This morning: an exploratory study in local political Internet vigilantism
No doubt about it. Whatcom County's anonymous bloggers (on both sides of the political spectrum) provide many hours of endless entertainment by supplying us with a never ending list of conspiracy theories, illogical charts and articles.
Just in case you missed it.
Link to 8/12 Whatcom Excavator post. And, in response to the post and the original flow chart, a Link to The Political Junkie article critiquing the Whatcom Excavator's entertaining chart. Note to "editors" of the Whatcom Excavator - put on your big girl and boy pants and blog under your own names, that is, if you expect to be taken seriously.
"Blogger handle"s like "Publius" or "ApexNerd" are acceptable - but only if the majority of your readers actually know who is writing the articles!
I wonder, is the "author" of this chart also the author of the chart printed on NW Citizen a couple of years back? (Perhaps the editor of NW Citizen can provide us a link to the first flow chart, that is similar to the one posted by the Whatcom Excavator).
What a hoot!
Just like to note that both ApexNerd and the Political Junkie both blog under their own names. You can even see mine in the banner of my website. We stand behind our reporting. I wish Whatcom Excavator had the courage of their convictions and would stand behind their words as well.
ReplyDeleteI agree whole heartedly.
DeleteThat's what I meant - even if it didn't come out that way...
DeleteIt came across. I just wanted to drive that point home with a hammer.
DeleteIt is news to me that ApexNerd blogs under his/her own name. Now I feel like an idiot, because as an occasional visitor to the site, I've not been successful in confirming my suspicion that ApexNerd is Shane Roth - I think I got that clue on another website some time ago. If you click on the Contributor links for "ApexNerd" and "Administrator" they come up blank.
DeleteDon't get me wrong, I like the blog; just haven't been successful in finding the real names.
It's news to me that ApexNerd blogs under his/her own name. As an occasional visitor to this site, I've yet to be successful in finding that name here. I like the blog, just not able to find that info. If it's here somewhere, it's pretty well hidden. Either that, or I'm a moron, which is possible.
DeleteNot that it matters a great deal. I happen to think there are a lot of good reasons to blog anonymously. And some bad ones.
Well, I learned something from that chart, Sam Crawford is Pro-Gaia!
ReplyDeleteSam Crawford is pro Gaia? Well, push me over with a feather!
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Shane Roth, otherwise known as ApexNerd, often signs his letters and other posts with his full name on Latte Republic. Sometimes, he just posts under ApexNerd. Former Bellingham Herald reporter Sam Taylor announced ApexNerd's identity years ago in one of his Political Blog posts. Shane has also appeared on various talk shows on KGMI, a local radio station that is part of the Cascade Group. In other words, Shane isn't trying to keep his identity secret.
ReplyDeleteOne final statement for David MacLeod. Blogger changed it's format in 2012. Not sure why it deleted the information about the contributors to blogs. But it did. Now, Blogger wants contributors to blogs to set up a public Google account that isn't part of the blog. You must be a fairly new reader, since the information regarding contributors, including email addresses, was posted on Latte Republic for years (since 2007). In fact, we have a new writer, Mike, and neither he or I can figure out how to get him linked to the Contributors list. So, he will just be sending his posts via email to an administrator, who, in turn can post it on his behalf.
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