Comments on: Andre Walker: APN got money from three candidates

By: griftdrift

griftdrift — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:58:42 +0000

Ken. See my last two comments at my place.

http://griftdrift.blogspot.com/2008/07/spitting-tacks.html

I think we’re ready to call a truce. But I would like the conversation to continue.

By: Ken Edelstein

Ken Edelstein — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:16:43 +0000

Griftdrift:

Sorry I took so long to respond. Our server problems set me back a bit.

Raising the issue of anonymity wasn’t intended to offend or attack. Honestly. If it came across that way, then I didn’t communicate it effectively.

Maybe we just have to agree to disagree: I do think anonymity is more opaque than a person’s name. But — again — that’s not an attack. And as I said above, I don’t at all begrudge any blogger who uses a handle.

And I should say this, since you raised the point: I don’t agree with everything that every CL writer writes, and frankly I’ve many times cringed at word choices after the fact (sometimes my own). At the end of the day, I hope we’re fair and open and accurate, and that we give people an opportunity to respond. If anyone feels that a CL writer was unfair to them or wrote something inaccurate about them, I urge them not only to comment, but also to e-mail me at ken.edelstein@creativeloafing.com.

Grifdrift, if you want to talk about this further, please e-mail me. Or comment. Whatever.

Thanks,
Ken

By: Anne Cox See Me In Chambers

Anne Cox See Me In Chambers — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:42:37 +0000

Oh for f’s sake… did you have to go and out good ‘ole Louise Bryant Park, for cryin’ out loud? She was my oldest and most favored. Gawd, writers are all so f*cking humorless when you get down to it.

By: Just Too Bad About Sandy

Just Too Bad About Sandy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:38:08 +0000

Boy, you go out to spend some hard earned, or not, Daddy’s money on tax holiday, you sure miss a par-tee!

If there was ever a time for a big ass pow-wow, now would be it. I bring the big ass; y’all bring the pow-wow. (I’ll buy a ’round for who can tell me who sang/wrote this afternoon’s nome de plum.) Or is it nome de guerre in this case… BTF outta me.

Usual saloon. 7:30pm – ish.

By: DaleC aka Soodo Knim

DaleC aka Soodo Knim — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:38:52 +0000

can’t we all just…get along?

By: griftdrift

griftdrift — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:33:02 +0000

Given the amount of crap this particular place has given Duane and Amber in the past year sometimes its tough to tell what’s a joke and what’s not.

By: griftdrift

griftdrift — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:31:26 +0000

Oh and Ken. Maybe if every newpaper editor wasn’t intent on being Torquemada there wouldn’t be any need for “grand defenders”.

By: Mr. T

Mr. T — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:30:53 +0000

You are one serious dude, huh? I was just having a joke. Rarely do I enjoy anyone’s blog as much as I enjoy Duane’s.

By: griftdrift

griftdrift — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:27:45 +0000

Or maybe they had absolutely nothing to do with this Matt. Never let someone on CL pass on taking a poke at their favorite punching bags.

By: Mr. T

Mr. T — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:23:16 +0000

Oh Ken, you knew it was me all along. And, as a lover of great journalism (blog or not), I enjoyed you bringing up the side issue because it is the single largest hindrance to what grift and those quality bloggers out there want: the respect many of them are due.

What I can’t believe is that Duane Moody and Amber Rhea have allowed me to attack their credibility, however tangentially, without completing going apeshit. Maybe they’re not as thin-skinned as we think.