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May
16
Where is the Blue County outrage?
By Clint Brewer | Filed Under City News, Metro Schools, Miscellaneous, Nashville Blogosphere, School board elections
Nashville’s progressives appear to have missed this story today about a questionable blending of church and state with Nashville’s school children caught squarely in the middle.
It seems Metro Nashville Public Schools are using area churches – the worship spaces and sanctuaries, not just meeting rooms – to hold events for students during school hours. We found one group of students singing a Christian spiritual at a church during school hours this week.
I guess the city’s progressive bloggers are taking the afternoon off. Would there be more fuss if this were happening in a rural county?
UPDATE: It appears I hit a nerve with Mike Byrd over at Enclave about taking the afternoon off. It appears he was working his day job.
I am not sure how the frack he decided I was talking only about him, but whatever. Hey, Mike, if you think kids being taken from their public school classrooms to churches and singing Christian hymns during school hours is not worthy of comment or coverage then that is fine.
By the way, despite Mike’s high strung nature (in print anyway) and his very public dislike of me, he is really a terrific local blogger. His blogging homepage is here, and anybody who wants in-depth coverage of Metro government with a neighborhoodcentric point of view and progressive leanings should check it out. It is very, very well done.
The thing is, Mike, I hope somewhere a model is developed where lone citizen journalists can make a living doing what they do. There are bloggers in every major market in America that do as good a job or better than the mainstream media reporters that work alongside them. You, and others, certainly deserve to be paid for it. It is quite a public service.
Now, back to the usual. I am sure Mike will find some way to twist my words printed above into me somehow talking down to him and bloggers everywhere, but I am not.
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[...] Clint Brewer thinks the progressive blogosphere took the day off. [...]
[...] Mike responds to a back-handed compliment singling him out in the Nashville City Paper’s Political Animals post written by editor Clint Brewer. This jab at bloggers looks like the flip side of the mainstream media’s presumptive disdain [...]
If bloggers want to be considered on a par with the MSM in terms of their reporting and contribution to the public discourse then they should not be above scrutiny.
I find it odd that every time I venture forth and offer a criticism of anything blog related in this city that bloggers come unhinged. Many of the bloggers in this city spend the majority of their words picking apart the MSM. Why is turnabout not fair play? If you are doing work better than journalists – as some have claimed from time to time – why are you above being challenged? Why are you above scrutiny from any quarter?
Furthermore, Mike and Newscoma are missing the point. I was not asking for attention to the article but to the issue. I was HOPING the city’s progressive bloggers would give this issue of religion in city schools some attention because objecting to it should agree with their sensibilities. It appears I was wrong. Instead, I am being discussed for daring to challenge them.
That’s fine. I deal with my readers’ questions directly, every day. Questions and criticism do not bother me.