In his communications career George Korda has been a military journalist in Europe, a newspaper reporter in Florida, and a Tennessee campaign press secretary, public relations practitioner and spokesman for city and state governments. These roles have enabled him to see and work in the media and in politics from all vantage points.
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George Korda: Stacey Campfield’s idea and the question of what recipients of taxpayer benefits owe taxpayers
Updated 4/11/2013 at 3:53 p.m. 30 comments
The inevitable uproar over State Sen. Stacey Campfield’s bill to compel some level of parental participation in the education of a child failing in school ignores or drowns out a question worthy of discussion: what do recipients of taxpayer-paid benefits ...
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George Korda: Duncan and the Iraq War: A decision never in doubt
Published 3/25/2013 at 4:12 p.m. 5 comments
Ten years ago, there were callers to my radio show who said they would never again vote for U.S. Rep. John Duncan, Jr. They were upset because he’d failed to support Operation Iraqi Freedom, the war against Iraq, which started ...
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George Korda: Anonymous commenters: the fear and loathing of standing behind what you write
Published 3/1/2013 at 10:53 a.m. 197 comments
Commenters on stories or columns should have the courage to put their names on their posts. That’s just my opinion. With my name on it.
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George Korda: Women in front-line combat
Published 2/12/2013 at 2:00 p.m. 55 comments
Last year I was in a conversation with a woman with whom I worked about women serving in U.S. armed forces front-line infantry, armor and artillery units and aboard U.S. Navy warships.
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George Korda: What are Tennessee Democrats going to do?
Published 1/23/2013 at 12:56 p.m. 33 comments
The drawing rooms of Georgetown and the New York and Los Angeles party circuits are undoubtedly abuzz with the much described “unapologetically progressive” inaugural speech of President Barack Obama.
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George Korda: Suppose they held an election - and no one cared
Published 1/1/2013 at 2:13 p.m. 20 comments
Of all the things about which one could write at the start of a new year – bottomless budget deficits, what a Tennessee Republican state legislative supermajority will mean, and political mayhem at every turn – why focus on Knoxville’s ...
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George Korda: The Tennessee GOP; ambulance contracts; insurance exchanges and disabilities treaties
Published 12/12/2012 at 8:14 a.m. 6 comments
My last column concerned repeated unanswered attempts to get the Tennessee Republican Party to provide a guest for my Sunday afternoon radio show on WNOX-FM. Democrats answered quickly when called. The Republicans, well, I knocked three times, but never got ...
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George Korda: The Tennessee GOP and Proverbs 16:18: 'Pride goeth before destruction…'
Published 11/21/2012 at 12:40 p.m. 10 comments
Here’s a suggestion to the Tennessee Republican Party: it should brush up on Proverbs 16:18 as a reminder of what pride goeth before.
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George Korda: Election aftermath: can’t we all just get along?
Published 11/5/2012 at 11:50 a.m. 37 comments
The 1987 Nashville mayoral election pitted U.S. Rep. Bill Boner against a health care businessman named Phil Bredesen. Between the two of them, Bredesen and Boner spent between $4 million and $5 million running for mayor. The campaign was savage.
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George Korda: Scott DesJarlais, Bob Dylan and positively campaignin’ blues
Published 10/17/2012 at 11:10 a.m. 12 comments
“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.” Can Bob Dylan say it, or what? There’s a useful paraphrase to this line from Dylan’s 1960s classic “Like a Rolling Stone” in relation to first-term U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais ...
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George Korda: Talking to the Christians about their nightmare come to life
Published 10/1/2012 at 6:23 p.m. 17 comments
Speaking with Gary and Deena Christian about “that subject” is a hard thing to do. It’s not that they’re difficult to talk to. It’s the topic, the 2007 murder of their daughter, Channon.
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George Korda: It’s not that we don’t like the news media, it’s that we don’t like the media we don’t like
Published 9/10/2012 at 1:03 p.m. 10 comments
In the way popular culture and politics usually likes to categorize things, there seems to be a “war on everything” during this political season. Let’s add another and say there’s a “war on the news media” as well.
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George Korda: The nightmare for Democrats that is Mark Clayton – but not for the reason you might think
Published 8/21/2012 at 1:47 p.m. 28 comments
Mark Clayton is a nightmare for the Tennessee Democratic Party in large part because of what the controversy surrounding his U.S. Senate candidacy portends for Democratic office-seekers in future elections.
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George Korda: Roe v. Obamacare
Published 7/30/2012 at 11:06 a.m. 54 comments
Likening the Supreme Court Obamacare ruling to unleashing on taxpayers the equivalent of predatory lending, over the telephone U.S. Rep. Phil Roe sounds frustrated, but only because that’s how he feels. Frustrated and worried.
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George Korda: City County Building parking “security” update, mayoral subpoenas, and commissioner prayers
Published 7/9/2012 at 9:36 a.m. 4 comments
My last column focused on the City County Building parking garage in downtown Knoxville, cut off for nearly a decade from public use for the “security” and benefit of government employees.
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