A second
I recall the first time I saw the word blogger in my local newspaper. Now, it’s a second. At some circle jerk (oh crap, there goes that language again) for an embattled local judge, our mayor takes issue with us bloggers:
“Judge Young’s not only been attacked by the unfair reporting, he’s been attacked by some of these bloggers,” he [Cunningham] said. “And the bloggers that do the attacking — if you ever have time to look at that trash — are always anonymous.
“If you’re going to do that, at least have … the testicular fortitude to say it to my face,” he said.
I’m not sure who he’s talking about. Despite being an anonymous blogger in Blount County and the only anonymous blogger in Blount County I know of, I haven’t mentioned judge Young. So, who’s he talking about? It’s a mystery not just to me:
I suppose there have been some anonymous comments re. Judge Young here, but the most outspoken critics, including an attorney involved in one of the cases, have signed their names. Perhaps there are some other blogs he’s referring to.
But seriously. Mayor Cunningham is seriously worried that people are getting involved and actually talking about local government in a forum outside the corporate and government controlled media? What is he so worried about? Was this some kind of preemptive diversionary tactic to head off some other trouble brewing?
By the way, who sent all the letters to Mayor Cunningham demanding an investigation into alleged conflicts of interests involving the few Democrats on County Commission? As far as we know, those people are all still “anonymous”.
November 28th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
The idiots at my local paper continue to refer to the commenter’s on their site as “bloggers”. Maybe this is just an issue of not being able to speak geek.
A comment does not make a blogger be.
November 28th, 2007 at 7:13 pm
Looks like “anonymous blogger” is the new version of the old standard – “they”.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:09 am
Plunking hizzoner’s name into teh Googles pulls up two bloggers full of wrath in just the first two pages, neither of whom uses their full, real name … http://cronespeaks.wordpress.com and http://goldni.blogspot.com/
Crone is known to people who’ve been around a while, in fact, Uncle, you have met her in person .. Calhoun’s last February. “Goldni” is in Nashville, and I don’t see where in the Daily Times article it specifies that the anonymous blogger is in Blount County …. but then, it’s late and my eyes are only half open now.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am
I met her? Which one?
November 29th, 2007 at 11:45 am
First of all, I really don’t think they’re referring to someone like me. I have a blog that gets 50 hits on a good day, and I’m a good three hours away from Blount County.
Also, I’m not entirely anonymous. “GoldnI” is a play on my initials and as I’ve said before, I’ve given out enough information about myself on my blog that if someone REALLY wanted to, it would not be that difficult to figure out who I am.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Uncle, Crone is the one that was at Blogfest. She sat to my left and your right, in between us. She is an older (as in not 20-something) lady, has short light colored hair (not sure if blond or premature gray). She was fairly quiet … of course, being a lefty surrounded by a table full of wingnuts sometimes has that effect. Her blog used to be Thoughts of an Average Woman and she listed her name there as CE Petro.
GoldnI … to those of us who know a little of how these here intarwebs work, yeah we could suss out your real name. But remember, we are dealing with gummint officials that just realized that AOL is NOT the whole internet, and are still marveling over this here new-fangled blogging thing.
November 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Ah, TOAAW. Did not know she moved.