…If you had visited even the threads with the most racist statements, for every one of those statements there were a dozen protests of them!!!
This is all smoke and mirrors. Charlie Crystle has political ambitions. He needed to magnify and amplify the handful, and I do mean handful, of racists. It serves his purpose. Look at all the publicity he has gotten. For free!
All that LNP had to do was ban the offenders. There is talk that LNP is on of the newspaper groups that is looking to charge for online content. Can you imagine the outcry from TB-ers when that announcement was made? LNP doesn’t have that problem now. TB is gone. The problem is that they have badly misjudged their worth to the community. And in ditching TalkBack, they badly misjudge how many online readers they will have left …
Stop crying and write a letter to the editor under your own name unless you’re too much of a coward
I have used the ‘Letter to the Editor’ feature many times. With a limit of 150 words, it is very difficult to make a single point with supporting evidence. Multiple points, forget it.
Op Ed pieces are not printed just because they are sent. Any way you slice it, your voice is only published at the ‘pleasure of the editor’.
The newspaper controls what is said. And LNP does seem to exhibit partiality for the major players in Lancaster thru feature articles.
The potential for imbalanced, detailed information presented with limited, 150 word, disjointed rebuttal is NOT public discourse. Or is that the goal?
Signing letters to the editor can be a bad career move anywhere, and especially in Lancaster. Anonymous postings are necessary for people to be able to freely voice their opinions and information that special interests don’t want the public to hear.
LNP staffers never liked Talkback and I often found it filled with trivia and sometimes nasty remarks. But at times it did change my opinions on some things.