tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13796804.post9143833611727112713..comments2023-09-06T05:58:02.522-07:00Comments on Palousitics: If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13796804.post-7203958304137443122007-12-11T22:01:00.000-08:002007-12-11T22:01:00.000-08:00Dale,These are all issues that I intend to discuss...Dale,<BR/><BR/>These are all issues that I intend to discuss with Nathan Alford on Monday when we have lunch.<BR/><BR/>There is absolutely no legitimacy to the comments on the Daily News website . One person could conceivably be making all the posts, as you have suggested, in some schizophrenic frenzy of commenting. It's not free speech. It's a free-for-all. It would be one thing for a blog, but this is a legitimate newspaper that the whole community turns to for news. It's bad enough we have to stomach Vera White's gossip fest once a week. <BR/><BR/>And of course, there is the issue of anonymous comments. Why must you provide a name, address, and phone number to submit a letter to the editor and yet be allowed to post anything you want to write with no identification and no restraint on the website? It's completely irresponsible. I have said before that this is just a gimmick to boost the Daily News' faltering subscription rate. But there are plenty of places online to anonymously sling mud already. Why do we need the Daily News site for that?<BR/><BR/>I know some people, including on this blog, have made the case for anonymity in order to disclose important information that might potentially embarrass the commenter. But seriously. Has anyone around here blown the whistle on the Corvair or big tobacco in comments on the DN website? No. Anonymity is used almost exclusively to launch vicious attacks on me or the members of Christ Church and New Saint Andrews. I'm sorry. It's cowardly and it's immoral and I'm totally against it. If you can't muster the courage to say something publicly, then it's not worth saying at all.Tom Forbeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080804561058476349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13796804.post-2947205619065197122007-12-11T20:11:00.000-08:002007-12-11T20:11:00.000-08:00Chris Lupke is quoted in the June 23, 2006 Lewisto...Chris Lupke is quoted in the June 23, 2006 Lewiston Morning Tribune: Lupke said the proposed location is adjacent to access points for the junior high school, an elementary school, an assisted living community and the town hospital.<BR/>"For those reasons this traffic issue isn't a matter of luxury," he said. "It could be a matter of life and death."<BR/><BR/>That pretty much let's us know where the dead kids accusation originated.<BR/><BR/>It's easy to appear above the fray when attacking anonymously.April E. Cogginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08940677956053695836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13796804.post-3252735710672444562007-12-11T19:49:00.000-08:002007-12-11T19:49:00.000-08:00Check the time stamp of all those anonymous commen...Check the time stamp of all those anonymous comments. <BR/><BR/>A bit suspicious, I'd say.Mr. C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02755478905521762986noreply@blogger.com