Memphis on the internet.
Dammit, Gannett
Digital hands were wrung in the (Memphis-based) All News Is Local Facebook group last week. The Commercial Appeal flubbed a cutline, calling the “new” bridge the “Hernando Be Soto” bridge. Jokey comments claimed the copy editor “be sotted” and “that be a mess.”
CA alum Otis Sanford made the original post, claiming “errors in headlines and cutlines, written by someone far away from Memphis, are embarrassing and sloppy.” Current CA executive editor Mark Russell commented that these things were “mostly written by local journalists. No one in Arizona is editing CA copy or writing headlines.”
Do what now?
YouTuber IsmokeHiphop Live (108K subscribers) proved the power of niche audiences last week with a video (3K+ views) titled “Memphis Rapper Pooh Shiesty DM’s OPPS Moo Slime His Addy From Miami Jail…GUESS WHO’S MAD?” As of press time, Flyer oldsters were still perplexed.
Lee Dragged
Critics lambasted Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on Twitter last week after a story surfaced about a state program that pays farmers to vaccinate their cows but had no similar program for humans and the COVID-19 vaccine.
“You care more about playing politics than the people. It’s obvious now. Be better,” tweeted Memphis City Council member JB Smiley.