2004 - Advertiser Official Editorial on across the board UL name usage

[ULRaginCajunFan]

I may resubscribe to the paper now. I'm glad to see someone was listening.

[RaginEsquire06]

I have been a long time subscription carrier...will probably be one for the rest of my life! However...I have one "BIG" problem with your paper. You inconsistantly dicussed my Local University in regards to sport activities! I should never open up the sport section and the headline article is relating to the affairs of "LSU!" This happens way to often!....Open up the Advocate.....I PROMISE you...you will NEVER see UL LAFAYETTE or RAGIN" CAJUNS in their sports section with out speaking about LSU FIRST! Hell, I've even read the local paper and there were articles published regarding LSU sporting activities.....and NOTHING in it regarding my beloved University....As if there is NO LOCAL interest in our LOCAL University!

This one of the reasons I'm online now! Not enough information is being printed about the daily activities and occurances at the GREAT University of LOUISIANA!

And the worst of all....the Advocate sometimes have articles about the Ragin' Cajuns and the Advertiser DOES NOT!

Get it together STAFF!

[RaisingCajun08]

RaginEsquire you are totally correct. It is sad to say but I recently called the Advocate to subscribe to there paper. In many instances, they have more about our University than our local paper does.

Recently the Advocate, broke verbal commitment news days before our Lafayette paper. Personally I think it is unexcusable that a Baton Rouge paper is breaking news on a Lafayette University.

For that reason, I will never subscribe to the Advitiser. I will get all my news on UL online.

RaginPagin & UL Delphi are the best sources for UL information!

[Turbine]

Flash Back to when the entire Daily Advertiser had a clue.

Juli Metzger was the best executive editor The Daily Advertiser ever had.

She understood her audience.

Juli now owns JMG http://www.julimetzger.com/

Thanks Juli, we remember.

[Turbine]

Shame on the current executive editor of the Advertiser ( Karen Lincoln-Michel ) for not keeping the promise of her predecessors.

Karen Lincoln-Michel is not to be confused with the publisher of The Daily Advertiser Karen Lincoln, although they both once worked in Dallas.

In an email exchange with Claire Taylor I said "You KNOW Louisiana fans do not like reading "at Lafayette" and yet you insist on spitting in their faces. Please quit." she replied "It is the style my editors want us to use. Feel free to voice your opinion to them. I will surely pass it along to them as well. Sorry to offend you."

I sent Karen Lincoln-Michel and email ( kmichel@theadvertiser.com )

[CajunEXPRESS]

Has the Daily Advertiger reverted? If so it is time for every UL fan to associate with others and have a mass subscription cancellation. If any of you receive the DA Rag and do not do this, then just shut the F up. We have enough people here to start a flash mass mob drive.

[California Cajun]

Shame on the current executive editor of the Advertiser ( Karen Lincoln-Michel ) for not keeping the promise of her predecessors.

Karen Lincoln-Michel is not to be confused with the publisher of The Daily Advertiser Karen Lincoln, although they both once worked in Dallas.

In an email exchange with Claire Taylor I said "You KNOW Louisiana fans do not like reading "at Lafayette" and yet you insist on spitting in their faces. Please quit." she replied "It is the style my editors want us to use. Feel free to voice your opinion to them. I will surely pass it along to them as well. Sorry to offend you."

I sent Karen Lincoln-Michel and email ( kmichel@theadvertiser.com )

The Advertiser reverted on their promise last Spring on pages other than sports and I promptly canceled my subscription.

[CajunAlum10]

Well unless you email them and tell them why you cancelled your subscription they will hardly notice, nor care that they lost you as a subscriber.

[Bunch24]

Flash Back to when the entire Daily Advertiser had a clue.

Juli Metzger was the best executive editor The Daily Advertiser ever had.

She understood her audience.

Juli now owns JMG http://www.julimetzger.com/

Thanks Juli, we remember.

I, respectfully, will disagree with that statement. I'm sure several former sports employees and newsroom employees will also disagree.

I won't go into details, because personally I have nothing against her, but as an executive editor she didn't know the first thing about sports. I'm fairly certain she wrote that column at the behest of Kevin Foote and Bruce Brown, who argued heavily in meetings to drop the @Lafayette tag in stories.

As for the "understanding her audience", again I completely disagree. Go back to when she was there and read some of the stories that we were running. A lot of what was written was from a "Yankee" perspective, as Kevin would like to say. Too many stories trying to explain our culture to our readers. Our readers knew our culture, they didn't need any 'splainin.

[Turbine]

I, respectfully, will disagree with that statement. I'm sure several former sports employees and newsroom employees will also disagree.

I won't go into details, because personally I have nothing against her, but as an executive editor she didn't know the first thing about sports. I'm fairly certain she wrote that column at the behest of Kevin Foote and Bruce Brown, who argued heavily in meetings to drop the @Lafayette tag in stories.

As for the "understanding her audience", again I completely disagree. Go back to when she was there and read some of the stories that we were running. A lot of what was written was from a "Yankee" perspective, as Kevin would like to say. Too many stories trying to explain our culture to our readers. Our readers knew our culture, they didn't need any 'splainin.

Here is what she understood that locals overlook; Half of Lafayette's population is/are imports and locals assume everyone is from here.

[Just1More]

I, respectfully, will disagree with that statement. I'm sure several former sports employees and newsroom employees will also disagree.

I won't go into details, because personally I have nothing against her, but as an executive editor she didn't know the first thing about sports. I'm fairly certain she wrote that column at the behest of Kevin Foote and Bruce Brown, who argued heavily in meetings to drop the @Lafayette tag in stories.

As for the "understanding her audience", again I completely disagree. Go back to when she was there and read some of the stories that we were running. A lot of what was written was from a "Yankee" perspective, as Kevin would like to say. Too many stories trying to explain our culture to our readers. Our readers knew our culture, they didn't need any 'splainin.

OK... Turbine overshot the target. She didn't understand her audience. But, she understood the name issue. And if a Yankee gets it... so should everyone else.

[Frenchie35]

I quote Juli Metzger, "I know not everyone will agree", now who will not agree with you? Anyone on the DA Staff?????