Joe Wessels Should Have Blog On Cincinnati.com
Joe Wessels
When I started working at WDBZ Radio Station back around the year 2000, Joe Wessels was president of the Queen City (Cincinnati) Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and working as a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Back then, Edna Howell was Blue Chip Broadcasting's news director. She convinced me that I should obtain a press pass and strive to hold myself to a higher set of standards than other radio talk show hosts. (The press pass is actually called a "State of Ohio News Media Credential Card" and you used to have to apply to the Ohio Department of Public Safety and have the Highway Patrol do a background check of some sort to get one). Radio talk show hosts should be more like newspaper opinion columnists -- their opinions should be based on facts and they should abide by a code of ethics. Even though I wasn't a college-trained journalist, I considered joining the SPJ. I talked it over with Joe Wessels who encouraged me to join the organization and get involved. I never did.
An awful lot has changed in local media in the last 5 years or so. For one thing, Joe had a weekly radio show on WAIF in 2005. I hated everything about it, especially the way Joe treated callers to his show -- he wouldn't let them ask his guests tough questions. Another change, is the increase in the amount of blogs around and the way traditional media is using them. Anyway, these days Joe works for the Cincinnati Post where, in addition to his reporting duties, he just started a weekly political column. (His first column is titled "Pepper OK with pot plea.") Joe's stories and columns don't, however, appear on Cincinnati.com. They should.
Both the Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Enquirer post some of their news stories and opinion columns on Cincinnati.com, but the stories only stay there for a short while. Blog entries appearing on cincinnati.com, however, seem to stay there forever. Why should the Enquirer's reporters have their work published on cincinnati.com's blogs, but not the Post's reporters? Are Greg Korte, Kimball Perry, or Dan Klepal better or more deserving than Joe Wessels?
The Post's photographers have a blog of their own, why not the Post's reporters?
And what about Joe's peers at that piece of trash CityBeat having their own blog!? If a creep like Greg Flannery can have his twisted views published on his company's blog, certainly Joe Wessels should have his researched views published at cincinnati.com.
I know Joe has his own personal blog and website at www.joewessels.net but that's not the same as having his stuff published on the bigger, company owned and operated cincinnati.com.
The bottom line: Joe Wessel's stories and weekly columns should be published on cincinnati.com.
6 comments:
JOE WESSELS IS ONE SEXY WHITE BOY
I agree Nate, Joe is a better reporter than the stenographers and propagandists at the SpEnquirer. Then again, that aint saying much.
Why do all the girls who think I'm sexy have to be "anonymous?"
Speaking of your legacy of objective reporting, Nate. Here's a piece you dod on the Duke Lacrosse Rape story:
"Three white lacrosse players from Duke University beat, choked, sodomized and brutally raped a young Black single mother who was working as an exotic dancer to pay her way through North Carolina Central University, a community college. After raping her, the white boys kicked her out and called her all sorts of racial slurs. The white boys were yelling the racial insults so loud a neighbor could hear them. On the same night, one of the white lacrosse players sent an email out saying he planned to inviting some strippers over at another time, kill them, and skin them! (source) Despite near daily protest on Duke's campus, and national outrage, no one has been arrested or charged with a crime."
-- Nate
Nate - Sorry to change the subject, but do you intend to respond to this racist doggerel last week on the Whistleblower? http://tinyurl.com/ycmhxg
Our Ghetto Christmas Carol
submitted by Nate “Rhymes With Hate” Livingston
Leroy de GOLD-TOOTHED reindeer
Had a very NAPPY fro
And if you ever saw him,
He was at the LIQUOR sto’
All of Leroy’s homeboys
Use to PLAYA HATE his game
But they can`t mess w/ Leroy..
‘Cause he got a big OLE thang!
Then one smoggy CHRISTMAS day
SANTA came to say,
“Leroy...have you seen my sleigh?
I know you had it the OTHER day!”
So Leroy BROKE out runnin’
And SANTA pulled out his “nine”
Den SANTA shot poor Leroy
DEAD in his black behind....
Anonymous
"Nate - Sorry to change the subject, but do you intend to respond to this racist doggerel last week on the Whistleblower?"
Nope.
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