Got Back
In advance of her December back surgery, Memphis City Council member
Janis Fullilove told Eyewitness News 24/30 that she abused alcohol and
pain pills.
“My problem was pain,” she said, blaming her recent run-ins with the
law on her doctor’s inability to make an exact diagnosis. In addition
to DUI-related misdemeanors, Fullilove is also accused of obtaining a
fake Tennessee driver’s license. In Fullilove’s defense, it can be a
real pain finding somebody to drive you to Tunica.
Verbatim
“Frankly, I don’t know why you wouldn’t charge more,” E.W. Scripps
senior vice president of newspapers Mark Contreras said about why the
larger, supplement-stuffed Thanksgiving issue of The Commercial
Appeal cost as much as a Sunday edition.
Season’s Beatings
According to a report by Fox 13 News, “Black Friday brought out the
rowdy side of a Memphis Toys ‘R’ Us crowd. … There were even
allegations of people in the crowd being armed with tasers and pepper
spray.”
Five paragraphs later, Fox reporter Jill Monier repeated, “Some say
people lined up shopping carts to keep the late arrivers at bay while
others were reportedly armed with tasers and pepper spray.” Later, it
was finally noted that police “could not corroborate reports of people
… armed with tasers and pepper spray.”
Elvis Claus
Sirius XM chief executive Mel Karmazin recently said that in spite
of the auto industry’s ongoing hardships, holiday sales of Sirius XM
Radio players are “on target.” Karmazin credits the company’s success
to an advertising campaign featuring a basketball legend, a dead
comedian, a dead rock-and-roller, and Howard Stern. When asked how much
it cost to bring Michael Jordan, Richard Pryor, and Elvis Presley
together, Karmazin answered, “a lot of millions of dollars.”
