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In her final State of the City address, Salisbury (MD) Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman warned residents of what she sees as a great danger to the city: malicious bloggers. Tilghman said in her address Thursday that over the last five years, the presence of a small group of suspicious, mean-spirited people focused on the negative has grown, endangering the city’s vitality. Tilghman says some people are avoiding serving their city because it’s not worth chancing the scorn of bloggers. But Tilghman says they need to stand up for the city/AP. More here.
Question: In Coeur d’Alene, there are three online sites that touch of city of Coeur d’Alene business regularly — this one, OpenCDA.com, and the Coeur d’Alene Press comments section. The latter two sites are openly antagonistic to Mayor Sandi Bloem’s administration. Do you think those sites help or hurt the city?
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hhuseland on March 16 at 6:40 p.m.
The complaint of a Maryland Mayor, frustrated over the image portrayed by bloggers, is lashing out. At no time in our history, except perhaps villages in revolutionary times.has the person on the street had such a voice. Suddenly, from every corner, politicians are being held responsible for their words and actions because more citizens have access to them and this makes them uncomfortable. Folks, this is democracy in action. Because suddenly we have more people paying attention, and perhaps being more critical is freedom of speech at it’s finest hour. Anonymous critics, however, are a pox on our house.