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March 14, 2008
Bad news out of Nashville tonight, but not the last word
A.C. Kleinheider has been relieved of his duties as Nashville TV station WKRN's sole remaining full-time blogger. His last post cites budget cuts as the reason.
While I can certainly see this from the business angle, I am not sure that the station's current management (different, it must be stated, than that which hired him initially) ever fully grasped what they had.
I know I will struggle to adjust to having such a huge hole in my must-read list. Partly because most of the rest of us in the Tennessee blogosphere have day jobs (plus), Volunteer Voters demonstrated an inimitable focus on political stories — surface and background — that I, for one, have depended upon for my updates. But the time factor was only part of it. The skill involved in presenting so many voices, including (until they shut it down) one's own, is what made the product downright addictive.
There are others; make no mistake about it. Check my blogroll to the left (uh, you might need to go to my main page to do so). And just like the very blog you're reading now was born because of a self-imposed hiatus by one of my first daily reads, my prediction is that even more will come. Like the many-headed Hydra of Lerna, this thing just won't die.
Godspeed, Mr. Kleinheider; and know that when the brand-new TennesseeTicket.com launches, you'll have an open invitation to guest.
More reactions:
- Former ACK colleague Brittney Gilbert
- Former "South Knox Bubba" (now R. Neal) (better post here)
- Sean Braisted
- Newscoma
- Ilissa Gold
- Knoxville Talks
- Jack Lail
- Bob Krumm
- Chris Wage
- Katherine Coble
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