The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by Journal Media Group; its former owner, The E.W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983. The Commercial Appeal is a seven-day morning paper. It generally takes a liberal point of view regarding editorial positions. It is distributed primarily in Greater Memphis, including Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton counties in Tennessee and DeSoto, Tate, and Tunica counties in Mississippi. These are the contiguous counties to the city of Memphis. In 1994, The Commercial Appeal won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Michael Ramirez.
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Mack Weaver is the new head of Memphis in May International Festival, and he's a certified barbecue contest judge. It is also abundantly clear that he has a competitive streak. At a Rotary Club of Memphis luncheon speech Tuesday at the Brooks Museum of Art, an attendee asked Weaver about SmokeSlam, the competing BBQ festival that happens on the same weekend as the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. The Memphis in May contest is May 15-18 at Liberty Park, while SmokeSlam is May 16-18 at Tom Lee...