Experimentation bleg.  I’m sure he won’t mind if I post it:
Dear reader, I am making a personal appeal to you (well, as personal as including you on a list of undisclosed recipients can get), to encourage you to participate in my project of seeing whether the L.A. Times Readers’ Rep blog is willing to publish comments critical of the paper.I am collecting examples of critical comments that don’t get published. I have noticed that, so far, they’re basically deep-sixing almost all criticism.Why not join in the fun? Leave a comment that is critical of the paper on that “Introduction” post.  Save it before hitting “submit”!  If it doesn’t get published, I’ll post it.Go to this link and leave your polite but pointed, specific, and fact-based criticism of the paper. It doesn’t *have* to be about Tim Rutten. Just whatever you don’t like about the paper.Make sure to save your comment before you submit it! Then e-mail it to me, and/or publish it as a comment to my post linked above. If the LAT doesn’t publish it, I will — in a post about their refusal to approve critical comments. I hope you’ll be willing to help out.P ÂÂ
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Is the LAT somehow required to allow comments that are critical of them? I mean, it’s kind of chickenshit if they dont allow both favorable & critical comments but since when do they have to allow them? An awful lot of blogs shut down or edit out comments they dont like..
No, the point is that they make it appear as though they continue to host the critical comments to the person who made them, whilst they are made invisible to everyone else. Clever, huh?
Also, the blog of the readers’ rep is supposed to deal with complaints. That’s largely what it’s for.
Yikes! Fix the links, please!
“..Clever, huh?”
Diabolically chickenshit is more like it… =)
Sorry, Pabs–that’s the way the email came to me. Do you want me to cut and paste? Too much orange?
I second Pablo’s motion; I’m using a fairly high resolution setting and it still exceeds the width of my screen. Scrolling side-to-side is against my religion.
No, not cut and paste: enclose the URLs in <A> tags so that they don’t blow out the browser width.
Dan broke the blog … I’m telling.
Get yourself an IBM Scrollpoint mouse, McGehee, and renounce your evil, cultish ways… The wonders of this mouse mean that I can scroll sideways as quickly and easily as I scroll upways and downways.
but, Jim, most of us don’t want to scroll side to side. and I’m on a laptop, so no mouse just a touchpad.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. Here. http://tinyurl.com/yt9hgd
Sorry. It showed up as normal pagewidth in my browser.
I’d have tried to say something bad about the LA Times to join in the experiment, but I couldn’t think of anything useful at the moment. I did look at their ethics policy, and unlike our local paper here they actually do mention fairness and accuracy. I doubt they live up to it, but the KC Star doesn’t care whether they’re fair or not, they just don’t want you thinking they get paid not to be.
Oh, and it’s not so much that I want to, Maggie, it’s that I can. On a whim. Or whenever Collins breaks the blog.
(I use one on my laptops, too. It’s optical, tracks like a charm on the upholstery of the couch, even. I hate those touchpad things.)
Well, I had a nifty scroll ball thingy, but then my children dropped it.
Besides, here at PW, we have certain standards.
sorry, I’m extra cranky. had to show up for jury duty today. turns out it was for a death penalty case so they had everyone fill out forms giving their life history and philosophical views. I don’t think I’ll make the finals.
I’d be tempted to give a completely fictional life history under those circumstances.
“Prior to the age of 8, when I ran away and joined the circus, I was raised by wild dogs. After a stint doing maintenance on the Tilt-a-Whirl, I put myself through college by scraping roadkill from the interstate highway system. I’m kind to the elderly and like bacon.”
yeah, I did list Days of our Lives as a tv show or movie I’d seen about the death penalty.
HA!
I had jury duty yesterday, but I no-showed because I’ve moved (out of the county) – but I’m still worried I’m going to get in trouble. But, there was NO WAY I was driving an hour and a half for it.
I cranked up my monitor resolution to 1600 x 1200 and it eliminated the horizontal scrollbar.
However, now I have to use a magnifying glass to watch Breitbart.tv
My favorite girlfriend from my youth ended up marrying one of the LAT Exec Editors. so in a sense LAT stole my woman! Can I bitch about it on their blog (30 years after the fact) or is that too weird and stalkerish ?
maggie, did you tell them that you can smell guilty from a mile away? They like that in a juror.
I think maggie should have just started singing all her answers. She could say she was auditioning for jury duty.
I’m not posting to the LA Times, but if I were I would say I hate this honking ad they’ve got blaring at me from every website.
I once saw a juror in voir dire, claim that the grocery chain being sued had dishonest advertising practices, that he had issues with disabled people, that his religion prevented him from passing judgement on other people, and that he was an atheist, and would not swear to uphold his duty. It was the greatest length I have seen a juror go to in order to get out of jury duty.
yeah, so RTO and I were discussing and maybe you can answer this JD. when would not answering a question on one of these things become a problem. because by the time I reached “list three men and three women you respect” I’d had it. I just listed my congress critters and then skipped “list three men and three women you would not respect.” or something like that. well, not skipped so much as just wrote, “pick an actor” oh, and I really don’t know my work phone number.
How long are those things usually? this was something like 15 to 20 pages.