Comments on: The Herald Times fires back

By: Caleb

Caleb — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:27:42 +0000

Jill – one of the reasons that papers will publish databases like this is specifically to generate traffic. I had to make the difficult editorial decision on whether or not to link to them directly and thus grant their traffic wish, or to simply inform without linking.

I chose the latter because the goal here is to cost the HTO money, and linking to them drives pageviews to their site which help their ad revenue.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:59:26 +0000

So, I went through all of the hyperlinks to yourself that you provide in all of your posts for this travesty, and other than direct email contacts for the paper, I can’t find a link to the database that you decry.

I’m on your side, and after having clicked every back link, I’m kind of perterbed at having searched the bloomington online myself, and found that site so unorganized that nothinig can be be reasonably found on it, I ask; what difference does this make?

And I’m pretty dissapointed you provided no links for anything other than harrassment.

Shoddy.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 02:52:59 +0000

I don’t understand why you’re surprised. They’re journalists. I’ve yet to read a newspaper story on a subject in which I was familiar that wasn’t riddled with mistakes.
Why should their story on the Personal Protection Permit database be any different?
Whether the story is on politics, the economy, science, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, etc … they routinely miss the mark.
I quit taking the Indy paper several years ago because it was a waste of time.

By: jbomultigun

jbomultigun — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:46:50 +0000

Stuff like this is one of the reasons I’m glad I no longer live in Indiana. This isn’t the first newspaper in IN to pull this particularly offensive stunt, and it certainly won’t be the last, unless the law is changed.

Tamara’s right. After the first go-round when the newspaper basically flipped you the bird, the next step should have been to elevate your complaints to the advertisers.

By: mike w.

mike w. — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:35:24 +0000

^ We’re not going to publish names and addresses of the Jews. We’re just making them wear yellow stars so you’ll know if there are Jews on your street.

By: Turk Turon

Turk Turon — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:23:20 +0000

The newspaper’s tepid response makes me think of Joe Huffman’s “Jews In The Attic” test. What if we replaced this:

“A vast majority of them misunderstood, from what the NRA had sent them, that we planned to publish names and addresses, which was never under consideration.”

with this:

“A vast majority of them misunderstood, from what B’nai Brith had sent them, that we planned to publish names and addresses of Jews, which was never under consideration.”

By: Freiheit

Freiheit — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:06:34 +0000

How is the fight going one level up from HTO?

After all they are publishing something thats public record anyway. What have the IN legislators and governor said about listing permit holders as public record??

By: Caleb

Caleb — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:55:53 +0000

I like where your head is at on that. Also, contact state legislators so we can prevent this kind of bullcrap from continuing

By: Tam

Tam — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:30:09 +0000

Screw contacting the paper’s staff, everybody needs to be contacting the paper’s advertisers. Then the editors can do an in-depth investigative report on the state’s unemployment benefits system while they freeze in the dark.