By FITSNews || The S.C. Policy Council has joined the South Carolina Press Association, according to a Wednesday release from the think tank, a move which demonstrates the fact that the organization’s new website, The Nerve, is “committed to core journalism principles.”
In fact, a release from the Policy Council wants to make sure you know that their website is a step above … well … us.
“The SCPA does not accept blogs as members,” the release notes. “The Policy Council’s news Web site, The Nerve, offers its readers the opportunity to blog, but fundamentally it is an investigative journalism site dedicated to reporting on government at all levels, especially state government.”
Wow … you know that’s awesome and everything, but as it turns out we don’t need to be invited to the cool kid’s club. First of all, we’ve got our own professional association – the S.C. New Media Association.
Second of all? Whether you want to call us investigative journalists or not (prolly not) we’re still beating The Nerve like it stole something …
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By FirstTime April 15, 2010 at 8:56 am
“It was this big….”
By StupidShouldHurtMore (SSHM) April 15, 2010 at 9:01 am
Wow … a total shift from the original mission of the Policy Council. Since when do think tanks join press associations and attempt to pass themselves off as credible members of the press?
It’s especially funny, as Ms. Landess had an excellent ex-press person on-staff. If the organization actually stuck to it’s core principals and not acted like the stooge it is for the Luv Guv, that individual might still be on staff today.
When you sell out your core principles in the name of political expediency, what sort of organization are you – or are you just like everyone else with an agenda now?
Yeah …
- SSHM
By Tommy April 15, 2010 at 9:16 am
Good god. Tom Roe would be spinning in his grave. The Policy Council and other SPN think tanks were established to provide detailed right-of-center policy research and expertise to state lawmakers, not to be muck-racking investigative journalists. There are plenty of others who will, and do, accomplish that work (e.g. this blog).
By WorkingTommyC April 15, 2010 at 9:26 am
Will:
You rock this state–whether other organizations want to admit it or not.
By Marie A. Faltas, MD, MPH April 15, 2010 at 10:58 am
Fits: This may not be directly related to the story above, although I am embarassed by your sometimes attacks on truly excellent black judges and other officials in what appears to me to be racism. Well, Tandy Carter happens to be black AND CORRUPT and incompetent. It is a mark of true non-racism to not have what W called “the soft bigotry of lowered expectations.” Having said that,this comment was posted early this morning on the The State web-site and received 14 recommendations and two quotations. Within hours, it was hidden. I hope YOU have the journalistic integrity and concern for public safety to run in here. Here it goes:
Chief Carter is putting fire-red lipstick on the pig that is his administration of Columbia’s Police Department, “CPD.” This corrupt man had ME arrested on false harassment charges for having tried to alert CPD to suspected prostitution in my neighborhood. I represented myself in a five-day jury trial which ended in my NOT being convicted. I called Carter as a hostile witness. Under oath, he admitted having held an unusual “round table” basically to put the fix in against me before arresting me but he denied even knowing about a media-reported incident. In that incident around October 2009, a CPD officer let go a solicitor of an alleged under-age prostitute because the officer’s wife was then the solicitor’s secretary. That solicitor resigned the next day from his job as a top lawyer in South Carolina’s Attorney General’s Office. Carter and Deputy Fifth Circuit Solicitor Meadors sit back, let the county sheriffs do the work, then rush to the photo-op. Carter must resign or be fired and Meadors should abandon his bid for Solicitor. Meadors while sober has no more ethical control on the Solicitor’s office than Giese while drunk. Ask Meadors and Carter what they did to me after I provided their offices with photos of a man (probably a client of a suspected prostitute in my neigborhood) grabbing his crotch then standing “turgid” in my parking lot. They had ME arrested under false charges that my photographing suspicious people caused those people “emotional discomfort.”
Read more: http://www.thestate.com/2010/04/13/1242711/columbia-police-arrest-24-in-prostitution.html#ixzz0l5BC4iaK
By kyle April 15, 2010 at 4:53 pm
They are all coming home to roost now baby…when is that nice boy bill nettles going to finish sharpening his pencils? I think we are going to see an investigation bigger than Operation Lost Trust unfold any time now. Ya’ll just wait and see. This is getting ready to be fun!!!
By Ms. Peachez April 15, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I know ya’ll are all upset about the specifics of this article, but Ashley’s rack gets the engine to my motorboat purring…