Responding To An Angry Reader
On a Facebook post sharing Phil Faccenda’s excellent piece from yesterday, Angry Reader Dennis Granlie really let us have it.
He writes, “You really need to change the name of this blog to “Sore Losers’ Page.” You simply must accept that Rick lost the election and stop trying to litigate it time and time again! When you’re in a hole, the smart thing to do is quit digging.”
As further — actually, any — research on Granlie’s part would indicate, Faccenda’s column did not “litigate” the Rick Tryon/Tracy Houck/campaign finance fiasco or Tryon’s election loss. In fact, we have not written a single word about it in any of our other posts, nor will we. Granlie’s right; Houck won, Tryon lost, and that’s that.
But because Granlie’s post was so mean-spirited (not to mention inaccurate), we will indulge him this: for the next day, E-City Beat will be renamed, “Sore Losers’ Page.”
Maybe Granlie will be a little less angry.
These are the same people who declared that Trump wasn’t their president and won’t let go of that bone. Do as I say not as I do!
I’ll be up front folks, I’m a Teddy Roosevelt Progressive and I consider E-City Beat a vital asset to a vigorous discussion and debate about our local community and it’s goals, and although I disagree with a few of the national kind of stories, I APPRECIATE the local concerns and invite ALL to weigh in, because it’s NOT happening in the commercial TV media and not at the GF Tribune, which is ‘fading away’ and now reducing letters to the editor down
to 200 words, severely limiting guest editorials and deep, insightful coverage of city/county government just above nominal.
As Voltair said, “I may not agree with what you say, BUT I’ll defend your right to say it” and as a retired Army veteran and active Citizen, I encourage others to make posts if they disagree with posts on this blog and conservations go both ways, let’s do that and hat’s off again to Gregg Smith’s early work on Electric City Weblog, which WAS vital to highlighting the struggles of citizens to DEMAND accountability at River City’s CITY HALL and local government, especially on ECP’s illegal operations which still hasn’t been ever dealt with.
Great Falls Tribune isn’t a NEWSpaper anymore. It’s an opinion purveyor. I went to their website tonight and the first item that popped up on the page was “Linda Caricaburu named Athena Award winner”: http://www.greatfallstribune.com/story/news/local/2017/04/05/linda-caricaburu-named-athena-award-winner/100101188/
This rah-rah piece about the Great Falls’ crony network awarding yet another honor to one of its own, is so poorly written it is painful to read (look at the stumbling, passive-voiced lede for instance). Even more striking–this blatant opinion expressed by the writer:
“Caricaburu was a determined worker for the RECENTLY VOTER-PASSED SCHOOL LEVY, WHICH WILL HAVE A LASTING POSITIVE EFFECT ON GREAT FALLS SCHOOLS FOR YEARS TO COME.” (emphasis added)
That statement is not a fact as we have yet to see if there will be a “lasting positive effect” from the substantial amount of money we are handing over to Great Falls Public Schools.
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