunshine Week, an initiative for
dialogue about government and freedom
of information, is coming up March 15
through 21. Though spearheaded
by journalists, participants include
civic groups, libraries, schools and
non-profit organizations. Articles
and illustrations that newspapers can
use are being added to the Web site,
www.sunshineweek.org, as the week
approaches.
5
AP names capital reporter for Tennessee
Associated Press Washington regional reporter Mary Clare Jalonick
will cover Tennessee, Kentucky and
the Carolinas as part of AP’s restructuring in Washington to provide every
state regional representation. 
Jalonick began her career with Congressional Quarterly in 1998 and has
covered agriculture, the environment
and politics, including congressional
and gubernatorial elections. She joined
the AP in April 2005 as a Washington regional reporter covering North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
She earned an undergraduate degree
in political science from Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and is a native
of Dallas.
TPS thanks newspapers for contracts
Tennessee Press Service is eager to bring TPA member newspapers as
much advertising revenue as possible in 2009 and beyond. In order to
operate our advertising placement networks, as well as support other
vital services such as the statewide public notice Web site, we rely on
having a fair commission agreement in place with each TPA member
publication.
Over the past year, we have worked with publishers and ad directors
throughout the state to bring all members under a new advertising
agreement. Having these agreements in place allows us to include
your newspaper in quotes to clients and agencies, and ensures that all
newspapers support TPS in an equitable way. To date, we have agreements in place for 105 of the 128 TPA member newspapers.
TPS wishes to thank all the newspapers listed below for signing and
returning an advertising agreement. TPS directors will continue efforts
to reach out to publishers who have yet to sign an agreement so that
TPS can continue to place advertising in all TPA member newspapers.
Please help the directors to achieve this goal by contacting Greg Sherrill in the TPS Headquarters Office for a copy of your newspaper’s
advertising agreement if you have not yet completed one. Thank you
for your help!
Ashland City Times
The Daily Post-Athenian, Athens
Grainger Today, Bean Station
Polk County News, Benton
States-Graphic, Brownsville
Pickett County Press, Byrdstown
The Camden Chronicle
Carthage Courier
Citizen-Statesman, Celina
Hamilton County Herald, Chattanooga
Chattanooga Times Free Press
The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville
Cleveland Daily Banner
The Courier News, Clinton
The Daily Herald, Columbia
Herald-Citizen, Cookeville
The Collierville Herald
The Leader, Covington
Crossville Chronicle
The Herald-News Dayton
The Dickson Herald
The Stewart-Houston Times, Dover
Dresden Enterprise
The Dunlap Tribune
The Tri-City Reporter, Dyer
Elizabethton Star
The Erwin Record
The Elk Valley Times, Fayetteville
Jackson County Sentinel, Gainesboro
The Gallatin Newspaper
The Greeneville Sun
The Halls Graphic
The Harriman Record
Hartsville Vidette
Chester County Independent, Henderson
Lewis County Herald, Hohenwald
The Humboldt Chronicle
Carroll County News-Leader, Huntingdon
The Jackson Sun
Fentress Courier, Jamestown
Jasper Journal
The Standard Banner, Jefferson City
Johnson City Press
Herald and Tribune, Jonesborough
Kingsport Times-News
Roane County News, Kingston
The Knoxville Journal
News Sentinel, Knoxville
Macon County Chronicle, Lafayette
Macon County Times, Lafayette
LaFollette Press
The Lebanon Democrat
The Wilson Post, Lebanon
News-Herald, Lenoir City
Marshall County Tribune, Lewisburg
The Lexington Progress
Buffalo River Review, Linden
Livingston Enterprise
Overton County News, Livingston
The Moore County News, Lynchburg
Manchester Times
Weakley County Press, Martin
The Daily Times, Maryville
The McKenzie Banner
Southern Standard, McMinnville
The Daily News, Memphis
The Milan Mirror-Exchange
Millington Star
Citizen Tribune, Morristown
The Tomahawk, Mountain City
Mt. Juliet News
The Newport Plain Talk
The Oak Ridger
Independent Herald, Oneida
Scott County News, Oneida
The Paris Post-Intelligencer
Tennessee Star Journal, Pigeon Forge
The Bledsonian-Banner, Pikeville
The Portland Leader
The Giles Free Press, Pulaski
Pulaski Citizen
The Lauderdale County Enterprise,
Ripley
The Rockwood Times
The Rogersville Review
The Courier, Savannah
The Mountain Press, Sevierville
Shelbyville Times-Gazette
The Middle Tennessee Times, Smithville
Smithville Review
The Fayette Falcon, Somerville
South Pittsburg Hustler
The Sparta Expositor
The Mountain View, Spencer
Robertson County Times, Springfield
Monroe County Advocate & Democrat,
Sweetwater
Claiborne Progress, Tazewell
Lake County Banner, Tiptonville
Grundy County Herald, Tracy City
The Gazette, Trenton
The Tullahoma News
Morgan County News, Wartburg
The News-Democrat, Waverly
The Wayne County News, Waynesboro
The Westmoreland Observer
The Herald-Chronicle, Winchester
Cannon Courier, Woodbury
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FEBRUARY 2009
Make source ask for off-the-record
First Amendment still vital at 217
The First Amendment marked its 217th anniversary on Dec. 15. Here’s a quick look at where our basic
freedoms stand -- starting with a free press:
As 2008 ends, most newspapers are shrinking
dramatically in size, staffing, circulation. At least
a few sizable cities have faced the possibility of having no local daily newspaper at all. Analysts predict
similar changes in local and network broadcasting
in 2009.Ironically, this “free press” vanishing act is
propelled in no small part by “free media” (as in “no
charge”). Even as the Internet and new technology
spur new and ever-more-varied methods of sending
and receiving news and information, they are helping to decimate once-lucrative business models that
supported what we now call mainstream media.In
one sense, this latest American media revolution also
is about opportunity, and a return to its individual,
locally owned, locally focused roots. In our early history the emphasis was on the opportunities of a free
press, not its size or wealth. No longer was a king’s
license required, a king’s voice the only one heard,
or a king’s wrath to be feared.Echoing that history,
an explosion of community bloggers and community
online ventures is providing commentary and some
reporting, and Yahoo, Google, America Online and
other sites are piling up regular users though they
originate little reporting of their own.
But while there’s more news and information
available, the First Amendment question of the
year—and likely for the next several
funding. In the process he challenged
years—is whether the “watchdog”
a creaky system of federal campaignrole of a free press will carry over
finance limits that some maintain
from the “dead tree” media to their
improperly limit free speech. In this
electronic progeny. Some blogs fill the
year’s State of the First Amendment
bill: Multiple sites reporting on the
national survey, support declined for
U.S. Supreme Court are an example.
limits on contributions.
But there is no new-media machinery
Social-networking sites like Faceyet in place to provide most of us with
book and MySpace spawned controexpert, year-after-year reporting and INSIDE
versies ranging from defamation flaps
tracking of courts, legislatures, police
between school administrators and
THE
departments, schools and taxes.
students to a trend involving teens’
A free press as an effective check FIRST
sending naked or semi-naked pictures
on government is what the nation’s
of themselves to friends, triggering
Founders had in mind when they AMENDMENT child-pornography charges.
provided constitutional shelter
Spurred by a teen’s suicide, Missouri
for scribes of their time and ours. Gene Policinski
lawmakers enacted a law making
Individual expression and opinion
online harassment, or “cyberbullyare vital in a democracy, but so are
ing,” a crime.
accurate information and public accountability.
Not all First Amendment challenges are elecAnd for more than two centuries, we’ve been able tronic in nature:
to expect all of that from a free press—even if
In Boston, a Rastafarian man will get his day
it cost us some coins to purchase the means of in an appeals court challenging as religious
reporting.
discrimination a Jiffy Lube company policy
New technology is creating other First Amend- requiring him to cut his hair and shave off his
ment challenges, as well:
beard. A lower court held the company had
President-elect Barack Obama’s successful a right to control its public image and that it
fundraising, with a powerful online component, did not have to exempt the employee because
attracted $750 million as he spurned public of his beliefs.
Paulson named president, COO of Newseum
Kenneth A. Paulson, editor and senior vice president
of news of USA
Today and a nationally recognized First
Amendment advocate, will become
president and chief
Paulson
operating officer of
the Newseum and the Freedom Forum
in early 2009.
Paulson, 55, succeeds Peter Prichard,
who will work on special projects for
one year before retiring. Prichard, who
will be 65 next year, was also editor of
USA Today before joining the Freedom
Forum and Newseum 12 years ago.
The change in leadership was announced by Charles L. Overby, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO)
of the Freedom Forum and CEO of the
Newseum.
“We are very pleased that Ken is returning to play a major role in shaping
the future of our organizations,” Overby
said. “He is recognized nationally as an
important leader in First Amendment
and news issues and his proven leadership qualities will help us continue to
develop and expand the reach of our
world-class museum.”
Paulson was named editor of USA
Today in April 2004. He had been executive director of the First Amendment
Center and senior vice president of the
Freedom Forum from January 1997 to
April 2004.
“I have the greatest admiration for
the staff and mission of the Newseum
and Freedom Forum, and I’m honored
to join them in this role,” Paulson said.
“It’s a rare privilege to spend every
day working to build understanding
and support for the First Amendment
and a free press, and a joy to do that
work through such an extraordinary
museum.”
Overby praised Prichard’s leadership
in overseeing the building of the Newseum. “Peter’s work at the Newseum
from conception through construction
will be seen for generations to come.
He provided important leadership
over design and construction of the
Newseum that made a difference,”
Overby said.
drawn on his background as both a
journalist and a lawyer, serving as the
editor or managing editor of newspapers in five different states.
He was on the team of journalists
who founded USA Today in 1982 before
moving on to manage newsrooms in
Westchester County, N.Y.; Green Bay,
Wis.; Bridgewater, N.J.; and at Florida
Today in Brevard County, Fla. He is
widely known for his efforts to inform
and educate Americans about the First
Amendment freedoms.
Paulson also was host of the Emmynominated television program “Speaking Freely,” seen in more than 60 PBS
markets nationwide over five seasons,
and he is the author of “Freedom
Sings,” a multimedia stage show
celebrating the First Amendment
that continues to tour the nation’s
campuses.
been a regular guest lecturer at the
American Press Institute, speaking
to more than 5,000 journalists about
First Amendment issues. He recently
was honored along with colleague John
Seigenthaler with the API Lifetime
Service Award.
Paulson has served on the board of the
American Society of Newspaper Edi-
tors. He also chairs the organization’s
First Amendment committee.
In 2007, Paulson was named Fellow of
the Society of Professional Journalists,
“the highest honor SPJ bestows upon a
journalist for extraordinary contributions to the profession.”
He is a graduate of the University of
Illinois College of Law and the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
He has also served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School
and is a member of both the Illinois and
Florida bars.
The Newseum, located on historic
Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington,
D.C., blends five centuries of news
history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on interactive exhibits.
The world’s most interactive museum
takes visitors behind the scenes of
news and instills an appreciation of
the importance of a free press and the
First Amendment.
The Freedom Forum, a nonpartisan
foundation dedicated to free press,
free speech and free spirit, is the main
funder of the Newseum’s operations.
The Newseum, while independent of
any media companies, receives additional support from foundations, media
organizations and individuals.
Refocus
“Our focus must be on becoming the
very best at filling people’s 24-hour
news needs. That’s a huge shift from the
we-know-best, gatekeeper thinking....
Readers and viewers are demanding
to captain their information ships.
Let them.”
Tom Curley
President and CEO
Associated Press, 2007
Legal fights erupted in several state courts over
vanity or specialty license plates, prompted by
individuals seeking to display creative messages or
by state-approved slogans like “In God We Trust” or
“Choose Life.”
Laws to ban picketing at military funerals were
challenged in several Midwestern courts, and a small
protest group vowed to fight criminal charges.
On a Sunday in September, pastors in as many as
22 states defied an Internal Revenue Service regulation barring direct candidate endorsement from
the pulpit under penalty of their churches’ losing
tax-exempt status.
And with the holiday season, one more First
Amendment debate is worth noting. In Washington
state, officials permitted atheists to post a message
alongside a Capitol hallway Nativity scene. That
upset some, including demonstrators who marched
around the building with protest signs, exercising
their rights of free speech, free press, assembly
and petition.
All in all, a pretty vigorous 2008 workout for a
217-year-old.
GENE POLICINSKI is vice president and executive
director of the First Amendment Center, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001. Web: www.
firstamendmentcenter.org. E-mail: [email protected].
WORTH REPEATING
‘You didn’t ask, but...’
BY CLAY MORGAN
Publisher, Macon County Times
Lafayette
First, I want to thank the oh-so-many
people who have welcomed me to town
so warmly. I have over the years served
as publisher for a couple different papers
and managing editor of yet others.
Such warm welcomes make moves
to strange new towns much easier. I
look forward to getting involved in the
community in a very service oriented
manner, and will be talking to a number
of folks around town about that.
Service.
It is why I’m in community newspapers. After moving up to “bigger” papers
for a spell, I realized that community
newspapering is where it’s at.
During my time as publisher, I view
part of my role as working to make a
community better. I’ve served in a wide
range of capacities in Chambers of
Commerce, Rotary and other volunteer
positions. I’ve been on the national board
of directors for an Olympic sport’s governing body, chairman of a hospital’s
board of directors and more.
But there is “little” service.
I challenge anyone to read Eric Carle’s
“The Grouchy Ladybug” to a class of
kindergarteners with more enthusiasm
than I do.
And there in lies the point.
If you don’t serve, if you don’t volunteer, I ask why?
Service or volunteerism certainly
can mean a substantial investment
of time. But it doesn’t have to be that
way.Reading to a kindergarten class or
participating in a career day doesn’t
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FEBRUARY 2009
take that much effort or time. Neither
does simply doing an act of kindness.
My parent’s neighborhood has often had
a number of single, elderly people. It
seems that every time we had a family
dinner, holiday meal or what not, there
were extra plates made by mom and
then taken over to these folks. It is a
small, kind gesture that makes a huge
difference to someone.
It doesn’t have to be big. Mowing a
neighbor’s grass while they are ill or
perhaps on vacation is a kind gesture
that will be appreciated. There are all
manner of small things you can do that
someone will appreciate greatly.
Of course, there is great satisfaction
to be gained too from larger volunteerism. Working at the Chamber, helping
out at the library, Relay for Life, Rotary,
historic societies, art groups or countless other organizations can lead to a
great sense of accomplishment and
helping others.
Other groups, too, if eligible, do much
for our communities. The VFW, American Legion and other groups conduct a
tremendous amount of service and their
members can always be counted on.
And let us not forget those volunteers
who spend countless hours helping
Boy and Girl Scouts, youth sports,
church youth groups and other similar
organizations.
The opportunities abound, even here
in Macon County. There are plenty of
clubs, groups and even individuals for
whom you can provide some measure of
volunteer service, big or small.
All you have to do is ask around and
step up.
And I promise to do the same.
The most maddening sound in newsrooms is
agreement.
this from a reporter: “So, can you tell me off the
Of course, the reporter’s conscience would be
record?”
clear; even before talking to Source A, the reporter
Getting information off-the-record can be useful.
had planned to check on Source B’s taxes. But
Reporters should know as much insider information
Source A would have cause to no longer trust the
as possible. Thus, unlike some journalism purists, I
reporter.
accept an occasional off-the-record discussion with
That’s the beauty of spelling out, in plain
a source.
language, what the source means by “off the reBut I object when reporters are offering the proteccord.”
tion of off the record. Make the source ask for it.
In a larger sense, the use of the off-the-record
WRITING
Reporters have too few weapons for getting sources
agreement is yet another confirmation of how weak
to give good, usable information. The reporter who COACH
we reporters are. Here’s the nightmare example.
gets the reputation for liberally offering to go off-the Sally calls Source A and has an extremely relrecord is inviting a lifetime of wimpy responses. Jim Stasiowski evant big question to ask him. After going through
Let’s start by agreeing on the unagreeable: No one
the preliminary conversation and questions, Sally
is sure what “off the record” means.
arrives at The Big One.
Even experienced, savvy reporters and editors argue about
Source A is ready. He immediately says, “Off the reit. Some journalists say that when a source goes off the record,
cord?”
what he or she is saying is usable, but only if the reporter
Uh-oh.
uses it to pursue other reporting.
Sally agrees, and Source A gives a candid, meaningful
Others – and I’m in this group – insist that “off the record”
answer.
means the reporter can do nothing with the information. In
She cannot use it. And, if Source A strictly interprets “off
other words, off-the-record information may not venture
the record,” he has just skillfully put Sally in the position
outside the reporter’s brain.
of not being able to chase that information.
An editor I worked for would explode whenever he heard a
Then, let’s say Sally and Source A go back on the record.
reporter allowing a source to go off the record. His point was
Sally, still needing an answer to The Big One, repeats the
that if journalists cannot agree about what “off the record”
question, and Source A delivers an evasive, fancy-sounding
means, we can hardly expect our sources to know.
but meaningless quotation.
He told me: “When a source asks to go ‘off the record,’ tell
At that point, Sally is stuck. She obviously cannot write
him or her to stop talking. Then ask the source to define
either, “Source A could not be reached for comment,” nor,
what he or she means by ‘off the record.’ After you know
“Source A had no comment.” Instead, Sally, who got the
what the source means, decide what to do about the source’s
truth off the record, is stuck with writing something that
request.”
misleading.
That’s sage advice. When most sources say “off the record,”
We are too quick to grant a source’s request to go off
what they really mean is: “You may use this information if you
the record, and we make matters much worse when we
can get it elsewhere, but don’t use it until you get it elsewhere,
offer that refuge. We offer it, I fear, because it’s a collegial,
and don’t tell anyone you first got it from me.”
collaborative thing to do. In short, we want our sources
According to a document from The Poynter Institute,
to like us.
The Washington Post recognizes an in-between term, “for
Our sources want us to want them to like us. For them,
guidance,” which is neither “off the record” nor “for atit beats telling the truth.
tribution.” “For guidance” means the source is giving the
THE FINAL WORD: Inexplicably, most writers love to
reporter confidential information that the reporter may
use the adjective “roughly” to mean “about”: “The county
feel free to chase.
has roughly 3,800 acres of parks.”
If “off the record” means we can do nothing with the
To me, “roughly” conveys the antithesis of the image we
information, we probably should never grant a source such
want readers to get from our newspapers. “Roughly” implies
protection.
ragged, untidy, unrefined. It seems to say we’re happy to
Let’s say we call Source A, and after exhausting his on-thesettle for being somewhere in the neighborhood of the
record help, he requests to go off the record. We agree.
truth. Choose “about” for most such instances.
He then says, “Source B had tax problems five years
ago.”
JIM STASIOWSKI, the writing coach for the Dolan Media
Now, even if we were planning to check Source B’s tax
Co., welcomes your questions or comments. Call him at
records, the off-the-record comment makes such checking
(775) 354-2872 or write to 2499 Ivory Ann Drive, Sparks, Nev.
dangerous. If the story includes Source B’s tax problems,
89436.
Source A may assert that we violated the off-the-record
TRACKS
Former Tennessee newspaperman returns as publisher
Clay Morgan in
January was named
publisher of the Macon County Times,
Lafayette.
Earlier he served
a seven-year stint
as a publisher
with Granite PubMorgan
lications in Texas.
There, he most recently was publisher
of their twin weeklies, The Aransas Pass
Progress and The Ingleside Index.
Before that, he worked in Mississippi
as the managing editor of the daily
Clarksdale Press Register and city editor
for the Hattiesburg American.
Originally from Memphis, Morgan
also served as managing editor of
The Bartlett Express and the former
Cordova Beacon newspapers, located in
the Memphis suburbs, for three years
in the late 1990s.
Morgan and his staffs over the years
have won awards from the Tennessee,
Mississippi and Texas Press Associations, along with the South Texas Press
Association and the Texas Gulf Coast
Press Association, as well as the Mississippi/Louisiana Associated Press
Managing Editors Association.
“My more immediate goals are to
ensure a high level of customer service,
both to readers and advertisers, and to
make certain the paper is operating in
the most efficient manner possible,”
Morgan said.
See Worth Repeating on page 8.
Sunshine Week soon
Sunshine Week, an initiative for
dialogue about government and freedom
of information, is coming up March 15
through 21. Though spearheaded
by journalists, participants include
civic groups, libraries, schools and
non-profit organizations. Articles
and illustrations that newspapers can
use are being added to the Web site,
www.sunshineweek.org, as the week
approaches.
5
AP names capital reporter for Tennessee
Associated Press Washington regional reporter Mary Clare Jalonick
will cover Tennessee, Kentucky and
the Carolinas as part of AP’s restructuring in Washington to provide every
state regional representation. 
Jalonick began her career with Congressional Quarterly in 1998 and has
covered agriculture, the environment
and politics, including congressional
and gubernatorial elections. She joined
the AP in April 2005 as a Washington regional reporter covering North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.
She earned an undergraduate degree
in political science from Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and is a native
of Dallas.
TPS thanks newspapers for contracts
Tennessee Press Service is eager to bring TPA member newspapers as
much advertising revenue as possible in 2009 and beyond. In order to
operate our advertising placement networks, as well as support other
vital services such as the statewide public notice Web site, we rely on
having a fair commission agreement in place with each TPA member
publication.
Over the past year, we have worked with publishers and ad directors
throughout the state to bring all members under a new advertising
agreement. Having these agreements in place allows us to include
your newspaper in quotes to clients and agencies, and ensures that all
newspapers support TPS in an equitable way. To date, we have agreements in place for 105 of the 128 TPA member newspapers.
TPS wishes to thank all the newspapers listed below for signing and
returning an advertising agreement. TPS directors will continue efforts
to reach out to publishers who have yet to sign an agreement so that
TPS can continue to place advertising in all TPA member newspapers.
Please help the directors to achieve this goal by contacting Greg Sherrill in the TPS Headquarters Office for a copy of your newspaper’s
advertising agreement if you have not yet completed one. Thank you
for your help!
Ashland City Times
The Daily Post-Athenian, Athens
Grainger Today, Bean Station
Polk County News, Benton
States-Graphic, Brownsville
Pickett County Press, Byrdstown
The Camden Chronicle
Carthage Courier
Citizen-Statesman, Celina
Hamilton County Herald, Chattanooga
Chattanooga Times Free Press
The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville
Cleveland Daily Banner
The Courier News, Clinton
The Daily Herald, Columbia
Herald-Citizen, Cookeville
The Collierville Herald
The Leader, Covington
Crossville Chronicle
The Herald-News Dayton
The Dickson Herald
The Stewart-Houston Times, Dover
Dresden Enterprise
The Dunlap Tribune
The Tri-City Reporter, Dyer
Elizabethton Star
The Erwin Record
The Elk Valley Times, Fayetteville
Jackson County Sentinel, Gainesboro
The Gallatin Newspaper
The Greeneville Sun
The Halls Graphic
The Harriman Record
Hartsville Vidette
Chester County Independent, Henderson
Lewis County Herald, Hohenwald
The Humboldt Chronicle
Carroll County News-Leader, Huntingdon
The Jackson Sun
Fentress Courier, Jamestown
Jasper Journal
The Standard Banner, Jefferson City
Johnson City Press
Herald and Tribune, Jonesborough
Kingsport Times-News
Roane County News, Kingston
The Knoxville Journal
News Sentinel, Knoxville
Macon County Chronicle, Lafayette
Macon County Times, Lafayette
LaFollette Press
The Lebanon Democrat
The Wilson Post, Lebanon
News-Herald, Lenoir City
Marshall County Tribune, Lewisburg
The Lexington Progress
Buffalo River Review, Linden
Livingston Enterprise
Overton County News, Livingston
The Moore County News, Lynchburg
Manchester Times
Weakley County Press, Martin
The Daily Times, Maryville
The McKenzie Banner
Southern Standard, McMinnville
The Daily News, Memphis
The Milan Mirror-Exchange
Millington Star
Citizen Tribune, Morristown
The Tomahawk, Mountain City
Mt. Juliet News
The Newport Plain Talk
The Oak Ridger
Independent Herald, Oneida
Scott County News, Oneida
The Paris Post-Intelligencer
Tennessee Star Journal, Pigeon Forge
The Bledsonian-Banner, Pikeville
The Portland Leader
The Giles Free Press, Pulaski
Pulaski Citizen
The Lauderdale County Enterprise,
Ripley
The Rockwood Times
The Rogersville Review
The Courier, Savannah
The Mountain Press, Sevierville
Shelbyville Times-Gazette
The Middle Tennessee Times, Smithville
Smithville Review
The Fayette Falcon, Somerville
South Pittsburg Hustler
The Sparta Expositor
The Mountain View, Spencer
Robertson County Times, Springfield
Monroe County Advocate & Democrat,
Sweetwater
Claiborne Progress, Tazewell
Lake County Banner, Tiptonville
Grundy County Herald, Tracy City
The Gazette, Trenton
The Tullahoma News
Morgan County News, Wartburg
The News-Democrat, Waverly
The Wayne County News, Waynesboro
The Westmoreland Observer
The Herald-Chronicle, Winchester
Cannon Courier, Woodbury
The Tennessee Press
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The amazing shrinking page
We’re shrinking again. There’s another round
body text. Some newer fonts are more condensed
of web reduction afoot in the industry and—like it
yet still very readable. Check them out.
or not—you may not have much say about cutting
 TWEAK THE TEXT. This can be very danthe width of your pages.
gerous and must be done carefully, but you can
 As most newspapers go to a narrower page,
test your text at a bit of a smaller horizontal
that narrower paper becomes the industry stanscale. Don’t allow anything less than 95% Also,
dard—and the wider page you’re using now will
check your settings for tracking and for spacing
cost you even more than it does at present.
between words. Often, a touch here or a tweak
 Even if we reduce our page width, we can still
there may be just what you need to make the text
give our readers a quality, comfortable product.
more readable.
BY
The key lies in strong attention to typography—es THINK THE UNTHINKABLE. To make your
pecially body text.
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we have some adjusting to do.
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this seems counterproductive:
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AP changes style on world leaders
Weeks before the change in occupancy
of the White House came a change in
the way The Associated Press addresses
world leaders on first reference. AP now
requires the full name of the leader
upon first mention in an article.
For example, it’s out with “President
Bush” on first reference and in with
“President Barack H. Obama.”
An AP release said the change was
made to adopt a more universal style.
Some European media have used full
name references for world leaders, and
AP stated it wanted consistency between
its domestic and foreign reports.
“We saw a need to standardize how we
refer to the president, especially since
the wire now services more of a global
audience,” Darrell Christian, co-editor
of the AP Stylebook, told Editor & Publisher. He noted that AP had traced the
use of leaving out the president’s first
name to Franklin D. Roosevelt, who
served from 1933 to 1945.
Greeneville Sun to handle county’s distribution of News Sentinel
The Knoxville News Sentinel informed
local customers that the newspaper
would end its longstanding distribution
service in Greene County on Saturday,
Jan. 31.
The News Sentinel will continue to
be available for purchase in Greene
County, however, through an arrangement that has been worked out between
the Knoxville-based newspaper and The
Greeneville Sun, spokesmen for the two
companies said (Jan. 22).
The Greeneville Sun began distributing the News Sentinel in Greene County
beginning Sunday, Feb. 1, according
to Sun General Manager Steven K.
Harbison.
Details of the distribution arrangement were worked out between Sun
Director of Circulation Dale Long and
Knoxville News Sentinel Circulation
Director Jim Boyd.
In mid-January the News Sentinel
notified its local customers in a letter
inserted in copies of the newspaper
that its own distribution service in
Greene County would end with the
issue of Saturday, Jan. 31, although,
“Frankly, we wish the situation were
otherwise.”
In late 2008 the News Sentinel also
ended distribution of the newspaper
in Washington, Sullivan and Hawkins
counties.
Boyd explained in a statement that
“In today’s economic environment, it
just wasn’t feasible for us to maintain
the broad distribution network we’ve
had in the past.
“We believe this arrangement with
Dale and The Greeneville Sun provides a
positive outcome for all concerned—especially for those who read the News
Sentinel every day.”
In Greene County, beginning on Sunday, Feb. 1, the Knoxville newspaper was
distributed by the Sun through the regular single-copy outlets in Greeneville,
Mosheim and other parts of the county
where it is currently sold.
Home delivery is offered by the Sun in
areas of the county where it is economically feasible to do so, Harbison said.
“Dale and the Sun’s circulation staff
have worked long and hard on this
program,” he stated.
“We value their outstanding efforts
to find a way to keep the News Sentinel,
a respected and valued East Tennessee institution, available in Greene
County.”
Harbison noted that “The News Sentinel is especially popular with readers
in Greene County who are interested
in the Knoxville-area news and the extensive University of Tennessee sports
information that it provides.”
Long said that “The News Sentinel has
more than 35 single-copy locations in
our area. We hope to expand the number
of locations where people can pick up
the News Sentinel.
“In addition, we hope to offer home
delivery service to at least many of
those in this county who would like
to continue their home-delivery subscriptions.”
Long said that the News Sentinel will
be offered at single-copy locations for 75
cents per copy, Monday through Saturday, and $2 per copy on Sunday.
Home delivery will be available in
some areas, including Greeneville
itself, for $28 per month. Additional
details concerning home delivery will
be available from the Sun Circulation
Department, Long said....
In the letter inserted in copies of the
News Sentinel last weekend, the Knoxville newspaper explained to current
home-delivery customers that they
would be given a free month of access
to the News Sentinel’s e-edition: an
online replica of the printed newspaper
available on the Internet.
Instructions for accessing the e-edition were provided in the letter to
home-delivery customers.
At the end of the free month of e-edition access, if the customer wishes to
continue to have access to the e-edition
and read the newspaper’s content on the
Internet site on a seven-day-per-week basis, the customer is instructed to contact
the News Sentinel’s Customer Service
Department at 1-800-237-5821 or online at
http://newspaper.knoxnews.com.
In such cases, the letter said, the News
Sentinel plans to apply the remaining
months of the customer’s newspaper
subscription fee to the $5-per-month
cost for access to the e-edition.
If the customer does not wish to sign
up for the e-edition, the newspaper explained, the News Sentinel will refund
to the customer the unused portion of
his/her newspaper subscription fee....
(Adapted from The Greeneville
Sun, Jan. 22, 2009)
The bottom line
“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo
the fatigue of supporting it.”
Thomas Paine, pamphleteer, 1777
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Case may help with access to litigation records
Henninger design grants worth
thousands available now
Grants worth thousands of dollars are
available immediately to small and
community newspapers.
The grant program
has been developed
by Ed Henninger, director of Henninger F. Henninger
Consulting and a long-standing contributor to The Tennessee Press.
The program is an effort to reach
out to publishers and editors at small
newspapers—especially those who
believe their newspapers can’t afford
professional design assistance. Ultimately, the objective is to bring a new
level of design, direction and distinction
to those papers that qualify.
“Over the past couple of years, I have
repeatedly heard from editors and
publishers that they could not afford
design help for their newspapers. I know
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The Francis A. Henninger Grant Program is named for Henninger’s father,
Francis A. Henninger, who believed in
hard work, commitment to family and
giving to others without any desire for
The Tennessee Press
FEBRUARY 2009
Court records have been a staple of newsgathering
as long as I can remember, particularly for investigative reporters looking into the background of business and political leaders and various institutions
the press is expected to watch.
Unfortunately, some judges are making it increasingly difficult to get access to information filed as
part of litigation, even when the issue involves
public health and welfare. Notable examples include
nursing home safety and how financial institutions
handle your money.
Tennessee has fallen behind some other states,
but a case that recently emerged from our state
Court of Appeals offers an opportunity to regain
some ground. It’s a rare opportunity because is
would give the press, the public and the Court a
second chance to preserve and improve access to
vital information.
Court worked on problem
The state Supreme Court tried to improve the
problem of closing “judicial records” a few years
back by making it harder to seal court records. It
proposed rules and criteria for judges to follow in
balancing the public’s constitutional right to open
courts with the too-often-claimed interest of private
entities in secrecy. The practice had become so
widespread that local governments tried to use it
to keep lawsuit settlements secret.
The Court withdrew the proposal from the legislature after lobbyists for insurance companies and
the corporate bar flexed their considerable influence
in the General Assembly.
The problem: It’s almost automatic for a judge to
close records filed in civil cases if one of the parties
asks for it and the other side doesn’t object. There
are reasons, often financial, for the other side not
to object, and the press and general public do not
have a seat at the table to question decisions that
put entire case files under a protective seal.
The possibility of a second chance comes in a
case involving a fatal fire that raced through a
nursing home in late 2003. The Nashville facility
had 117 residents. The fire resulted in 16 deaths
and “countless others were injured,” resulting in
32 lawsuits, including some that alleged that action
or inaction by the local fire department may have
contributed.
sued a blanket seal on all filings (includLawyers for the nursing home
ing the court order closing all future
asked the trial judge to impose a
filings) in a paternity lawsuit against
“blanket protective order” that
singing legend Eddy Arnold. The judge
closed the entire file, including
defended his actions by saying the seal
sworn statements by investigators
would protect the good name of the late
and public regulators, things that
singer, despite the absence of such a
should have been open since these
right for deceased persons.
facilities are regulated by the govWhat’s to protect? The lawsuit is
ernment.
public and the press has already quoted
TENNESSEE
Newspaper intervened
family members as saying Arnold
Months passed and many cases COALITION
repudiated the paternity claim before
were settled through secret mediahe died. The 48-year-old California
tion before the local newspaper was FOR OPEN
man’s claim is already suspect because
forced to intervene and push for cer- GOVERNMENT he waited until after Arnold’s death
tain records to be opened. The City
to sue.
of Nashville joined The Tennessean
The Supreme Court’s once-proposed
Frank Gibson
in asking that records be unsealed,
rule would not likely have come into
arguing that disclosure would show city employ- play in the Arnold matter because the rule dealt
ees had been cleared of any wrongdoing. Sure with true public interest litigation involving issues
enough, the city was exonerated and the claims of health, safety and government transparency.
against it were dismissed.
However, the Arnold estate’s lawyer used the Court
The rules the Supreme Court proposed would of Appeals rejection in the nursing home lawsuit
have put the horse in front of the cart – the same as evidence the appeals courts here are reluctant
way the state’s highest court had done years ear- to deny record-sealing petitions.
lier when it held that criminal courtrooms (and
Assuming lawsuits are filed in state courts, I can
later juvenile courtrooms) could not be closed already see TVA using the absence of appropriate
without a hearing and a judge’s finding of good criteria to ask judges to close records in litigation
reasons to close. In both cases the public interest over the 1-billion-gallon coal sludge spill in Roane
in open courts has to be weighed.
County.
We had encouraged the state Commission on
It took the Nashville judge almost two years to
Rules of Practice and Procedure to recommend accept “protocols” on closing records in the nursthe high court adopt the rule in civil cases as ing home case – long after critical questions were
well.
raised and allowed to languish and after decisions
On appeal, the court rejected the newspaper’s were made.
request that it review the judge’s handling of
That situation is particularly troublesome in view
records issues against the rules endorsed by of recent news reports about how poorly Tennessee
the high court because “we are without author- nursing homes fare in national quality standards
ity to adopt the proposed rule or a procedure and a two-year spate of state orders blocking new
similar to it.”
admissions to nursing homes across the state.
The question now is whether the Supreme
Criteria or procedures needed
Court will accept an appeal and exercise its
Criteria need to be set and decisions on closing
powers to adopt rules already being used in information should be made before records are
criminal and juvenile courts. Open government sealed. Or, procedures need to be adopted making
advocates need to support the request.
it easier for the public and press to be heard when
Most recently, another Nashville trial judge is-
the “public interest” is at stake.
I remember a situation several years ago when
I had to go out to California to get a bootleg copy
of a deposition that showed a Nashville bank had
lent millions in a risky loan to a Las Vegas strip
casino operator. The casino operator’s deposition was filed in a federal court in Chicago, but
lawyers for the Teamsters Central States Pension
Fund had gotten the federal judge to seal it. The
copy I tracked down was made before the judge
sealed it.
After we published contents of the “judicial record,” the locally-owned bank rewrote its lending
policies and the loan officer was retired early.
While the Court of Appeals decision was not
helpful to the cause of openness, the opinion
was chock full of interesting tidbits to support
our position:
1. It said there should be “compelling reasons
to seal judicial records.”
2. The court said, “We also recognize the
newspaper’s legitimate interest in timely access
to judicial records.”
3. “Without minimizing the importance of
public access to judicial records, we must not lose
sight of the ‘primary goal’ of the judicial system,
that is, ‘providing citizens an effective truthseeking procedure for resolving their disputes
without impairing their other rights.’”
4. It quoted one legal scholar, who cited secret
settlements various Catholic churches had
reached in child molestation cases and “how
Firestone and Ford were able to hide the Ford
Explorer’s rollover problems by settling scores
of lawsuits with strict confidentiality clauses.”
He noted that parties in such cases are “able to
use secrecy as a bargaining chip during settlement negotiations,” permitting “bad actors” to
“buy secrecy from their opponents in the form
of a large settlement offer.”
FRANK GIBSON is TPA FOI coordinator and
executive director of Tennessee Coalition for
Open Government. One can contact him at
[email protected].
TRACKS
‘Cornhusker’ retires after 35 years at Cleveland Daily Banner
BY GWEN SWIGER
Associate editor
Cleveland Daily Banner  
After 35 years,
Ro n Ko s e m u n d
retired Dec. 31 as
the Cleveland Daily
Banner’s advertising retail manager.
All through his career at the Banner,
Kosemund has been
Kosemund
respected for his
devotion to his work.
“I was brought up to do the job the best
you could and as quick as you could,” he
said. “That’s the way my dad worked.
He worked in munitions for the government. He had to be efficient or things
would go boom in the night.”
Kosemund was born and raised in
“cornhusker country” Nebraska.
In his senior year of high school, his
family moved to Colorado.
“I thought my world was coming to
an end,” he said. “It was more fun. I
wished we had moved sooner.”
“I was originally going to be an engineer. Then I found out engineers had to
be very proficient in math. So I switched
to journalism,” he said.
He considered going to college at
the University of Colorado, Wyoming
or Nebraska, but a buddy was going
to Florida State in Tallahassee, Fla.
Finding that Florida State had a good
journalism school, he decided to join
his buddy in Florida.
He wanted to be a copyreader and
writer.
“It was Duncan Osborne who got me
interested in ads,” Kosemund said. “I
worked on the newspaper.”
After school, Kosemund wrote “sports
for four years on the prairies of Nebraska. I worked for a tri-weekly in Sydney,
Neb. I wrote sports and sold advertisements. You do what you have to.”
“Henry J. Misenburg—Hank—got
me more interested in sales and ads,”
Kosemund said.
He noted that when the local wrestling
team won the state championship, “my
sports story made page 1.”
Since his start in newspapers, “It has
changed every way,” he said.
When he started in the newspaper
business, he worked directly with type.
“It was handset type.”
The Sydney newspaper was the first
in Nebraska to go offset. “We enlarged
the type from 10 point to 12 point. The
readers complained they could not read
the smaller type.”
Because he had the experience
working with the new offset type, the
Stouffer chain, of which the Sydney
paper was a part, transferred him to
its other newspapers to help make the
change. He was working in Kansas and
decided to stay.
Joe Albrecht, who worked with
Kosemund in Kansas, came to work
for Lee Walls.
Albrecht came “by the office one day
and wanted to know if I wanted to come
to Tennessee,” Kosemund said.
“I came to Cleveland on April 1, 1974.
The tornadoes came on April 3, 1974.
“I swear to this day I didn’t bring them
with me,” he noted with a chuckle.
“I worked with Goldie Wattenbarger
for 25 years and never had a squabble,”
he said. “Goldie was one of those people
if you did your job he left you alone.
On April 1, 1974, “Goldie said I know
you have lots to do. He told me to take
the rest of the day off. It was a joke
between us for years.
“I’d tell him ‘I really appreciated that
day off, but I did not know it was going
to be the only one I got’,” he said.
“I do a good job because I want to
see a good job done. I take pride in my
work. I rah rah myself. It has to be done
whether it takes two hours or 15,” he
explained.
“To me taking pride in work is a lost
art,” he said.
In 1953 he enlisted in the Air Force
to become a pilot. “I wanted to see the
world. I enlisted as an aviation cadet.
There was no Air Force Academy
then. They accepted me on the second
physical. I failed the third—bad varicose
veins,” he said.
He had a choice of putting in two years
or going home in the Air Force. “I didn’t
feel like going home,” he said.
Kosemund worked on air traffic control. “I was in San Antonio, then Biloxi
and was assigned to Washington, D.C. I
was on temporary duty in Denver. Nine
months later, I was transferred from
Washington to Orlando, Fla. I didn’t go
anywhere. I stayed in Denver.”
Kosemund noted he met his wife, Fay,
while going to school in Tallahassee. She
was working in a restaurant. The couple
have three children: Mary, Randall and
Ronda, who all live in Cleveland. He has
seven grandchildren.
“I’m proud of my family,” he said.
(Jan. 12, 2009)
The Tennessee Press
10
FEBRUARY 2009
Perspective on asking for the order
Chase was talking to me about selling. “Ever
since I started my sales career, I’ve heard that it’s
important to ask for the order. Most of the sales
books I’ve read—and most of the sales seminars
I’ve attended—preach that successful sales people
always ask their prospects to buy. In fact, I wouldn’t
be surprised if ‘ask for the order’ is the most frequently quoted sales principle in the world.
“I used to buy into that philosophy hook, line and
sinker. But through my years of selling advertising, I’ve come around to a different point of view.
Without a doubt, questions are key elements in the
sales process. It’s crucial to ask relevant questions
during the exploratory part of a sales call. We
have to ask questions—and listen intently to the
responses—as we get to know our prospects and
the problems they face in business. We have to
stay in step with their thought process, and ask
how they see our paper as a viable solution
to the table.
to their marketing needs. But when it comes
Salesperson: When would you like to sign
to closing, I’ve learned that a directive can
the contract to get things started?
work better than a question.”
Prospect: Just leave the information with
Chase has a good point. When a salesme, and I’ll let you know.
person has done a good job of identifying
What just happened? The salesperson
needs and solutions, answering objections
has asked for the order, but the prospect
and demonstrating the value of purchashas backed away. Here’s how a different
ing, why in the world should he or she ask
ending could have produced a more posifor anything? Just come right out and tell
tive result:
them what to do (diplomatically, of course).
Salesperson: In our meeting today, we’ve
For example:
Salesperson: In our meeting today, we’ve John Foust you want to target, and that our creative
you want to target and that our creative
Prospect: Yes, I think The Gazette brings
a lot to the table.
Prospect: Yes, I think The Gazette brings a lot
Salesperson: That’s great news. Since this is a
TnNET: Enrollment begins
FROM PAGE ONE
prime time for your business, I know you want
to get results from your advertising as quickly
as possible. Just put your autograph on this
agreement, and we’ll get things started.
Prospect: Sounds good. Where do I sign?
See the difference? By asking permission in
the first example, the salesperson has given
the prospect a reason to delay the decision. The
second example provides a clear action step. It
says “do this” instead of “will you do this?”
“The secret,” Chase concluded, “is to build a
strong case for your product, get agreement, then
just tell them what they need to do next.”
© Copyright 2009 by John Foust. All rights reserved.
JOHN FOUST can provide information
about his training videos for ad departments:
[email protected].
Preserving newspaper mementos: tips for safe storage
BY SHARON SHAHID
Senior Web editor
The Newseum, Washington, D.C.
Just as his historic election as the
first African-American president of the
United States prompted a nationwide
run on newspapers, President Barack
H. Obama’s inauguration on Jan. 20
forced publishers to print extra editions
of the event to keep up with public
demand. The challenge now for new
collectors is to guarantee a long shelf
life for their precious mementos.
The Newseum’s curatorial department preserves more than 35,000
historic newspapers and periodicals
in its collection — some dating back to
1526 — and knows a thing or two about
how to make sure these newspapers
are protected for years to come. Here
are answers to the frequently asked
questions our curators received in the
aftermath of Election Day.
How do I make sure my newspaper
stays in good condition?
The most important safety tip is to
make sure the newspapers are not exposed to light. Light damage is cumulative and irreversible. Avoid handling the
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newspaper as much as possible.
Will plastic wrap protect my newspaper?
No, not home or kitchen wrap. We
recommend three ways to preserve
your newspaper.
• Store the newspaper in an acid-free
“buffered” archival folder — also called
a map/print folder because of its size.
Today’s newspapers contain acidic wood
pulp; buffering agents help slow their
deterioration. Buy an archival folder
large enough to store the newspaper
unfolded and flat. Storing newspapers
folded will result in eventual separation
at the fold due to stress.
• Place the newspaper in Melinex — a
clear, stiff, inert polyester that acts as a
support for paper materials. We suggest
Melinex that is sealed on one long side.
For extra protection, put the Melinexsealed newspaper in an archival folder.
Some suppliers offer archival folders
with a Melinex cover already inside.
• Put the newspaper in coated or
uncoated acid-free newspaper boxes,
preferably buffered, and large enough
to store the newspaper flat. Coated boxes
are more expensive, since they have a
water-resistant finish.
Where can I buy Melinex, archival
folders or newspaper boxes?
These products are not readily available in stores and can be purchased
online through archival suppliers such
as Gaylord Brothers, Light Impressions,
Archival Methods, and Hollinger/Metal
Edge. The products are expensive, but
they will ensure that your newspaper is
protected for a very long time.
Where should I store my newspaper?
The storage environment for newspapers should be moderate, without
extreme fluctuations in temperature
and humidity. Closet shelves are a good
home option for storing newspapers.
Attics and basements are less than
ideal spaces for archival materials
because of temperature and humidity
variations.
Can I keep the newspaper with other
collectibles?
SEE PRESERVE, PAGE 11
will be available to current ROP and
network advertisers.
Newspapers have the option of accepting one of the two network ad sizes,
IAB medium rectangle 300 x 250 pixel
(recommended) or 180 x 300 pixel. Newspapers can select the size that works best
with their Web sites. However, the IAB
standard size is more likely to be used
by advertisers, and for this reason we
recommend its use.
In December, TPS held a contest to
name the online advertising network.
Congratulations to Ward Phillips at
The News-Democrat in Waverly for
submitting the winning entry.
Kevin Slimp took the new name, “TnNET,” and created a logo. Please see the
ad on page 7.
TnNET will be the easiest network
yet in which your newspaper can participate and make money. Simply go to
www.tnpress.com. Click on the TnNET
ad to register. The network is scheduled
to go live March 15, so enroll today.
As always, TPS is here to serve you,
so please contact us with any questions
about TnNET or the enrollment form,
865-584-5761 ext. 117 or belliott@tnpress.
com.
TPA co-sponsoring workshop
Tennessee Press Association (TPA) is
co-sponsoring a one-day workshop on
the “new” newsroom on Friday, March
13, at Middle Tennessee State University
in Murfreesboro. The other sponsor is
the American Press Institute, based in
Reston, Va.
The one-day program will provide an
overview of how newspaper newsrooms
are reorganizing, creating new job descriptions and delivering news across
multiple platforms 24/7.
Who should attend? Executive editors, managing editors, associate and
assistant managing editors, and senior
editors as well as those charged with
newsroom reorganization for a print
and digital world.
 Hours of the workshop are 9 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. It will be held in Room 104 at
the John Bragg Mass Communication
Building.
 Tuition is $195 a person. Members
of TPA are eligible for a 10 percent
discount.
 To receive the discount, attendees need
to type in “TPA” in the box labeled “Promotional Code” near the end of the online
registration form. Discounts are available
only at the time of online registration and
payment and are not available retroactively. Tuition is non-refundable.
 For complete program information
and to register, go to www.americanpressinstitute.org/09/NewNewsroomTennessee.
If one has questions, he or she can
contact API registrar Melanie Grachan
at mgrachan@americanpressinstitute.
org or (703) 715-3307.
Circulation Boot Camp next month
Anderson, Randles & Associates
announced it will conduct its 16th
Newspaper Circulation Bootcamp
Wednesday and Thursday, March 11-12,
in Atlanta, Ga. 
This program is ideal for publishers,
general managers, new circulation
directors, editors, financial managers
and mid-level and future circulation
directors.  It is for executives who
want to understand what a circulation department should be doing to be
successful in 2009 and beyond, despite
challenging economic conditions. See
details at www.andersonrandles.com
for program details, or call Phil Hanna
at (770) 252-5900 or Don Michel at (319)
390-9288. 
SCMA conference scheduled
The Southern Circulation Managers
Association has scheduled its conference
for Sunday through Wednesday, April
26-29, at The Battle House in Mobile,
Ala.
Tennesseans have long been active
in the group. Currently, Jim Boyd, the
News Sentinel, Knoxville, is second
vice president, while Glen Tabor of
the Kingsport Times-News is treasurer,
and Dale Long, The Greeneville Sun, is
director at large.
Kudos
In memory of
Kathryn Craddock,
Publisher of
The Courier, Savannah,
by
Joe and Connie Albrecht,
Albrecht Consulting,
Cookeville
Kudos to Doug Horne of Republic
Newspapers, Knoxville, who submitted the first registration for the 2009
Winter Convention. It arrived at the
TPA offices on Dec. 12.
Kudos also to Robertson County
Times, Springfield, who was the first
to turn in entries for the Advertising/
Circulation Ideas Contest. They arrived Jan. 5.
Kudos to Bristol Herald Courier for
submitting the first entries in the UTTPA State Press Contests. They arrived Jan. 14.
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NNA Government Affairs
Conference set in March
A chance to see a new administration
in action is a benefit of the National
Newspaper Association 48th Annual
Government Affairs Conference. It is
set Wednesday through Friday, March
18-20, with headquarters at the Westin
Washington D.C. City Center Hotel.
Just two months after the inauguration of President Barack H. Obama,
attendees will see some of how the
government is shaping up.
The schedule allows time for NNAers
to invite their congressmen to lunch and
to visit newly- and re-elected officials
and key staff members as well as hear
newsmakers talk about their views on
topics such as the economy.
On tap is a tour of the Newseum, and
NNA has requested a press briefing at
the White House.
The first GAC event will be a Friends
of NNA reception on Wednesday at the
Westin, and the conference will end with
an optional evening event Friday.
The registration rate for NNA members is $390.
One can call the Westin at 1-888-6279035 to make a reservation. One should
ask for the NNA conference rate of $235
plus tax, which is available through
Feb. 20.
Following is the tentative agenda.
Wednesday, March 18
6-7 p.m. Friends Reception in the
Westin Hotel
7 p.m. Dinner on your own
Thursday, March 19
Morning Speakers and issues briefings
11:30 a.m. Congressional luncheon at
Library of Congress
1-5 p.m. Hill visits
Evening Optional event in town
Friday, March 20
7:30 a.m. Briefings, USPS at L’Enfant
Plaza
10 a.m.noon
Newseum tour
12:30 p.m. Luncheon with speaker,
Westin
2:45 p.m. Press briefing and tour
5:30 p.m. Closing reception, dinner
on own
7:30 p.m. Optional event
AP lifts ban on military photos 
The Associated Press lifted its suspension on the use of photos provided by
the U.S. military after the Pentagon
assured the news cooperative that it
would avoid distributing altered images
to the news media. The AP also has
strengthened its internal procedures
for ensuring the integrity of photos
from outside sources.
The temporary ban was imposed after
the Army released a digitally manipulated photo of the U.S. military’s first
female four-star general. The photo of
Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody was the second
Army-provided photo the AP eliminated
from its service in (recent) months.
Santiago Lyon, the AP’s director of
photography, said he spoke with Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell, who
told him the military branches would
be reminded of a Defense Department
instruction that prohibits making
changes to images if doing so misrepresents the facts or the circumstances
of an event. The instruction does not
bar cropping, editing or enlarging a
photo to improve its quality. An image
can also be changed for security or
privacy reasons.
Read more at www.ap.org/pages/
about/whatsnew/wn_112108c.html.
(From www.ap.org/tennessee)
Hill lecture scheduled March 31
The annual Alfred and Julia Hill
Lecture on Science, Society and the
Mass Media has been scheduled for 8
p.m. Tuesday, March 31, in the Shiloh
Room of the University of Tennessee
University Center in Knoxville.
The speaker will be Tom Siegfried,
award-winning science writer and editor
in chief of Science News magazine.
His topic will be “Odds Are, It’s
Wrong—The Misuse of Science, Medicine and the Media.”
The lecture is sponsored by the UT
School of Journalism and Electronic
Media, the East Tennessee Society
of Professional Journalists and the
Society for Technical Communication,
East Tennessee Chapter.
The Hills were the founders and publishers of The Oak Ridger, Oak Ridge.
CLIPS
The Jones family of Shelbyville now
has five members. Gina and Hugh Jones
welcomed Matthew Edward Jones into
the world on Sunday morning, Jan. 4.
“Matthew and Gina are...well, healthy
and happy!” reported Hugh. Siblings
Anna and Andrew, who have attended
TPA conventions with their parents,
were wearing “I’m the big sister” and
“I’m the big brother” shirts, he said.
Hugh Jones is publisher of the Shelbyville Times-Gazette and the Marshall
County Tribune, Lewisburg.
FORESIGHT
2009
FEBRUARY
2: Deadline for entering ETSPJ Golden Press Card
contest
4-6: UT-TPA Press Institute and
Winter Convention, Doubletree Hotel, Nashville
16-18: Southern Classified
Advertising Managers Association Conference, Huntsville, Ala.
MARCH
2: Read Across America Day
2-6: Newspaper in Education
Week
11-12: Circulation Boot Camp,
Atlanta
13: TPA-API Workshop on
‘New’ Newsroom, MTSU,
Murfreesboro
15-21: Sunshine Week
18-20: 48th NNA Government
Affairs Conference, Westin
Washington Hotel, Washington, D.C.
31: Alfred P. and Julia Hill Lecture on Science, Society and
Mass Media, Shiloh Room,
8 p.m., UT University Center,
Knoxville
APRIL
1: ETSPJ April Fool Bloopers
Night
2-3: TPA Advertising/Circulation Conference, Franklin
3-4: SPJ Regions 12 and 3
Spring Conference, Little
Rock, Ark.
5-7: Newspaper Association of
America Annual Convention,
San Diego, Calif.
21-26: National Press Photographers Association Seminar
at American Press Institute,
Reston, Va.
26-29: Southern Circulation
Managers Association
Conference, The Battle
House, Mobile, Ala.
26-29: American Society of
Newspaper Editors Conference, The Fairmont Hotel,
Chicago, Ill.
30-May 2: American Copy Editors Society National Conference, Minneapolis
MAY
15: ETSPJ Golden Press Card
Awards Dinner
JUNE
17-19: TPA Summer Convention, Sheraton Read
House, Chattanooga
JULY
18: ETSPJ Front Page Follies
SEPTEMBER
16-18: SNPA Traveling Campus, Knoxville
18-20: 106th Annual SNPA
Convention, Ritz Carlton,
Naples, Fla.
23-25: SNPA Workshop for
Smaller Newspapers, Marriott City Center, Charlotte,
N.C.
OCTOBER
15-17: Institute of Newspaper
Technology, Knoxville
The Tennessee Press
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Greg M. Sherrill.....................................................Editor
Elenora E. Edwards.............................Managing Editor
Robyn Gentile..........................Production Coordinator
Angelique Dunn...............................................Assistant
The Tennessee Press
is printed on recycled paper
and is recyclable.
The Tennessee Press can be read on
www.tnpress.com
OFFICIAL WEB SITE OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION
Tom Griscom, Chattanooga Times Free Press....................................President
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange.................................Vice President
Art Powers, Johnson City Press...................................................Vice President
Bill Williams, The Paris Post-Intelligencer...........................................Treasurer
Greg M. Sherrill, Knoxville....................................................Executive Director
DIRECTORS
Lynn Richardson, Herald and Tribune, Jonesborough........................District 1
Jack McElroy, News Sentinel, Knoxville..............................................District 2
Chris Vass, Chattanooga Times Free Press...........................................District 3
Mike DeLapp, Herald-Citizen, Cookeville.............................................District 4
Hugh Jones, Shelbyville Times-Gazette...............................................District 5
Ellen Leifeld, The Tennessean, Nashville..............................................District 6
John Finney, Buffalo River Review, Linden.........................................District 7
Brad Franklin, The Lexington Progress.................................................District 8
Joel Washburn, Dresden Enterprise.....................................................District 9
Eric Barnes, The Daily News, Memphis..............................................District 10
Pauline D. Sherrer, Crossville Chronicle................................................At large
TENNESSEE PRESS SERVICE
Dale C. Gentry, The Standard Banner, Jefferson City.........................President
Pauline D. Sherrer, Crossville Chronicle......................................Vice President
W. R. (Ron) Fryar, American Hometown Publishing, Franklin.............Director
Jeff Fishman, The Tullahoma News........................................................Director
Victor Parkins, The Milan Mirror-Exchange............................................Director
Michael Williams, The Paris Post-Intelligencer......................................Director
Greg M. Sherrill............................................................Executive Vice President
TENNESSEE PRESS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
W.R. (Ron) Fryar, American Hometown Publishing, Franklin............President
Gregg K. Jones, The Greeneville Sun..........................................Vice President
Richard L. Hollow, Knoxville....................................................General Counsel
Greg M. Sherrill....................................................................Secretary-Treasurer
CONTACT THE MANAGING EDITOR
TPAers with suggestions, questions or comments about items inTheTennessee
Press are welcome to contact the managing editor. Call Elenora E. Edwards,
(865) 457-5459; send a note to P.O. Box 502, Clinton, TN 37717-0502; or e-mail
[email protected]. The March issue deadline is Feb. 9.
FEBRUARY 2009
A few easy, no-cost takeaways
When assessing whether to spend the money to
the story left the original launching page. In most
attend a conference, one of the determining points
instances you will know when a story should have
is longer-term benefit.
been shortened or possibly rewritten.
A long list of speakers with more credentials
There is a tendency to write to fill space and not to
than a page will hold is not the best draw card for
tell the story. Too often a 15-inch story can be reduced
hyping enrollment. That is not to say that speakers,
to eight inches, be more engaging and leave room for
who are about as exciting as watching paint dry,
additional content. You and the writer will find that
do not influence a conference choice.
the eight-inch story can be more difficult to construct
But give me some meaningful takeaways, and
than the run-on version that was twice as long.
I am there.
While on the story front, start thinking how a
YOUR
The Tennessee Press Association winter convenreader, regardless of platform, should be able to
tion offered a host of tips, shortcuts and ideas. PRESIDING access your information.
Many are not novel and most are easy to apply.
Print is obvious because it happens each day or
The key is to answer a simple question: Will this REPORTER week. The online posting allows readers to access
improve the reader experience?
their local content at home, work or on the road.
With that in mind, let’s share a few quick and
Adding video or audio to the presentation extends
Tom
Griscom
easy reader devices.
the material, putting sound and moving pictures
When news space is a premium, and the readerwith the static print.
ship cries out for more content, what is one to do? Apply the
This is the any-way-you-want-it, we-can-provide-it appencil or ink test.
proach, allowing access to audiences and readers in multiple
Take any story and start reading. Draw a line when you formats.
reach a point in the story where you either feel you know
That is why the Tennessee Press Association winter conventhe whole story or lose interest. Take another story and then tion served the membership well.
another and apply the same test.
Go back and look at your line marks and see how many TOM GRISCOM is publisher and editor of the Chattanooga
went to the end of the story, somewhat into the jump or before Times Free Press.
Papers delayed by suspicious package
TRACKS
Beverly Keel, an entertainment
columnist with The Tennessean,
Nashville, since 2006, has left the
newspaper.
Earlier, she was a business writer at
the now-closed Nashville Banner. She
is the daughter of the late Pinckney
Keel, columnist and managing editor
of the Banner.
Keel also has been teaching at Middle
Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, holding the John Seigenthaler
Chair of Excellence. She has worked
for other publications as well.
Keel’s husband, Ronnie Steine, is a
former vice mayor of Nashville and
now is a councilman.
The ad below and others similar to
it, provided by TPA President Tom
Griscom, are available at www.
tnpress.com for TPAers to run in
their newspapers.
First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting religion, or prohibiting the free
exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably
to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
“Journalists, by their
very nature, represent
the ultimate strength
of an open society as
well as its ultimate
vulnerability.”
—Judea Pearl
Courtesy, Freedom Forum
By LEA ANN OVERSTREET ALLEN
The Tennessean, Nashville
Suspicious contents in a package
opened at The Tennessean Jan. 19 caused
a three-hour delay in production affecting delivery of four newspapers printed
at the Broadway plant in Nashville.
Police were called to the newspaper,
and the building was evacuated at
7:40 p.m. The package was examined
by the bomb squad and a hazardous
materials team.
No explosive device was found, said
Metro Police Capt. Michele Donegan,
but a substance in the package was
considered “suspicious” though not a
threat. Police were testing the substance
to determine its nature. Printing of The
Tennessean, USA Today, The Daily News
Journal of Murfreesboro and The LeafChronicle of Clarksville was held up while
police checked the package. Employees
were allowed to return to the building at
about 10:40 p.m....
Tennessean makes format changes
An Associated Press story Jan. 6 said
that The Tennessean, Nashville, had
made some format changes to combine
editions and eliminate daily television
listings.
Editor Mark Silverman attributed
the changes, which took effect Jan. 5,
to the recession.
The weekday local and business news
sections have been combined into one
section. The paper is combining its
Friday features and weekend sections
and turning two Sunday features sections into one.
Although the daily television listings
have ended, the newspaper is continu-
ing weekly TV listings on Sundays.
The paper also reorganized its newsroom staff for its print and Web operations and named an editor to oversee efforts to involve readers in coverage.
Silverman said the paper had received
responses from nearly 4,000 readers
while it considered how to reformat the
newspaper.
The Tennessean is owned by the Gannett Co.
Partners
“Intellectual freedom, of course, implies intellectual diversity.”
Frances FitzGerald, 2007
Advertising Placement Snapshot
ROP:
Network:
December 2008: $ 511,758
$ 60,192
Year* as of Dec. 31: $ 511,758
$ 60,192
*The Tennessee Press Service Inc. fiscal year runs Dec. 1 through Nov. 30.
The Tennessee Press
FEBRUARY 2009
11
No competition in making two purchases
BY KEVIN SLIMP
TPS technology director
Unfortunately, I
had to spend money out of my own
pocket for a couple
of computer-related products this
week.
Fortunately, I saw
the first one comSlimp
ing. When you’re
in the business of
speaking about the latest computer
products, people expect you to own the
latest and greatest yourself. So once
a year, whether I need one or not, I
buy a new computer. So what does the
“technology guru” buy when he has to
spend his own money? My choice was
a 15” MacBook Pro. I was tempted to
go with the 17-inch model but decided
to practice what I preach. The 17-inch
model is just too big to carry through
airports several times a month.
I was visiting with a PC-using colleague in Tennessee by phone yesterday
and mentioned that I’d just purchased
the new computer. His response was,
“I could buy three PC laptops for that
much money.”
Truth be told, I could have bought
a couple of MacBooks for the same
money (yes, I was tempted), but I’ve
learned the hard way that you get what
you pay for. That’s not just true of cars
and phones. I need a computer that
works every time. I don’t have time to
worry about fixing a computer. I need
a computer that’s not susceptible to
viruses. I need a computer that doesn’t
need upgrading every few months with
new service packs. I need a computer
that still speeds through applications
after it gets some wear and tear.
That’s why I recommend iMacs for my
clients who are buying desktop computers. Sure, they could buy a couple of
cheap PCs for the $1,200 they’ll spend on
an iMac, but they won’t have to worry
about computers breaking down, virus
attacks and more over the years.
So my first purchase was the MacBook
Pro. Unfortunately, I didn’t see the
second one coming.
If you read my column regularly, you
know that I’m a big believer in backup
drives. You can’t have too many of them.
I keep two of them connected to my
primary desktop (yes, it’s an iMac). You
might even remember that I always keep
at least two backup drives, because they
tend to break down after two or three
years. The better drives tend to last a
little longer. You guessed it. Yesterday,
I was in the middle of backing up my
system when the secondary backup
drive started clicking. Hardware gurus
refer to this as the “click of death.”
When you hear the click of death,
you know a drive is history. Whether
it’s an external or internal drive, the
click means it’s time to do an immediate backup, on the chance that you can
still save your data. It was too late for
mine. There was no saving the data on
this drive. Fortunately, I have another
backup drive with the same data, so
I’m OK. But I am forced to purchase a
replacement drive. Yes, with my own
money.
While we’re discussing the backup
drive, you might be interested in knowing that I had two brands of drives
connected to my iMac. One was a Lacie,
the brand I always recommend to my
friends and clients. The other was a
Western Digital. You guessed it. The
Lacie drive is fine.
So this morning, with credit card in
hand, I ordered a Lacie Triple-Interface
(Firewire, USB, eSATA) drive. For $100
plus change, I ordered a 500 Gigabyte
drive that should work quite nicely.
The Lacie drives work well with both
PCs and Macs.
Donations can be sent to my usual
address.
InCopy continues to Impress
InCopy is Adobe’s word processing
application that works in concert with
InDesign. Even though InCopy has been
around for a long time, I still get a lot
of questions about it.
Often overlooked because it’s not part
of the bundled Creative Suite products,
InCopy is a valuable resource, making
PRESERVE
FROM PAGE 10
Do not store the unprotected newspaper with or next to other acidic
materials such as wood, cardboard,
notebook paper, etc.
Is it OK to frame the newspaper for
hanging?
Framing is OK, but it’s important to
keep newspapers away from sunlight,
moisture and insects. Use conservation
quality glass or acrylic that filters out
harmful UV light. Even if you use UVfiltered glass, do not place the framed
newspaper in a sunny area. Make sure
that the matting or backing is 100 percent cotton fiber — cotton rag matboard
— and preferably buffered. Never place
the newspaper on a cardboard backing.
This will result in rapid deterioration.
Most custom frame shops will have
these materials available, so you may
not have to buy them online.
(From The Newseum)
Real bondage
“Tell a man what he may not sing,
and he is still half free—even all free,
if he never wanted to sing it. But tell
him what he must sing, take up his
time with it so that his true voice cannot sound even in secret—there, I have
seen, is slavery.”
Mary Renault
Author, 1978
HOW TO CONTACT US
Tennessee Press Association
Knoxville, TN 37919
Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
E-mail: (name)@tnpress.com
Those with boxes, listed
alphabetically:
Laurie Alford (lalford)
Pam Corley (pcorley)
InCopy allows users to work in different modes. This screenshot shows
InCopy in Story mode.
it possible for even small operations
to have a managed editorial workflow.
I’ve been using InCopy CS4 over the
past couple of months and continue to
appreciate this powerful application.
While the CS4 versions adds only a
couple of noteworthy new features, it’s
important to make sure your version
of InCopy is the same as InDesign. If
you’re considering an upgrade to the
CS4 suite of applications (InDesign,
Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.) and you use
InCopy in your workflow, remember to
upgrade that as well.
Upgrades to InCopy start at $89.
The full version is $249. For more
Lacie brand external drives are information, visit adobe.com/prodSlimp’s favorite backup devices.
ucts/incopy/.
Drive-In Training
Note that we have several
technology-related training
sessions in Nashville during the Drive-In Training
portion of the convention.
This is a great time to learn
new techniques and find
answers to some of those
software and hardware issues that have been getting
on your nerves. For more
information, visit www.
This is the drive that Slimp bought. For less than
tnpress.com.
$100, plus shipping, this 500-GB drive works
with USB and Firewire connections.
Gannett plans worker furloughs
Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, said it will require most
of its U.S. employees, including Chief
Executive Officer Craig Dubow, to take
one week of unpaid leave this quarter
to help save money.
The furloughs include The Tennessean, Nashville, which Gannett owns.
“A furlough program would be the fairest and least intrusive way to meet these
fiscal challenges in the first quarter,”
said Dubow in a memo to employees.
“We sincerely hope this minimizes the
need for any layoffs going forward.”
The company has cut jobs and
trimmed print editions after publishing
revenue slipped 14 percent in October
and November.
(The Tennessean, Nashville,
Jan. 15, 2009)
|
An article in The New York Times
about the furlough said Gannett owns
85 daily newspapers. Craig A. Dubow,
chairman, president and chief executive, said he and all other top executives
would be included. It noted that Gannett eliminated 3,500 jobs in 2007 and
a “similar number” in 2008.
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opening?
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www.tnpress.com.
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New direction
Heritage hires Russell
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BARACK OBAMA CHRONICLED THE NATION’S
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WASHINGTON — Before a jubilant crowd
of more than a million, Barack Hussein
Obama claimed his place in history as
America’s first black president, summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope
against the “gathering clouds and raging
storms” of war and economic woe.
On an extraordinary day in the life of
America, people of all colors and ages
waited for hours Tuesday in frigid temperatures to witness a young black man
with a foreign-sounding name take command of a nation founded by slaveholders. It was a scene watched in fascination
by many millions — perhaps billions —
around the world.
“We gather because we have chosen
hope over fear, unity of purpose over
conflict and discord,” the nation’s 44th
president said.
The presidency passed to Democrat
(See Obama, Page 7A)
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card” that would allow her to
live in the United States.
Initially, the Japanese woman
sought permanent residence so
she could come to Blount County for the birth of the couple’s
son and raise him here with her
in-laws.
Problem: The Japanese woman’s visa was denied by U.S.
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immigration officials because the
couple had not been married for
two years before the sergeant’s
death, according to Sgt. Ferschke’s mother, Robin Ferschke.
With the assistance of U.S.
legislators, Hotaru Ferskche
was granted a temporary visa,
but the approval came too close
to the baby’s due date for her to
feel comfortable flying to the
3A
Money&Markets . . . 5B
Nation&World . . . . . 4B
Opinion . . . . . . . . . 6A
Sports . . . . . . . . . . 1B
Sudoku . . . . . . . . . 8B
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Dear Abby . . . . . . 11A
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Horoscope . . . . . . . 9B
Celebration continues
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KINGSPORT — The prevailing view
from 853 Dale St. just after noon on
Tuesday was it’s good that Barack Obama is president of the United States of
America, but he needs God to lead him.
A half dozen Kingsport AfricanAmericans gathered inside Edward
Hayes’ home to reverently watch the nation’s first African-American take the
oath of office and deliver his “New Era
of Responsibility” inaugural address on
television.
None shed any tears, and they were
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WASHINGTON — Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million,
Barack Hussein Obama claimed
his place in history as America’s
first black president, summoning
a dispirited nation to unite in hope
against the “gathering clouds and
raging storms” of war and economic woe.
On an extraordinary day in
the life of America, people of all
colors and ages waited for hours
Tuesday in frigid temperatures to
witness the moment as a young
black man with a foreign-sounding
name took command of a nation
founded by slaveholders. It was a
scene watched in fascination by
many millions — perhaps billions
— around the world.
“We gather because we have
chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord,” the
nation’s 44th president said.
The presidency passed to Dem-
ocrat Obama from Republican
George W. Bush at the stroke of
noon, marking one of democracy’s
greatest gifts: the peaceful transfer
of power.
But a stark transfer all the same.
In one of the new administration’s
first acts, Obama ordered federal
agencies to halt all pending regulations until further review — this
after Bush’s final weeks raised
heated debate over rushing new
rules into effect on the way out the
door.
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Tears flowed for Marie Knaff of Harriman while watching the inauguration of President Barack Obama Tuesday. Knaff, holding her goddaughter Kyra Gore, was one of many residents who went to Jamieson Community Center in Harriman to watch the historical moment.
By CINDY SIMPSON
[email protected]
A sense of pride and hope overwhelmed the auditorium at Harriman’s Jamieson Community Center
Tuesday.
The building — once the home of a segregated
Roane County school — was now filled with people
celebrating the inauguration of President Barack
Obama, the nation’s first African-American president.
“This is an historic moment for me, something I
thought would never happen, something I
dreamed about my whole life,” said Judy
Anderson of Harriman.
Her husband, Spencer, took a vacation day so he could witness the
inauguration.
“It means we, as a people
have come a tremendous way,”
he said. “We’ve come a long way
but still have a long way to
go.”
For the Andersons, who have
three grandchildren, it is an
opportunity to look to younger generations and say with
confidence they can accomplish much.
“Right now I feel like I can
really tell them they can be
anything they want to be,” Judy
said.
Tears flowed and a chant of
“Obama” filled the room briefly following Obama’s oath of office.
A box of tissues sat at the ready
for one group of women. Shirts
showing the First Family were
in abundance.
Mamie Hamilton
was ebullient.
“This is the
greatest day of my
life,” she said. “I
didn’t think I
would ever live to
see a black president. I didn’t
think my children, which the oldest is 30, would live
to see it.”
The group responded passionately to the Rev. Rick
Warren, who led the invocation in the nation’s capital
before Obama was sworn in.
Warren said Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders like him were in heaven shouting.
Many in attendance could remember segregation
and the prejudices experienced during that time.
Mary Hickey, a retired school teacher, was a teacher at Jamieson and later at Central Elementary
School after integration.
She remembers standing across the
street from Harriman High School to
catch a bus to go to Campbell High
School in Rockwood.
“We’ve come a long way since that
time,” Hickey said.
“I just think this is such a great
day for the nation and especially
African-Americans,” she said.
“I’m so glad the good Lord let me
live to see it.”
She believes that Obama will
give young people something to
believe in.
“It will give our young people
hope,” Hickey said. “When I was
teaching, I was telling them
they could be anything they
could be; now it is true.”
Roslyn Eskridge, a kindergarten
teacher at Walnut Hill Elementary,
was also in attendance.
She attended a one-room school at
Emory Gap School until the eighth
grade, when integration was ordered.
Eskridge said that a colleague at
Walnut Hill came to her and said they
knew she must be proud that Obama
was elected.
She
responded
that now when
she looks into
the faces of her
school children,
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Roane County Constable Mark Patton could soon find
himself out of office. An ouster suit was filed against him
in Roane County Circuit Court on Tuesday.
Patton, who was elected as constable for the 6th District in August 2006, has been accused of using his police powers to harass residents and law enforcement officers.
The suit, filed by District Attorney General Russell
Johnson and County Attorney Tom McFarland, points to
several incidents as grounds Patton should be removed
from office. One is an encounter Patton had with Sheriff
Jack Stockton at the courthouse last August.
Shortly after a chancellor’s ruling reinstated him as
constable, Patton stood on the courthouse steps with a
gun holstered to his side and his hands wrapped around
a big stick. The suit alleges that Patton caused several
citizens to flee the courthouse in fear and prompted
Stockton to pull out his gun “in an attempt to protect
himself from the defendant.”
The suit also states that Patton “accosted, assaulted
and threatened several citizens” at Kingston City Park
last September.
He was arrested and charged with three counts of assault for that incident.
The suit also alleges that Patton assaulted Stockton’s
daughter and grandchildren by “willfully and wantonly
using his vehicle as a weapon” last November.
McFarland and Johnson want Patton immediately
suspended from office until the matter is resolved. The
suit also asks “that a temporary suspension hearing” be
held as soon as possible.
Patton attorney Chris Cawood did not return a phone
call by Tuesday deadline.
The
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Thousands in Kenya watch inaugural address.
More on
BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Tribune Staff Writer
It was a scene that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr . dreamed
of but never realized. People
of all races converged together to hear a message of peace
and brotherhood.
Despite frigid weather
and f alling snow, more than
100 gathered at the Jef ferson
County Courthouse Monday
to celebrate the birth of the
Civil Rights leader and to remember his message.
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Anescia Collins becomes emotional as she watches the inauguration of President Barack Obama on Tuesday at MTSU’s
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— Stepping into history ,
Barack Hussein Obama grasped
the reins of po wer as America’s
first black president today , saying the nation must choose “hope
over fear , unity of purpose o ver
conflict and discord” to o vercome
the worst economic crisis since the
Great Depression.
In frigid temperatures, an e xuberant crowd of more than a million packed the National Mall and
parade route to celebrate Obama’s
inauguration in a high-noon cer emony. The y filled the National
Mall, stretching from the inaugural
platform at the U.S. Capitol to the
Lincoln Memorial in the distance.
With 11 million Americans out
of w ork and trillions of dollars
lost in the stock mark et’s tumble,
Obama emphasized that his biggest challenge is to repair the tat-
‘Starting today, we
must pick ourselves up, dust
ourselves off and begin the work
of remaking America,’
Barack Obama
44th president of the United States
tered economy left behind by outgoing President George W. Bush.
“Our time of standing pat, of
protecting narro w interests and
putting of f unpleasant decisions
— that time has surely passed, ”
Obama said in an undisguised
shot at Bush administration policies. “Starting today, we must pick
ourselves up, dust ourselv es of f
and be gin the w ork of remaking
America.”
The da wn of the ne w Democratic era — with Obama allies in
charge of both houses of Congress
— ends eight years of Republican
control of the White House by
Bush, who lea ves Washington as
one of the nation’ s most unpopular and di visive presidents, the
architect of tw o unfinished wars
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blogging from D.C.
The site is already
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election news,
videos, graphics and
AP interactives that
explore the history of
the presidency, past
inaugurations and
much, much more.
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Local citizens reflect on new Presidency
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and JOHN B. BRYAN
The Wilson Post
“I’m elated and excited,” were
the first words from a 70-year-old
African American yesterday
when she was contacted by
telephone by The Wilson Post.
Her emotional words burst
through the telephone receiver
immediately after “Good morning
Mary. How are you?”
Mary Harris, a longtime leader
in Lebanon’s African American
community, made it clear that the
inauguration of President Barack
Obama was a very important
event in her life.
Without expressly detailing her
thoughts, her thoughts were made
clear when she said only a few
words, “I’m 70-years-old and
when you’ve experienced some
of the things I and others my age
have . . . well, you know it’s a
very important day.”
Although she didn’t say it, the
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“I didn’ t think I w ould
live long enough to see the
changes in this w orld that
we are seeing no w,” said
Wallace Coleman, a musician who sang, “I Shall Not
Be Moved.” Originally from
Morristown, Coleman is now
retired and mak es his home
in Cle veland, Ohio. He has
attended each MLK celebration since 2000.
The celebration started at
the dik e in Dandridge with
a march to the courthouse
to commemorate the Ci vil
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Rights marches of the 1960s.
Rev. Rosie Curberson of
the Ne w Zion AME Zion
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Church in Ne wport deli vered the opening prayer
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Dandridge Mayor Geor ge
Gantte was on hand to deliver
a brief speech. Coleman w as
one of se veral performers
who sang.
Rev. Norman Jef ferson
spoke about the changes in
society in the last 45 years.
He acknowledged that while
African Americans
have
made tremendous strides
there is still room for change. Musician
accomplished and we will all be
better,” Harris said.
She urged that Obama’s
presidency should not be viewed
as a black or white issue but
rather as an “opportunity for our
country to come together, work
together and be together.”
Hattie Bryant, a retired educator and Obama campaign supporter, reflected after viewing the
inauguration of the 44th President,
“It’s really hard for me to put into
words what I am feeling. After
living my entire life on Forrest
Avenue and experiencing a taste
of the separation of races,
teaching 20 years in segregation
and the last 13 in an integrated
classroom…my hope is that our
President will make our country a
better place for all people. I am
so thankful at age 85 to see this
come to be.”
Lebanon resident Todd Jones
said although he didn’t vote for
the President he is all for him
now. “I think we need to come
together as a country and support
him. We are facing a tough
economy now and President
Obama needs our support to see
us through this,” he said.
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander,
R-Tennessee, chairman of the
Senate Republican Conference,
today made the following statement on the inauguration of
President Obama to serve as the
44th President of the United
States:
“In August 1963, I was a law
student and a summer intern in
the Department of Justice,
standing at the back of a huge
crowd on a hot day when Dr.
King spoke of his dream that one
day his children would not be
judged ‘by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.’ The inauguration of
Barack Obama the day after Dr.
King’s birthday symbolizes both
remarkable progress on
America’s most intractable
problem – race – and a reaffirmation of America’s most unique
characteristic – a fervent belief
that anything is possible.”
Lebanon Mayor Philip
Craighead said he thought the
crowds would be overwhelming
“All the hundreds of thousands
of people there and all that
security, I hate to try to get
around in that,” Craighead said.
“I’m excited for him and I wish
him well. I hope everybody will
get behind him and help him get
this country where we belong.”
Regarding Obama’s sudden
rise to the presidency, Craighead
said, “Things all of a sudden lead
you in life. Different opportunities
come before you and you follow
the hints, then all of a sudden like
him you’re President.”
Fifth District U.S. Rep. Jim
Cooper issued the following
statement after attending the
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reference was clearly about the
movement to abolish segregation
in the late 1950s and 1960s and
the years before that dating back
to slavery.
She said she believed and was
hopeful that “we collectively” can
work for “the betterment” of our
country and community.
This community leader, who
has volunteered her services to
help organize an African American History Museum, publish a
history about the local African
American Community and is now
engaged in trying to restore the
old historically prominent Pickett
Chapel, says she thinks the
message transmitted by the new
president about “serving” is “so
important” to our country’s
future.
“I think leadership sets the
tone and I think we all have
something to offer. I think, if our
community and our country can
work together, there will be much
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TVA buyouts
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By DAMON LAWRENCE
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TVA has made no secret of its willingness to buy out
property owners around the ash spill area.
“We’re trying to settle from the nearest out,” TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore said at a recent public hearing. “If you want to sell your home and move out of the
area, we’re willing to do that.”
So is TVA also willing to pay property taxes on the
property it buys?
“We are going to look at that issue, but a determination has not been made,” TVA spokesman Gil Francis
said.
Roane County Property Assessor Teresa Kirkham said
the county stands to lose some money because unlike
property owners, TVA doesn’t pay property taxes.
“That’s right,” Kirkham said. “From the property that
TVA buys, we’ll be losing some revenue from it.”
Property and its value has become a big issue since
the Dec. 22 fly ash spill at TVA’s Kingston Fossil Plant.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the TVA disaster released an estimated 5.4 million
cubic yards of fly ash to the Emory and Clinch rivers and
surrounding areas.
Many property owners are worried the values of their
homes will drop because of it.
TVA’s plan to buy out property owners, and the potential for loss property tax revenue, raises another issue for
the county.
“Those properties will come off the rolls,” Kirkham
said.
County Commissioner Mike Hooks said he believes
TVA should pay the county for the lost property tax revenue.
Hooks said he raised the issue with TVA officials at
the recent public hearing.
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on their minds,” Hooks said.
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Then she stressed what it will take for
Obama to be an effective leader.
“I thank God for allowing a man like
him (to be president),” Geraldine Swagerty said. “I just hope and pray that he
will let the Lord lead him instead of him
leading himself because that is what is
wrong with America today. We are getting away from God. We need to get to
God because He is the one who is going
to lead us. ... He needs to let God be first
in his life that he could run America like
it should be run. ... He should make a
fine president if he lets the Lord lead.”
Obama plunges into his new job
in earnest on Wednesday, meeting
with his economic team and Iraq
advisers while Congress gives his
economic revival plan a going-over
and takes up the nomination of
Hillary Rodham Clinton to be secretary of state. Her confirmation
has been held up for now by Republican concern over the foundation
fundraising of her husband, the
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Geraldine Swagerty, pastor at the
Full Gospel Mission, breathed a sigh of
relief when Obama mentioned “God’s
grace upon us” at the end of his remarks.
“I’m glad he said something about the
Lord,” she said. “He’s going to have to
have the Lord first in his life, God bless
him.”
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TPA’s 2009 Advertising/Circulation
Conference will be held Thursday
and Friday, April 2-3, at the Franklin
Marriott Cool Springs.  The theme,
“www.AdCircExplosion.com,” emphasizes the integral role of the Internet to
newspapers in all facets of newspaper
operations.  The URL also features the
conference details.
 Chuck Nau of Murray and Nau,
Seattle, Wash., is the featured speaker
for advertising. He will present “The
New Frontier,” a session focused to enhance and reinforce a sales manager’s
or salesperson’s online selling skills
in selling across both print and online
media.
 Nau also will kick off the Friday
training with a joint session for advertising and circulation professionals
with his “Only Just a Minute…Only
Sixty Seconds In It!” time management session. The workshop takes a
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W. Bush and his wife, Laura, leave on a helicopter.
A 20-year-old Greenback
School grad stood tall
Tuesday during inauguration ceremonies for
the nation’s
44th president.
As Seaman
Apprentice
Eric Hunt
passed the
r e v i e w i n g Hunt
stand during the inaugural parade,
the command “Eyes Left!”
turned his head toward
the new president. Barack
Obama waved back.
Hunt is a member of an
elite unit — the U.S. Navy
Ceremonial Guard.
He had already seen
President Bush during
military farewell ceremonies. He saw and met stars
during rehearsal and at the
opening ceremonies at the
Lincoln Memorial. Denzel
Washington, Tom Hanks,
Bon Jovi, Samuel Jackson, Tiger Woods, Garth
Brooks. Others he can’t
even remember.
Hunt has seen celebrities before. No big deal.
He used to work at TAC
Air, the private terminal
at McGhee Tyson Airport,
and saw plenty come and
go.
Tuesday was a long day.
Up at 3 a.m. Make sure
you have everything in
place. Get your weapon.
Ride to the Pentagon to
get inspected and have
your weapon checked to
make sure the firing pin
is removed. Arrive at the
tents in the staging area.
Fallen Marine’s widow faces new immigration hurdle
The immigration saga continues for Hotaru Ferschke, widow
of Sgt. Michael H. Ferschke Jr.,
the Maryville Marine killed in
action Aug. 10 while serving in
Iraq.
Because of a Korean War-era
provision, she is not considered
married under immigration
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By Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn
WASHINGTON — A vast, excited crowd
of more than 1 million bore witness Tuesday to a transfer of American power like
none before it. The blare of regal trumpets and thunder of cannon were familiar. The transition from Republican to
Democrat, and gray hair to dark, had happened before.
This, however, was white to black, a
shattering of racial barriers finally made
complete when Barack Obama made it
through a bumbled oath-taking, delivered
a momentous-by-definition speech and
got back to being his unflappable self.
The Democrat who charged onto the
national scene saying this was not a nation
of red states and blue states, but the United States, became president while wearing a red tie, the Republican color.
AP Photo
Republican George W. Bush, president
no
more, wore a blue tie, the Democratic
President Barack Obama stands with his wife,
Michelle, as Vice President Joe Biden salutes color. They embraced at the Capitol and
alongside his wife, Jill, as former President George walked out together.
‘Change has come’
WASHINGTON — It was a moment unlike
any other in the life of America.
A jubilant crowd of more than a million, perhaps the biggest throng ever in Washington,
stood for hours in frigid temperatures Tuesday
to witness a young black man with a foreignsounding name take command of a nation
founded by slaveholders. The scene was
watched in fascination by millions more —
maybe billions — around the world.
Still, for all the hoopla, Barack “No Drama”
Obama took the oath of office and became the
first black president sounding inspirational
themes, warning foreign foes and hearing waves
of cheers — just like every president before
him.
“We gather because we have chosen hope
over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord,” the nation’s 44th president said.
He had a message for the world: “We are
ready to lead once more.”
Meaning that he, the young African-American, was ready to lead.
Obama didn’t forget he was black.
“This is the meaning of our liberty and our
creed,” he said, “why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in
celebration across this magnificent Mall, and
why a man whose father less than 60 years ago
might not have been served at a local restaurant
can now stand before you to take a most sacred
oath.”
No one blinked. That was that.
The presidency passed to black Democrat
Obama from white Republican George W. Bush
at the stroke of noon, marking one of democracy’s greatest gifts: the peaceful transfer of power.
It was a stark transfer all the same. In one of
the new administration’s first acts, Obama ordered federal agencies to halt all pending regulations until further review — this after Bush’s
final weeks raised heated debate over rushing
new rules into effect on the way out the door.
And even though new White House aides
struggled to find offices and work intercoms, an
overhauled www.whitehouse.gov Web site was
running under Obama’s banner within minutes
of his swearing-in. “Change has come to America,” it declared.
Obama plunges into his new job in earnest
on Wednesday after capping inaugural festiviPlease see OBAMA, page 2A
Spring Hill
woman
attends
inaugural
ball
By Robert Norris
AP Photo
Barack Obama (left), joined by his wife Michelle, takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday to become the 44th
president of the United States at the U.S. Capitol in Washington.
93rd Year, Number 21
By JENNIFER LOVEN
AP White House Correspondent
■ Bushes back home, Page 3A
■ Oath foulup, Page 3A
■ Kennedy improves, Page 3A
■ Crowds over 1M, Page 3A
Obama becomes first
black president, calls
on country to unite
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The March issue of The Tennessee
Press will contain further coverage of
the inauguration from the particular
point of interest of newspapers in
Tennessee—who went, who covered it
first-hand, and the like.
If any reader has a particularly interesting experience, we encourage him
or her to tell us about it. Contact me at
[email protected].
Folks at the 2008 Ad/Circ Conference participate in a roundtable discussion.
ROBYN GENTILE | TPA
Enrollment begins in TnNET
BY BETH ELLIOTT
Network advertising manager
Open enrollment
for Tennessee’s
online advertising
network, TnNET,
has begun.
“This is an exciting opportunity for
our association,”
said Kevin Slimp,
Elliott
Tennessee Press
Service (TPS) technology director. “The
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FORESIGHT
TnNET online network not only offers
a new revenue avenue for participating
papers, but it’s a great way to support
Tennessee Press Service. With minimal
effort on the newspaper’s part, it’s a
win-win situation.”
TPA member newspapers that enroll
in TnNET will have an opportunity to
make money through this new revenue
stream. The online advertising network
will require no sales efforts on your
part. The only thing required is to place
a short string of code provided by TPS
on your Web site. TPS will work with
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HENNINGER
STASIOWSKI
every newspaper to help walk them
through placement of the code.
TnNET ads will be sold as an add-on
for current ROP and network clients,
giving them a cost-effective way to have
a statewide online presence through one
point of contact, TPS or newspapers
that enroll in the network. Newspapers
that wish to do so can sell ads into TnNET and keep 40 percent commission!
Ads will be online for one month for
$2,200. An introductory rate of $1,200
SEE TnNET, PAGE 3
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GIBSON
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JOHN I. CARNEY | SHELBYVILLE TIMES-GAZETTE
Kevin Slimp distributes material to participants in InDesign and Photoshop
training in Shelbyville. The Shelbyville Times-Gazette and the Marshall
County Tribune, Lewisburg, were preparing in January for a system-wide
editorial workflow upgrade. From left are David Melson and Danette
Williams, Times-Gazette, and Jennifer Vendro and Karen Hall, Tribune.
Contact Slimp at TPS in Knoxville to arrange for onsite training.
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IN CONTACT
Phone: (865) 584-5761
Fax: (865) 558-8687
Online: www.tnpress.com

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