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The Mission and Vision of MagnoliaReport.com The free exchange of information and opinion among communities allows an informed electorate to better choose leadership, understand and react to issues, and plan and promote the common good through proper government. Like a virtual town square for all of Mississippi, MagnoliaReport.com provides a medium for voters, activists, and leaders to sample the perspectives and facts presented by journalists and political operatives around the state. Often, additional stories and motivations shape our political system, those too are presented at MagnoliaReport.com for the discernment of the reader. MagnoliaReport.com does not endorse candidates or issues, nor does it promote parties or causes. Attempts are made to be truthful, fair, and accurate with information. Any perceived bias of the editor is due in part to that attempt. About MagnoliaReport.com This web site is the online scoop for Mississippi politics. The two most used features are the Headlines Page and the Political Report. The Headlines Page is the frequently updated front page of MagnoliaReport.com and the source of links to political news and opinions around the state, and around the country when the involve Mississippi issues. The Magnolia Political Report is the twice-monthly report generated by MagnoliaReport.com and e-mailed to subscribers around the country. Newspaper editors, elected officials, political activists, campaign operatives, lobbyists, government employees, and those just interested in politics are all represented in the subscription rolls. The material for the report deals with Mississippi politics and is compiled from readers' tips, media reports, and other traditional sources. It is provided free of charge on the Internet and by e-mail. Other features of MagnoliaReport.com include the following: Media Links - A compilation of links to Mississippi media sources including daily and weekly newspapers, radio, television, networks, and other traditional news sites. Political Links - A collection of links to Mississippi political sites including political parties, message boards, activist organizations and associations, online forums, and political portals. Candidate Links - Candidates that run for elected office in Mississippi often develop a web site for their campaign, these as well as some government directed web sites are listed here by candidate. National Links - News and political web sites on a national level are gathered here for more investigative research into the political world. Major news organizations, political parties, Washington based forums, and federal government related sites are listed here. Congress - A list of candidates, recent election information, and web sites relating to Mississippi's 2002 Congressional Elections. Judiciary - A list of candidates and web sites relating to Mississippi's 2002 Judicial Elections. Political Calendar - An occasionally updated list of important political dates. Bush in Mississippi - A comprehensive list of officials appointed, nominated, or designated by President George W. Bush. Rumor Mill - Names floating around in the rumor mill for statewide office in 2003, along with related links. About - This page: it tells about MagnoliaReport.com and its functions. Free Subscription - How to subscribe to the free Magnolia Political Report. Reasonably Right - A weekly column by MagnoliaReport.com's Editor, Brian Perry. Published in the Madison County Journal, you can read it and recent columns linked to the Madison Journal's web site. Images - Interesting political images e-mailed to MagnoliaReport.com by readers and viewers. News Feed - A handy tool to search the news on the Internet, or read breaking news on various topics. Archives - The archives of the Magnolia Political Report, the Nick Walters Political Report, SuperTalk Paul Gallo's Morning Diatribes, and MagnoliaReport.com features. Dead Links - The Mississippi political link graveyard. MagnoliaReport.com has been quoted or mentioned on The Fox News Channel in The Washington Times, at ABCNEWS.com, on National Public Radio, on SuperTalk Mississippi, on Mississippi American Family Radio, in The Madison County Journal and The Times of South Mississippi. The Magnolia Political Report was formerly the Nick Walters Political Report. Sources are kept confidential. Contact the Editor: To reach MagnoliaReport.com's Editor, Josh Gregory, e-mail him at josh@magnoliareport.com or to reach him by mail, write to Magnolia Political Report; PO Box 24233; Jackson, Mississippi 39225. Media FAQs How does the Magnolia Report benefit the media? CONTENT: The Magnolia Report serves as a clearinghouse for political news across the state and benefits not only those in the political process or with political interests, but also those who report on the political process. Sometimes an important news item can slip through the cracks and those in North Mississippi will miss the item on the Coast. Journalists and those in the media can sometimes find these articles and notes either in the Magnolia Political Report or in the news links on the front page. TRAFFIC: Because the Magnolia Report links to the stories on media web sites, those interested in reading an articles or news story are directed to the host web page, namely that of the news organization that is reporting the story. For those media organizations using hits and pageviews to sell advertising, this increases your traffic numbers as well as directing viewers to your pages that may hold advertising. REPUTATION: Those news organizations which consistently report and post informative articles are listed more often, viewers visit them more often, and when people tell others that "I read it in the..." then the reputation of the media organization for reporting grows. Does the Magnolia Report infringe on our copyrights? NO. The Magnolia Report does not mirror your web pages or host your articles; it only directs viewers to your Internet site. How are the news links for the Magnolia Report chosen? In choosing links each day, the Magnolia Report considers content, link stability and diversity. CONTENT: First and foremost in choosing an article is the political content. Quotes by political figures, government news relating to decisions by public officials, news generated by political parties, columns, editorials and the like - when politically related - all make great content for posting. LINK STABILITY: Some web pages choose to identify each article uniquely, so that whether archived or on the front page, the news item has the same URL. An example would be www.anynewspaper.com/news/2001/09/21/0014. That news story forever is 2001/09/21/0014 and can be archived by the web page as such. The content at that link does not change. Other web pages will use the same page for a news article every day, meaning the link to that page would stay the same while the content changed. An example would be www.anynewspaper.com/news/article1. Every day a new article is placed at the address, thus not the same news story the Magnolia Report originally linked to. News sources with static links, those that are unique to each story, are more often to be chosen DIVERSITY: Some news articles will appear in several different sources. Associated Press items, syndicated columnists, and sometimes letters-to-the-editors are examples. The Magnolia Report would rather link to three different news sites than one with the same three articles. This gives more media organizations exposure and increases the geographic diversity of the Magnolia Report sources. My media site is not listed on the Magnolia Report. How do I get it listed? E-mail the Magnolia Report to submit your media site for review. How do I contact the Editor to discuss doing an article, column, or interview regarding the Magnolia Report? The Magnolia Report contact information is listed at the bottom of each page. E-mail or write the Editor Josh Gregory and he will call or reply with a contact phone number. I have some suggestions or comments for the Magnolia Report, where do I send my thoughts? Same as above.
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