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October 24th, 2006 at 9:27 am
A “Top Ten” worthy of Letterman!
October 24th, 2006 at 9:36 am
Love #6 Mimi! The visual on that is hilarious!
October 24th, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Interesting call in today’s Sun editorial for a Public Safety commissioner. Thoughts?
October 24th, 2006 at 8:02 pm
Yeah, look under “Davis goes to Boston”
October 25th, 2006 at 12:25 am
A public safety commissioner is a BAD idea. I’d like to see the so called examples where it has worked well. I work in public safety and I don’t know of any. I still haven’t figured what stopping crime and fire/rescue work have to do with each other. Maybe the new city manager justs want to bring in some outside people and this is the excuse.
By the way great list.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:30 am
I think this is the Sun’s proposal, not Lynch’s.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Speaking of The Sun I’d like to note somewhere (and felt this to be a good place) they are censoring what gets posted on the community forum. Seems if you disagree with Jim Campanini or point out the inconsistencies in his arguments, such as I chose to, its a no go for your post. How about a little freedom of speech from our so called champions in the third estate?
October 27th, 2006 at 5:50 pm
I’m not kidding about this at all, but within a hour of my above post my message from three days prior suddenly appeared on the Sun Community Forum, inserted between two posts I had read earlier. I am not a conspiracy theorist by any means, so it must be a huge coincidence in timing. At any rate thanks for allowing me to post freely (and instantly) here. I’m fairly new to this blog, but I think its insightful and a great forum.
Smokey
October 29th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Welcome Smokey
October 29th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Smokey: In defense of the Sun’s blog (and I don’t defend it lightly)…the Sun, as a (sometimes) professional publication should, I think, throw all comments of any web forum associated with it into some sort of moderation, whether that’s full moderation or just forcing people to sign up for a username with a valid email address, etc. After all, there’s spam (especially x-rated spam) that you do NOT want to have connected with your publication, and then there’s the occasional total jerk who comes on to swear at people, or say, pretend to be someone else. Having gone through that annoyance recently and in the past, I can honestly say I can’t blame them. However, I have never known anyone to have their comment not approved even with disagreeing with Campanini (trust me, I did it often). The comment ends up approved eventually, and Campanini usually does respond. Granted, I feel his responses often completely miss the mark anyways, and I also feel that that blog is a waste of my time and I don’t bother to comment there, or even much read it. After the first couple of months it was obvious to me that quite often, the posts were either super-irrelevant (about horses? it’s a political forum!) or else full of analysis which was completely out of left field with no evidence to back it. I got tired of refuting the obvious.
But it’s perfectly within the right of any owner of any blog to moderate the conversation, as I have done in the past. The Sun is just more strict about having to look at every comment before approving it (I do not, I get too many in a day and I have a business to run!), and it’s likely that the Sun is just too busy/understaffed to bother with being timely about it either. The blog is obviously not a priority of the editorial staff given how much time passes between some posts.
Your complaint posted here might have been read by someone who can approve comments at the Sun’s blog, and triggered them to spend the time to log in and approve it, that’s all. I wouldn’t read too much into it.