Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom of speech. Show all posts

Saturday, February 5, 2011

YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM THE TRUTH

Last year around this time, Mz. Understood (pictured here) was banned from posting on the local newspaper's website.  I had forgotten about the demise of this stylish, intelligent poster, until Chris Cobler reminded me of this today. 

He must have had a slow day in the newsroom, because he stumbled upon this blog and it made him uncomfortable.  Nothing in this blog was untrue, sources were quoted, and nothing was taken out of context. 

Chris Cobler
February 5, 2011 at 1:14pm



Subject: request

Hello,
I would like to request that you remove your blog post attacking me in relation to Aprill Brandon's column. Perhaps I'm too sensitive to such attacks, but I'm trying to focus on what's happening here in my new home rather than in the past. I appreciate your consideration and hope you're having a good weekend.

Chris

This is the same Chris that wields a mean zapper when comments are not to his liking and posters are banned so quickly that it could make one dizzy.  So, let me be clear, I have corrected mistakes when I have written blogs and I have found I was reporting rumors and not facts, but when I have researched and written the facts, such as the February blog about Mz. Understood, then my words stay. 

Blogspot has been my writing home for over a year and this is the first request that I remove any blogs.  Interesting?!


I have a dear friend who is fond of an expression concerning kicking a dog on a porch and being bitten. Be careful, this ole dog has been kicked one too many times by the people who work at the local newspaper and yes, my words do bite.