RIP Volunteer Voters

Submitted by R. Neal on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 20:40.

Was just checking in from vacation land and learned the sad news that Volunteer Voters is no more. Today was apparently Kleinheider's last day.

I pretty much disagree with ACK's libertarian leaning right-wing politics, but as a media paid blogger he generally gave all points of view equal time. And if there was something going on in Tennessee politics, Kleinheider was all over it before anyone else. Over a short period of time he developed some pretty good sources, which is why Volunteer Voters was arguably the best political blog in the state of Tennessee.

The mainstream media corner office morons never cease to amaze me. Their business is changing, but some of them are too stupid to figure out how to change with it. Selling internet ads isn't rocket science. Kos gets $15K per week for his premium ad spot, and he doesn't even have a sales staff.

Kleinheider built a valuable brand, and WKRN flushed it down the toilet. The WKRN idiots in suits must have been out getting high and playing video games the day they covered branding in Marketing 101. And it's not the first time this has happened over there. The sad irony is, Hobbs still has a job. Sometimes there is no justice.

Anyway, so long ACK. Nice work, and we hope to see you around the blogosphere.

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Suck. Sorry to hear it. I

Submitted by Andy Axel on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 22:39.

Suck. Sorry to hear it.

I have no doubts that ACK will land somewhere - this "new media" thing isn't going away and it does take a certain breed to bring quality to the content.

VV was about the only thing of value at the wkrn-dot-com domain. Their main page is about the least readable in the local realm, and their TV coverage isn't much better.

How bad do you have to be to be worse than your local Fox affiliate? Witness News2. Hell, the Salina Kansas daily has a better looking web presence...

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Sorry to hear it

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 07:07.

That's really too bad. I disagreed with ACK's political views too but I thought he was very fair as a paid blogger. He didn't take stuff out of context or misrepresent the point of some posts, which is a favorite tactic of folks like Glen Dean. I thought Kleinheider did a really good job for WKRN.

So, is WKRN out of the blogging business completely?

Looks like it.

Submitted by Andy Axel on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 10:45.

Looks like it. NashvilleIsTalking looks horrid. I just took a peek at it after not having been there in a long while. Yuck - it's basically a glorified RSS feed.

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What are they thinking?

Submitted by LeftWingCracker on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 11:37.

in an era where New Media is going to be where news-gathering is headed, this is a step backward, the implications of this are not good. We have to fix the sickness that is Corporate America.

Memphis IS LeftTennessee!

And he is back on the wires,

Submitted by bizgrrl on Wed, 03/26/2008 - 13:16.

And he is back on the wires, see Tennessee Ticket for the news.

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