VoyForums
[ Show ]
Support VoyForums
[ Shrink ]
VoyForums Announcement: Programming and providing support for this service has been a labor of love since 1997. We are one of the few services online who values our users' privacy, and have never sold your information. We have even fought hard to defend your privacy in legal cases; however, we've done it with almost no financial support -- paying out of pocket to continue providing the service. Due to the issues imposed on us by advertisers, we also stopped hosting most ads on the forums many years ago. We hope you appreciate our efforts.

Show your support by donating any amount. (Note: We are still technically a for-profit company, so your contribution is not tax-deductible.) PayPal Acct: Feedback:

Donate to VoyForums (PayPal):

[ Login ] [ Contact Forum Admin ] [ Main index ] [ Post a new message ] [ Search | Check update time | Archives: 1, [2] ]

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Date Posted: 09:53:39 01/31/05 Mon
Author: No name
Subject: Re: Will you people stop!
In reply to: 's message, "Re: Will you people stop!" on 20:40:16 01/30/05 Sun

>Why should people stop. ...
>Indeed, the T-L has used Sayso in the same manner -
>precisely for its own benefit -- a device thought to
>garner news "tips" from people who would be free to
>speak their mind if allowed to do so without
>identifying themselves. That's, in essence, not
>something normally worthy of a "news tip", let alone
>something worthy of publication. And printing these
>rants borders on the unconscionable. I believe Allison
>thought it somehow titilating and got a big gas out of
>it; ergo it ran.

But what's the difference, Charlie, between this liable-line and the TL's liable-line? This titillates; this depends on anonymity to spread invectives. While I admit that the TL management, especially perhaps Iseman, Janoski and Turfa, have helped to foster complacency and mediocre journalism by caving to Walzer's psychotic behavior, there comes a time when you have to decide whether you want to distinguish yourself as a professional, or you want to cave in to your own prurient interests.

BTW: I do remember you, and I seem to recall that your own work did benefit from the close review of one or two city desk editors.

[ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

Replies:

[ Contact Forum Admin ]

Forum timezone: GMT-8
VF Version: 3.00b, ConfDB:
Before posting please read our privacy policy.
VoyForums(tm) is a Free Service from Voyager Info-Systems.
Copyright © 1998-2019 Voyager Info-Systems. All Rights Reserved.