Dusty Bin wrote:
I don’t know what you’re getting on your high horse about Wharfy – the flyer we sent out pointed out that there were no news stories because of the festive season, and therefore there were just four opinions. So far we’ve generally had a mixture of news and opinion. The news has generally been national stuff, plus a few local bits and pieces relating to places that are well known to contributors.
As for other local news, most of the stuff in the trade publications is taken from the local press, which I assume they have to pay for. We have no subscription income or advertising revenue, so there’s not much chance of us paying for the privilege of carrying local news stories from the provincial press. Indeed, the site and forum is paid for out of our own pockets and maintained in our own time, and all we get in return is grief from people like yourself who seem to think that we should be following your agenda instead of our own.
If you look at other trade publications most of the articles are either opinion or stuff from the local press, so to the extent that we can’t pay for the latter then we’re just the same as them, so what’s the problem? The site can easily be redesigned to carry a few local stories as well, so if you want to pay for them out of your own pocket then go ahead, but otherwise we can’t really do much more.
As I said the trade press has plenty of opinion pieces, and ours are clearly marked as such. In any case, just because something masquerades as news, for example, that doesn’t mean to say that it is. Look at Cab Trade News, for example, where there is actually little in the way of actual news in the sense that you mean it, but most of us are adult enough to realise this and don’t make a song and dance about it.
I really can’t see the problem – we’ve had opinion pieces from both sides of the argument, and if the T&G had asked us to include their OFT submission (or anything else for that matter) then we would have done so. And there’s also the forum for anyone to reply.
I’m not exactly sure what your point is, but I can’t see any of the established trade publications trying to encourage free speech and different opinions in the way that we are.
If you don’t like it then you can always set up your own site.
Dusty
If you dont know what I am getting at why the long defense?
and the agenda one is revealing, what is your agenda?
you know exactly what I am getting at and judging from your reply, underneath that tin you think I have a point. indeed I have.
I remember reading that you intended all your news stories to be fact.
the one about copying and fees is a red herring there are scores of copies of local stories.
and what grief are you talking about? thought this site believed in free speach?
you are beggining to sound like the failures, which you are not, after all you are currently running the buisiest cab site on the webb. and overall you are doing a good job.
now binnie stop showing the soft exterior, bins get thrown around all day.
take it you had a bad night?
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