[Desk] Magnolia Report Republicans Ignore JFP
Here at StateDesk, we’re amused to see that the Republican pundit/editors over at the Magnolia Report are, once again, ignoring the Jackson Free Press, perhaps hoping we’ll just go away. Today they have a poll on the best capitol correspondent?and the JFP’s Adam Lynch is nowhere to be seen on the list, even though he is doing some of the most in-depth legislative coverage. They also seldom link to JFP state coverage, including opinion pieces directly about the Legislature. Nice going, boyz.
Posted by ladd at 10:24 AM in Legislature, JFP | Email this entry
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Goes to show not everyone is as open-minded as they like to claim. The Magnolia Reports guys need to get a grip, and have the courage to post articles that may challenge their paradigm.
Posted by on 01/11 at 10:18 AM | #
Not only that, but don’t I remember the JFP doing a profile of one of the Magnolia Report boys in a Most Influential Young Jacksonians piece? So clearly this doesn’t cut both ways.
Oh, and I see that the JFP is also snubbed in the list of “News and Forums” pages. Meanwhile, the Jackson Crime/SafeCity blog, last updated in November, gets featured in its “Political Blogs” section. What doesn’t? Blogs run by actual politicians, like Ben Allen and Erik Fleming. Go figure.
Guess you shouldn’t take it personally, since they appear to have snubbed the Jackson Advocate and Mississippi Link, too. And the absence of the NAACP on their list of Activist Organizations is also quite conspicuous.
Cheers,
TH
Posted by Tom Head on 01/11 at 04:02 PM | #
Methinks some people need to come into the modern day.
Posted by on 01/11 at 07:41 PM | #
Yes, we featured the Webmaster. To be fair, Tom, the guy who runs Magnolia Report asked me to do one of those Q&A interviews that they post some time back. He sent me the questions, and wanted me to do the interview myself in e-mail and send it back to him to post. I never got around to it.
Everyone knows that I don’t believe in e-mail interviews; it’s making the subject do all the work, and they are only so interesting before there is nothing spontaneous about them.
And they’ve linked to some JFP stories in the past?but not typically the most in-depth stuff, or the columns that challenge the governor and the Legislature.
I don’t care whether they link us or not; our exposure isn’t exactly an issue right now. But having a poll about capitol correspondents and not including one of the best ones up there is just silly; thus, I will defend my star reporter until the cows come home.
And I don’t think they’re about having their paradigm challenged. 
Posted by on 01/11 at 11:15 PM | #
