This bothers me on several leverls.....
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189880)
Boise, Idaho
August 14, 2010 12:03am CST
http://www.kivitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12959973
I think that freedom of speech should be just that. Office Hightower has been around for many years and it has been my experience that she doesn't do anything that isn't ethical and above board. She used to be on one of the television channels and then she went to the Police Department.**( Notice the picture of her. Is it not the most horrid thing you have ever seen. I would throw a tizzy just over the picture.)And I agree with Mr. Frazier that the incident is petty. I think he has a right to blog but I also think Hightower has a right to close his access if she's see fit. He shouldn't use government acess if he doesn't have credicials to do so. Let him find another way to publicize his opinions. When people start doing that I think it takes away from the seriousness of what he is trying to do. I think we as writers,bloggers,journalists, etc. need to be careful how we persue our writing and where we publish it just for this reason. And sometime it is the way we write what we want to be heard or read too. Agressiveness and immaturity turns people off and then what you are trying to say becomes nothing but jibberish. People that go about it wrong make us all look bad. Any comments? Thoughts?
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
14 Aug 10
I think that although people should be able to write and say what they feel...I also believe there is the responsibility to do it with a certain etiquette. You are right about the way something is presented. The content may be something the whole world would want to see but if it is presented in a disrespectful manner...no one will want to read it. Just my opinion.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Aug 10
Exactly. And if these type people were smart they would surely realize that by putting their information out there in a disrespectful manner hurts their reputation as journalists and nullifies anything they are trying to say.
@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
15 Aug 10
Yes, he sure did and it gives writers all a bad name when people handle things incorrectly in getting their information out there.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
14 Aug 10
hi celticeagle I do agree that as writers we all should be careful to pursue our writing in the right channels, not taking advantage by
using something you have no credentials to use. If we are not ethical
and above board we will not be heard, but turned off in people's minds.
There is a great difference between a tabloid like the National Inqurier
and a top rated newspaper like the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times we read one, and make fun of t he other one.
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@celticeagle (189880)
• Boise, Idaho
16 Aug 10
I so agree! I have seen and heard that lady(Office Hightower) for years and know her to be ethecial and also responsible. The Idaho Statesman is very good paper. By no means a tabloid.
