Comments on: the El Paso issue rumbles on… http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/ Journalist Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:44:24 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: bernard http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3299 bernard Tue, 04 Apr 2006 07:26:05 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3299 Riddle me this then: Why were some comments removed? I don't think just for the fun of it. Riddle me this then:

Why were some comments removed?

I don’t think just for the fun of it.

]]> By: Bernie Goldbach http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3298 Bernie Goldbach Tue, 04 Apr 2006 05:08:43 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3298 If the mainstream blogging community was snooty, it would never admit to reading--and then beatifying--Twenty Major. So if those same mainstream readers say El Paso is in a corner, that probably means a whole lot of off-line direct discussion among those in the Irish blogging community. Funnily enough, the El Paso guys don't seem to be part of any conversation except among themselves. If the mainstream blogging community was snooty, it would never admit to reading–and then beatifying–Twenty Major. So if those same mainstream readers say El Paso is in a corner, that probably means a whole lot of off-line direct discussion among those in the Irish blogging community. Funnily enough, the El Paso guys don’t seem to be part of any conversation except among themselves.

]]> By: Tuppenceworth.ie blog » Viva El Paso! http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3297 Tuppenceworth.ie blog » Viva El Paso! Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:41:28 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3297 [...] I’ve said it about bloggers before, and no doubt I’ll say it again: “Get over yourselves”. El Paso is more about Dundalk than it is about blogging, which may be why certain sophisticates find it embarrassing. Runningwithbulls has understandable reasons for not finding the joke all that funny, but I note, for example, that Adam Maguire, with his talk of “quality and integrity” has clambered onto an inappropriately high horse. Similarly, the usually sensible Maman Poulet, like a village busybody lamenting a local n’er-do-well asks ‘Was anyone surprised it was them who got themselves into this mess?’. Further, she has suggested that El Paso is irresponsible and “has it’s own agenda”. Now doesn’t this imply that they should instead adhere to some other agenda? Perhaps one deemed appropriate by the “blogging community”? This to me is indicative of a snooty, “Irish Blog Establishment” attitude. Only a few weeks after the first ever Blog Awards and we already have elder statesmen turning up their noses at provincial oiks. Forgive me if I’m not impressed. If El Paso defames someone, the victims have a remedy in libel. Let them seek such remedy if they wish, but don’t everyone else come the scold, bleating “you’re only ruining it for everyone else”. El Paso» [...] [...] I’ve said it about bloggers before, and no doubt I’ll say it again: “Get over yourselves”. El Paso is more about Dundalk than it is about blogging, which may be why certain sophisticates find it embarrassing. Runningwithbulls has understandable reasons for not finding the joke all that funny, but I note, for example, that Adam Maguire, with his talk of “quality and integrity” has clambered onto an inappropriately high horse. Similarly, the usually sensible Maman Poulet, like a village busybody lamenting a local n’er-do-well asks ‘Was anyone surprised it was them who got themselves into this mess?’. Further, she has suggested that El Paso is irresponsible and “has it’s own agenda”. Now doesn’t this imply that they should instead adhere to some other agenda? Perhaps one deemed appropriate by the “blogging community”? This to me is indicative of a snooty, “Irish Blog Establishment” attitude. Only a few weeks after the first ever Blog Awards and we already have elder statesmen turning up their noses at provincial oiks. Forgive me if I’m not impressed. If El Paso defames someone, the victims have a remedy in libel. Let them seek such remedy if they wish, but don’t everyone else come the scold, bleating “you’re only ruining it for everyone else”. El Paso» [...]

]]> By: Tuppenceworth.ie blog http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3296 Tuppenceworth.ie blog Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:24:49 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3296 <strong>Viva El Paso!</strong> Is it just me or is everyone getting just a little bit overheated about the EL Paso affair? I note a certain self-righteousness about some of the posts, not to mention a rush to judgement. A few details seem to have been lost amid the kerfuffle: 1. ... Viva El Paso!

Is it just me or is everyone getting just a little bit overheated about the EL Paso affair? I note a certain self-righteousness about some of the posts, not to mention a rush to judgement. A few details seem to have been lost amid the kerfuffle:
1. …

]]> By: Administrator http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Administrator Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:38:25 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3295 Well, I posted my comment yesterday evening, others seem to have been posted since then so I don't think it's a matter of a backlog... I could be wrong though. As for the blog itself, readership levels are one thing but integrity is another. Of course this blog is entitled to post what it likes, it just better be prepared to deal with the consequences and the same freedom allows myself and others to criticise their actions. Well, I posted my comment yesterday evening, others seem to have been posted since then so I don’t think it’s a matter of a backlog… I could be wrong though.

As for the blog itself, readership levels are one thing but integrity is another. Of course this blog is entitled to post what it likes, it just better be prepared to deal with the consequences and the same freedom allows myself and others to criticise their actions.

]]> By: dealga http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3294 dealga Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:26:37 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3294 There's a load more comments on there now, and they always seem to post comments slagging them off. If comments are awaiting moderation perhaps you could give them a few hours? That blog has readership levels bested by very few other Irish blogs and had them before all this. You mightn't like their style but people in that area like to read that stuff There’s a load more comments on there now, and they always seem to post comments slagging them off. If comments are awaiting moderation perhaps you could give them a few hours?

That blog has readership levels bested by very few other Irish blogs and had them before all this. You mightn’t like their style but people in that area like to read that stuff

]]> By: bernard http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3293 bernard Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:26:27 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3293 I have been speaking to people who have tried to make a comment on the site. They have not been the usual "way to go" comments, and surprise surprise they are not published. The only thing they have done, is affirm that nothing can be believed on that site. I guess you could call them the Weekly Sport of Irish blogs...unfortunately without the sexy girlies :( b I have been speaking to people who have tried to make a comment on the site.

They have not been the usual “way to go” comments, and surprise surprise they are not published.

The only thing they have done, is affirm that nothing can be believed on that site.

I guess you could call them the Weekly Sport of Irish blogs…unfortunately without the sexy girlies :(

b

]]> By: Administrator http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3292 Administrator Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:14:19 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3292 Just thought I'd point out that I made a comment on the El Paso Blog congratulating them on the fact that they've just drawn national (and even international) attention to the libel they've committed on the site by pulling their "prank"... odly, even though other comments post have been critical of the trick my comment has yet to be authorised by "The Editor". Just thought I’d point out that I made a comment on the El Paso Blog congratulating them on the fact that they’ve just drawn national (and even international) attention to the libel they’ve committed on the site by pulling their “prank”… odly, even though other comments post have been critical of the trick my comment has yet to be authorised by “The Editor”.

]]> By: Antoin O Lachtnain http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3291 Antoin O Lachtnain Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:55:44 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3291 Who cares what the NUJ says? The NUJ is an organization for representing the hired help in newsrooms. It doesn't represent or even purport to represent the media in Ireland at all. The NUJ is a fine organization in many ways, but what they think about bloggers is of no relevance to anything. Who cares what the NUJ says? The NUJ is an organization for representing the hired help in newsrooms. It doesn’t represent or even purport to represent the media in Ireland at all. The NUJ is a fine organization in many ways, but what they think about bloggers is of no relevance to anything.

]]> By: Antoin O Lachtnain http://www.adammaguire.com/blog/2006/04/the-el-paso-issue-rumbles-on/comment-page-1/#comment-3290 Antoin O Lachtnain Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:50:53 +0000 http://www.adam-maguire.com/blog/?p=111#comment-3290 Surely the point of a bloggers' group would be to allow bloggers to have a seat on the statutory press council? I think that would be worth doing. Surely the point of a bloggers’ group would be to allow bloggers to have a seat on the statutory press council? I think that would be worth doing.

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