tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8386011644341947580..comments2024-03-13T14:53:25.892-05:00Comments on Advance Indiana™: Indianapolis Newspaper Guild Issues "Declaration Of Resistance" Blasting Gannett-Owned StarGary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79666914080589737982014-07-06T09:28:50.391-05:002014-07-06T09:28:50.391-05:00Incestuous & slavish devotion to a statist nar...Incestuous & slavish devotion to a statist narrative, by the Cleverly Quill Billies of "modern journalism," resulted in the non-investment grade, lame-stream medi-uhh; predictably losing out to blogs like this one.<br /><br />Anon 7:36 is right about the Ryerson / Gannett comment wall; insidiously constructed during the property tax fiasco of 2007, when there was talk of repeal. Nothin' scares a quill billy more than talk of Constitutionally reconciled government & tax repeal... Pete Boggshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12948800585492289789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-79432198379312139882014-07-05T11:34:19.897-05:002014-07-05T11:34:19.897-05:00Anon 7:36 PM good comment on the free anonymous co...Anon 7:36 PM good comment on the free anonymous commenting being eliminated by The Star. It had its share of trolls but that's life on the Internet. <br /><br />We still have greater Freedom here in the USA than some other countries in terms of speech. Two thoughts I have. One we have the Mega McMedia sanitizing what we read or hear. Second, even though we can express ourselves, the ability to change the political environment has greatly diminished. Republicans and Democrats may disagree on some Social Issues, but both parties are united and intertwined in the support of Crony-Capitalism. <br /><br />We know of the spying by the NSA, etc., but now we have a battle over Net Neutrality. As if the sanitized McMedia is not enough, we now have forces that want to establish a "Fast Lane" Internet. Of course it will be a Pay to Play fast lane. The Mega McMedia will be able afford the fast lane. <br /><br />The Mega-Media controls the content, the NSA and their fellow travelers spy on us, and the Third Rail is the Internet Fast Lane. Floggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10383015097067413086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-52502003533761133482014-07-05T08:35:57.927-05:002014-07-05T08:35:57.927-05:00I get more real news from Gary than I get from the...I get more real news from Gary than I get from the Star. Maybe its underpaid reporters should start a blog like AA and begin REAL reporting.LamLawIndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06039906566586150323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-38275684616475954492014-07-04T22:27:18.060-05:002014-07-04T22:27:18.060-05:00Editors knew for two years that Judge Payne was in...Editors knew for two years that Judge Payne was in violation of FSSA/DCS matters and reporters were told to sit on the stories...Can they be held accountable for neglect, abuse and more...The Editors?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-33994028029592348002014-07-04T19:36:43.171-05:002014-07-04T19:36:43.171-05:00To me, the death of the Indianapolis Star came the...To me, the death of the Indianapolis Star came the day then editor Dennis Ryerson announced that there would no longer be free, anonymous commenting to daily news articles and that from that day forward only Facebook registered and telephone number confirmed commenters could speak. A Tully column that used to attract 200 comments would only get three or four comments under the new registration. Tips disappeared. Real opinion disappeared. Free speech disappeared. The voices of thousands of Indianapolis residents who liked to comment and who liked to read the comments were silenced. Replaced by a few sanitized commenters, with sanitized opinions and Facebook whitewashed accounts. I stopped taking the newspaper. I prefer to give my business to journalists that value free speech and want to hear what the locals have to say. We had a great history of freedom of speech in this country, but we’re losing it fast. We’re being silenced. By Gannett. By the NSA. By Facebook. By a hundred agencies and companies and law enforcement men who chip away at what our freedom of speech used to look like. I’m getting old now. But I remember the way it used to be. Faster and faster we go the way of China, of Iran, of Arab and African and Asian countries where speech is suspect, filtered, and prohibited and where people like bloggers and whistleblowers and free speech advocates are jailed or simply disappear. I will never forgive Gannett for silencing the free voices of the thousands of Indiana citizens who enjoyed commenting to the stories of the day. There won’t be free speech of that kind again until the Gannett paper is replaced by a daily that permits free, anonymous comments. All real journalists believe in unfettered freedom of speech. Indianapolis deserves better than Gannett. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-78641006770928715362014-07-04T18:23:29.803-05:002014-07-04T18:23:29.803-05:00When you're not doing real reporting, you don&...When you're not doing real reporting, you don't need real reporters.<br /><br />Any hack can be a PR shill for Indy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-44028024880490652642014-07-04T16:51:00.597-05:002014-07-04T16:51:00.597-05:00I might add that Gannett is blind to the fact that...I might add that Gannett is blind to the fact that people primarily buy a local newspaper for the <b>local</b> news...and since they took over The Star, the local news as virtually disappeared. The local coverage is minimal, not worth buying the paper for...in fact it looks like they insert a USA Today in every paper. <br /><br />Is that so they get their current subscribers to just transition into their USA Today paper which has no local news?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com