THREE BIG Things Missing in Tampa

Independent Media tops my list !!!

And here, my compliments to those Tampa bloggers who are doing their best to fill in; I'm working on a list but frankly this is all new territory for me so it'll take awhile. Yall are the journalists of Tampa .... (does anyone KNOW any of the reporters at the Tampa Tribune (LIES printed Daily) anymore? Nope, they've all been outsourced, uprooted, whatever'd) and replaced with these strange new mouthpieces for 'the man' ... Ever since they set up that one editor's son and chased the editor out of the picture ... that newspaper gasped it's LAST as a real news outlet.

I DID find this but the last activity on the list serv is 2005. It's possible I'm out of the loop. Please inform.

As well, I am a producer at Tampa Bay Community Network and that's something that can lead down some interesting paths of revelation if one works at it.

Compassion at City Hall Seriously, what a lot of dead wood and the whole dead forest growing under the direction of the current mayor-ess.


A L T H O U G H ----- I think that this could be solved with a little more attention from Independent Media (see above)(yeah, that's part of what I'm up to)

Dick Greco might be alot of things but no one could accuse him of not giving a damn. I hope he runs again and I'd like to see City Hall stop threatening everyone who wants to run against the mayor OR speak up.
(afterthought: Dick is not running and on the other hand, I think he and she are somehow related?)... Too bad. Now on to the second part. Stop threatening and castigating everyone who runs against the current PTB.

Motorcycle Gangs ! Since that big multiorgamastic (I might be making that word up!) trial of Bowman and whoever the other guy was .... (Wheeler??) we're sposed to believe that the biker gangs are gone or dissipated. Okay, who then are all these tough-looking guys and gals on motorcycles riding around intimidating citizens with a good bit of organization inherent? Some of them don't have bikes, just the attitude. I have some pretty cool biker friends but please, Tampa, stop pretending that we have no violent gangsters here and stop spending all that gang task force money on lipstick for PIGS. Cops and sheriffs are bikers now and vice versa. There's no thin blue/green line there, anymore; it's all a big melting pot, yknow? Scary.

Speaking of multiorgamastic trials, I'm pretty sure the editor's son was tried in the newspaper ..... you remember the one ... and then trace the Tampa Tribune from there. Yep, I'm very bad with names but it will come to me, eventually. I never believed it was all that and frankly, it stunk of a big setup to ME.

Again, I think if we had some Independent Media ... (and that's what I'm working on, how bout you??)