Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:06 PM PDT by WestVirginiaRebel
LOL "But the old man is really quite clean, don't you know."
You too? I have got some really vicious emails back from some so called journalists that I disagreed with! They are just so angry!
I'm sure glad FR isn't a blog.
How about you?
Understood, but I don't see that as a major sin. Rather than worry about whether people are using more than one screen name, blog masters (or whatever they're called) should delete posts that detract from, rather than add to, the discussion. Unless the posters' real identities are known to each other AND they know something about each other independent of what is written, it deosn't much matter who is who. What matters is the quality of the debate.
You've noticed that, too, huh?
I have the privilege (and I'm certain it's not a "rare privilege") of being insulted by Geneva Overholser, the then ombudsperson of the Washington Post -- one-time editor of the Des Moines Register and otherwise a sainted icon of the liberal newspaper community.
Because I questioned the Post's coverage (that is, non-coverage) of the Jesse Dirkhising affair, she felt free to dub me a "bigot", "a David Duke".
I found myself wondering at the crudity and viciousness of her response to what had been a very polite and civilized note: "How does she know I'm not a major stockholder?"
Ms. Overholser no longer works at the Post. And it is my understanding that one of her nasty responses was, indeed, to a major shareholder...
The real story is Don Rickles sued him for copyright...
Heh heh...
Did you post your opinion on that yourself, in writing?
What we're doing is not BLOGGING, my friend. This is a public forum, designated for opinion writing .... A blog is an ongoing commentary by some self-important blowhard who thinks their shit don't stink.
The term for this sort of alternate identity is "sock puppet." It isn't illegal, but it is and ought to be embarrassing.
ARRGHHH....I was just making a comment that everyone is obsessed with bloggers. Bloggers are only people, and people who think their opinions are so very important. THAT'S ALL
ARRGHHH....I was just making a comment that everyone is obsessed with bloggers. Bloggers are only people, and people who think their opinions are so very important. THAT'S ALL
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