The O Introduces Its Community Writers

Submitted by LynnS on Sun, 11/04/2007 - 10:55pm.

Remember the call the O put out to get people to write for them for free? Here are the folks who volunteered.

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 12:47am.

- Editor and Publisher -
'Plain Dealer' Suspends Political Blog -- After a Resignation and Uproar, By Joe Strupp, November 02, 2007

NEW YORK The Plain Dealer of Cleveland today suspended a controversial politics blog that had sought to provide a different approach by using non-staff established bloggers, both conservative and liberal.

But when one of the two liberal bloggers was asked this week to withhold his comments on a specific congressional race after it was revealed he had contributed to one of the candidates, he resigned. That led to an uproar among other bloggers and some readers, which ended with the second liberal blogger stepping down and the paper deciding the approach was not workable with just two conservatives.

"A car can't run on two wheels, and Wide Open can't continue with only one side of the political spectrum represented," Jean Dubail, assistant managing editor/online, wrote in a note on ...

Like, the lopsided O 'tiger' is going to change its stripes? NOT.

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Is that what this Oregonian deal is going to be?

Submitted by bigboy on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 5:47pm.

Opinion? If there's one thing lacking in today's media, by god it's opinion! *note sarcasm*.

Between TV, radio, newspaper, blogs and loud-mouthed family members, I have my fill, thank you.

Apparently there are no longer facts. Only opinions.

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Actually, there were several

Submitted by Anonymous Source (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 7:00am.

Actually, there were several hundred volunteers -- nearly 1000, as a blog post I can't currently find stated. These dozen were the folks who were selected from that group.

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badly written on my part

Submitted by LynnS on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 10:30am.

I know there were several hundred volunteers and I didn't mean to imply that these were the only takers.

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Lynn Siprelle * Fairy Blogmother

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O Quality

Submitted by Aaron B. Hockley (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 8:37am.

The O can't even format the damned webpage to properly list the folks names and information. Looks like more of the same steaming pile...

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Citizenshits!

Submitted by Matt Davis (not verified) on Mon, 11/05/2007 - 1:43pm.