Even Tennessee lawmakers sometimes tire of government open records silliness.
During a meeting of the Tennessee Legislature’s Joint Government Operations Committee earlier this week, Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, asked representatives of the Office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the Department of Transportation and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to ensure their open records policies allow residents to take photographs of public.
The music business has been growing for the last few years after going into a decline in 1999. And it doesn’t have to do with buying MP3s .
The news and music industries have long been compared; they were disrupted by the Internet at about the same time and forever changed.
Are there still lessons to be learned between the two industries. Would a “Spotify model” work for news? Some efforts have been tried and failed from traditional media companies, the tech powers that control the platforms and entrepreneurial startups.
Kid Rock has some growing up to do if he plans to be a politician.
“You guys wrote a f****ed up story and allowed it to be published. You want a quote, there it is,” — Kirt Webster, Kid Rock publicist
I hope the New York Times doesn’t screw up one of my favorite sites.
Turns out, a lot of real news is being read on Facebook.