Rocky Mount NC - Rip Wooden Rocky Mount Telegram Publisher "The fiction of bloggers"
Saturday, September 6, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Posted in President Barack Obama
by DCN
First of all glad you have found the time to update your blog.
Now to your most recent posting.
There’s a blog rumor that Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice of a running mate if you’ve been off the planet somewhere, really didn’t have her baby; it was a staged pregnancy to cover up the supposed fact that her 17-year-old daughter had the baby. I put that rumor right up there with the one that saw Elvis at Ihop in Rocky Mount this morning.
(Well sir when I read the post that was sent to me from a yahoogroup that originated from Daily Kos I took in consideration who sent it to me and then I went to the Daily Kos to make sure it came from Daily Kos. After reading the controversy that Palin had hid her pregnancy, my comment was posted [here](http://www.triadblogs.com/curmilus/8265/Daily+Kos+-+Sarah+Palin+Is+NOT+The+Mother+%5BPhotos%2BVideo%5D.html ). TPA
My problem is that a reader can no longer trust anything read or said. These folks are in the entertainment business, not the news business.
(I don't care where I get information from, be it a resource that may include family and friends I research it and then make a decision to post it on my blog. I don't blog for entertainment but for the purpose of educating folks on what is going on around them. My [Disclaimer](http://www.triadblogs.com/curmilus/6919/Disclaimer.html )speaks for me.) TPA
I’m all for discussing the pros and cons of McCain’s choice (really stupid or really brilliant based on your party affiliation), but rumors and fabrications serve no useful purpose. It’s an electronic version of the “yellow journalism” from the 1930s.
(I like the way you only speak of McCain's choice however Obama has been lied on for how long now? So you say trust in the newspaper? Well don't show any bias. But I guess I could assume you are not a Democrat. Oh well. "Yellow journalism"? 1930's and still alive in 2008.) TPA
While newspapers make mistakes, we make a big effort to check our facts and we certainly don’t mislead intentionally. By all means read a blog when you’ve got time to kill and need a laugh. But if you’re serious about news, read a newspaper.
(Oh hell no don't go there. I know as a blogger I be damn if I post information to mislead intentionally. I don't post to mislead but again to put the information out there and those who read need to keep my [Disclaimer](http://www.triadblogs.com/curmilus/6919/Disclaimer.html) in mind at all times.
As it relates to my blogging and the reading the newspaper because it is the gospel, "truth," that is bull manure because I have challenged this newspaper and several others over the years because I was at the meetings when this newspaper and others have printed something that I didn't agree with.
Also I attend meetings and I report on what happens at the meeting before the newspapers come out online or in print. So in other words, they read about it before it is in your newspaper and others. When your newspaper come out, I go back and add the link from your newspaper and others who were present so my readers can see what ya'll had to say.
I refuse to allow you to put all bloggers in the same category just like I refuse to put all newspapers in the same category.
Again glad you found time to update your blog because it sure didn't look good outdated.) TPA
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