Pet Peeve Open Thread [Update at end]
By SusanUnPC on September 22, 2008 at 3:58 PM in Open Thread
There’s almost nothing that makes a writer more peeved, and frankly insulted, than to find the first comments below one’s writing to be completely irrelevant to the content of the writer’s story.
The writers for this blog work hard on researching and writing a story in a way that communicates their thoughts and findings accurately. I fully understand how exciting it is to find a new story and want to share it with everyone immediately. But the best ways to honor the writer’s current post, yet to get your hot info up, are:
1) find a related post under which to add a comment. E.g., if you have info on Penny Pritzker, put it in Truthteller’s exceptional investigative report on Pritzker, which from the number of comments it appears not NEARLY ENOUGH people read and digested. I cannot emphasize enough how important Truthteller’s findings are — in my humble opinion, they’re more critical than the earlier stories about Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines/Fannie Mae/Obama receipt of lobbying funds. Thankfully, the first comments to Truthteller’s post are on subject, but some people were posting about Obama’s brother in Kenya and other assorted subjects irrelevant to the post.
2) shoot me an e-mail (susanunpc at gmail dot com) and request an open thread, like this one, where you can post whatever hot topic you wish to share with others.
I’m trying not to be “fussy” about this, but ALL of you readers are the most critical parts of our team! We want to read what YOUR thoughts are — even more than we want to read our own writings. We just want the proper venues to be used to the expression of your ideas.
THE MORE YOU HELP US, THE BETTER and FASTER WE CAN GET YOUR IDEAS OUT THERE!
P.S. If you have a truly hot idea and/or information, try to send it in a mode where I can just copy and paste your information into a post, and click “Publish.” It’s hard if you send us lots of links, or some generalized ideas with no quotes and links to back up your ideas. Help us by giving us organized thoughts and sourced links/quotes so we can easily convert your great info into a quickly-written post. Thanks a lot!
P.P.S. Do re-read Truthteller’s superb report, loaded with well-sourced facts, on Penny Pritzker’s critical role in Barack Obama’s political journey, for a long time, as well as her highly dubious associations with the origins of the subprime mortgage scam that has shaken this nation’s economy to its foundations.
It’s pretty damn repugnant that Barack Obama is so close to the woman who was a key originator of the subprime scheme as well as a contributor to the demise of a major Chicago bank.
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And, now: HERE IS YOUR WIDE-OPEN OPEN THREAD! Talk about whatever is on your mind!
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UPDATE: All readers, please feel free to speak up when you spot a comment that’s irrelevant to the current topic. Ask the person to post it in a more relevant thread, or to e-mail me. Thanks so much!
After all, it’s mostly you readers who alert me whenever there are nasty, lewd or racist comments. Without your taking the time to let me know, we’d miss half the nasty comments that get posted here. Thank you very, very much.
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