The Virginian Pilot weighed in on the issue of the blogger code in an editorial today.
The Internet hasn’t changed the fact that most people still live by the Golden Rule and watch what they say. That’s about all the code the Internet needs – exactly the same code as the water cooler and the local bar.
Head over and read the whole thing.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
I remember some one saying at Sorenson you should never post anything that your mother wouldn’t smack you in the back of your head for…
Remember who that was?
Glad you liked. The mean mean boys over at Bearing Drift hated the one I wrote on the Factor’s fact problems.
STD, you are so right about that. And David, I liked what you wrote over at BD – but then I’m a not mean girl 🙂
David,
It is not you I dislike: It is your paper 🙂
The Virginian-pilot.. AKA NYT/AP/LAT/WAPO reprint resource 🙂
Vivian, will you tell Squeak I am not talking to him. I feel personally smeared.
Thanks A I W….
I see you were paying attention in class also 🙂
Hey now. I’m the one who called out the Pilot bashfest. This one, however, was very astute and well-written…..so I couldn’t write about it 🙂
Actually, I’m starting to recognize Dave’s writing style. I figured this one was his.
And Dave, sorry – no one can tell SW anything 😉
I see no one is touching Chris’ comment….I wasn’t at Sorenson, so I’d like to know…who was saying that at Sorenson??
I think we should have a Blog Police with an association that regulates blogs, including content. Sort of like the FCC when they hand out licenses. You have to state your format before you get the license and the Federal Blog Communications Commission will decide if there is room in the marketplace for your blog.
They will, like the Pilot, decide who can blog and which comments can or can not appear, and they will decide if you are running your blog according to their regulations. They will even decide if you should be allowed to smoke while blogging and if your visitors must be provided with a no smoking / smoking section of your blog, whether you will have to be in a booster seat or not while blogging and so forth. What think ye?
Grumpy, you remind me of my father: a democrat, he has a habit of calling into conservative talk radio to espouse some truly crazy radical right ideas just as a subtle mockery of the entire format an audience. I once heard him call in during a show about how gay marriage is destroying the family unit. His “opinion” went: “It seems like not only is gay sex destroying the family, but all this unmarried sex is doing the same thing by making all these babies that aren’t born into a structured family. I think we need to make a major focus of the conservative religious-right agenda enforcing paternity tests on children born out of wedlock so we can force the parents to marry and raise their illegitimate children the way God intended: one man and one woman. Thanks for taking my call, have a blessed day!”
I immediately turned my car around and drove 40 minutes to his house to yell at him: “STOP DOING THAT! You never know when that sort of joke is going to backfire and people start thinking it’s a good idea.” 😉
I remind me of my dad who is absolutely convinced that the reason this country is so messed up is because Ed Sullivan allowed the Beatles to play on his show. He advocated banning the Beatles and all Beatles music.
I hate the Beatles.
Oh… I am not a Democrat. I am me and claim no particular party affiliation. I’m an equal opportunity blogger.