Seems like there will be a handful of losers, as a result of this:
- LNP is sure to lose. The online version will slowly fade away, just like their daily circulation. Right, wrong, or indifferent many folks went to the site only to take part in the discussions. These will be missed.
- We the users of TalkBack. We have all lost our cool little hang-out.
- As a result of the online version of LNP turning to dust, I believe LNP will have to reduce staff.
I did not read everyday and I did not read everything, but nothing I read was obscene, nothing was vulgar, and nothing was unexpected. Things may have been inappropriate, things may have been insensitive, and also lacking judgment…but I am not sure we are better off because it is gone.
Best of luck LNP and its employees! Thanks for the memories!
Thanks for writing this good letter. I feel the same way. I miss Talkback terribly. It’s probably a sad weekend for a lot of people.
I don’t feel Charlie Crystle deserves, at all, to be blamed for this, though. He didn’t want Talkback to be shut down. He was on Talkback, himself. He just didn’t want people to be reading an online article about a loved one’s car accident or tragedy, for instance, and find a lot of crude, crass remarks under it. I didn’t like that particular aspect either. But that was the way Talkback was set up.
But I loved Talkback, and everything that was perhaps imperfect about it was worth it to me, for all the good things about it. Seems like there would have been a different way to resolve this. It sounded like Charlie Crystle just wanted the Talkback comments not to appear right under the online article (which seemed, actually, like a reasonable request). He never wanted it to end like this. It seems like people are being way too hard on him for this. It’s not his fault.
Loved Solitary’s comment, just a few days ago (when Talkback still existed), about so much of Talkback really being a lot of boring liberals agreeing with each other. (Funny!!) Too bad that couldn’t continue….as a boring liberal, I sure miss the other liberals–whom I didn’t find at ALL boring–and the conservatives, too, who weren’t boring either…:)