The gloves are off!
He gets bonus points for naming this post after a Destiny's Child song, but buried beneath his initial entry is Blake's conversation with District One Commissioner Doug Lowry about the latter's disagreement with District Tne Commissioner Elton Dodson.
It spins into a weirdly uncomfortable, yet probably originally intended to be funny discussion of Lowry throwing down with Dodson ... that painfully keeps going on. It's entertaining and, yes, uncomfortable.
It spins into a weirdly uncomfortable, yet probably originally intended to be funny discussion of Lowry throwing down with Dodson ... that painfully keeps going on. It's entertaining and, yes, uncomfortable.
posted by Jmac at 7:54 AM
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Blake's post is just plain stupid.
Blake's post is just plain stupid. unlike this post, which advances the dialog in ways totally invisible to most of us.
Not claiming to advance anything, just making a declarative statement. Does it really help the public discourse in Athens to have Blake blogging about who's the toughest Commissioner?
Perhaps we should send you everything for preapproval since you can apparently (and anonymously) discern that which benefits the public discourse.
I'd tell you to shut your pie hole but I think you have the right to say whatever you want, particularly on a blog.
Funny how that works, huh?
anonymous: big surprise. That's like saying the Daily Kos is liberal.
On the underlying matter: Doug is my commissioner now and - while I would have voted for Garland if I'd lived in this district in 06 - anyone who will kick the [poop] out of Elton Dodson has my vote in 2010.
Snowden: I am not asking for preapproval of anything. Blake is free to write whatever he wants, and I am free to continue thinking that there should be a difference b/w news and entertainment. If Blake is supposed to be a news guy then I really don't think what he wrote on his blog is particularly living up to that. If he wants to write comedy and/ or gossip, then that's fine but it merely undermines his stance as a journalist, IMHO.
Satire, overstatement and lampooning have been part of to press since the first press. Funny that no one writes into the paper complaining about a cartoon lampooning George Bush but you are getting puffy about a blog posting that is, in part, rooted in something relevant to the governing of our community. Discussing the personalities of our elected official and how such personalities might affect judgments and action is entirely relevant. Just because Blake used a funny joke to talk about an uncomfortable situation does not mean he is not, even if just partly, talking about something relevant. And while I’m sure he’s glad to have it, I don’t think he needs your permission to do so.
There must be something in the dwindling water supply because lately it has become popular to say what the press should and should not say. No one batted an eye when the paper publicly scrutinized the resume of former chamber employee Tom Wyatt as he was applying for an out of town job. Oh. But that’s news, right?
You can’t have partial freedom of the press. Don’t like it? Don’t read it.
There's a difference, IMHO, b/w questioning someone's resume who is applying for a job like a Chamber person if they had made that part of a public proclamation (rather than it being simply prurience on the part of the press) and a "journalist" suggesting that one elected official could/ should beat up another. Maybe you think that's all within the ambit of what good journalism should be. I don't.
uhhhhhh.....He was a former chamber employee applying for a different job that was not in Athens hence the word former.
The root of Blake's post was the heated argument between Elton and Lowry and Lowry's comments about such. Therefore, and in my opinion, I think the rest of the post is funny and in the spirit of the two commissioners childish little schoolyard spat.
oh admit it. You're just mad about the whole bong water comment.
"uhhhhhh.....He was a former chamber employee applying for a different job that was not in Athens hence the word former."
In that case, the matter should have been b/w him and his new Chamber.
PS: I don't disagree w/ you about the nature of the post. I guess my point is that I think that it is unwise for journalists to try to wear two such hats --journalist and comedian-- as adventures into the latter tend to undermine one's reputation as the former. I think that there needs to be a distinction b/w journalism and gossip (which is why I have a problem w/ the news networks and their stupid "feel good" stories that they always put at the end of the broadcast --I guess there isn't enough real news going on in the world to fill 30 minutes an evening). I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
Everybody knows Al puts Jittery Joes in his bongs, lol, what's the big deal?
The wake and bake terrapin formulation lends a tickle to even the worst swag, and on a Mayoral salary, there's no budget, this year or over the next two year cycle, for that matter, for anything better.
Leave the mans bong alone!
Agreed. We should cry too much over spilled bong water.
BTW: Does the commission buy their pot from sustainable, family freindly farms. Well they should. And enough about Al, I'm sure there's a lot of "greenspace" in a few commissoner's homes as well.
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