[RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve

Sat Feb 28 14:05:20 UTC 2009

Good question Todd. And what is the election that is happening in May - I
haven't gotten close enough to read one of the signs yet?

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From: towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org
[mailto:towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org] On Behalf Of Todd Whitehead
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 9:09 PM
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve

I'm going to throw Bruce a bone here:

Why are there signs posted around town advertising an election that isn't
happening until May?

Todd

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From: "bruce.wernek at mindspring.com" <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com>
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 7:05:50 AM
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve

If I read another Town Talk email about chickens, I think I'm going to
croak.

Bruce

-----Original Message----- 
From: Nina Faye 
Sent: Feb 26, 2009 5:09 PM 
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org, thebee32 at aol.com 
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve 

Maya, I think the point of the complaints pertains to the reporter being
asked not to discuss an "illegal" bird that has become part of the
neighborhood.  Printing the information showed a lack of sensitivity to
community desires, code enforcement issues, and community culture.  It is
understandable to troll for stories, but it is also understandable that
there would be backlash when "lines" are crossed.  By the way, we used to
stay at a bed and breakfast in a very upscale area of Philadelphia near
Fairmount Park, where the neighbors had pet chickens.  The neighborhood
loved those chickens, and we enjoyed them as well.  I have also read
articles about chickens in Seattle.  When the topic came up on the HOPE
list, a number of people commented that there was only an unpleasant smell
when they were not properly cared for--just like dog poop and litter boxes.
Nina

--- On Thu, 2/26/09, thebee32 at aol.com <thebee32 at aol.com> wrote:

From: thebee32 at aol.com <thebee32 at aol.com>
Subject: [RP TownTalk] Reporters on the list serve
To: towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 3:39 PM

So, as a former Gazette reporter who covered your town, I decided to stay
out of this conversation. But considering it's been about a week of people
complaining about Ms. Izadi's use of TownTalk to find story ideas, I decided
to add my 2 cents.

Like many people have said, TownTalk is a public forum and completely
searchable via quick Internet search. Check out your former posts, by month,
going back to August 2005 here:
http://riverdale-park.org/pipermail/towntalk/. Anything that is written on
here completely public. If you don't like the idea of anyone with an
Internet connection being able to know your thoughts on any given topic,
don't post it on the Internet. It's that simple.

I can say I haven't read the rooster article, but I do know how many
articles I've written after getting the idea from the list serve - articles
that many of you TownTalkers raved about and linked to on this list serve.
How else do you think we would know about open houses, international nights,
mosaic murals at Riverdale Elementary school, or different events at the
Farmers Market or Riversdale, or the Riverdale Railfans? It's rare that we
get an e-mail directly asking us to cover something, yet these are all
things that I was personally thanked for writing - things I learned of on
TownTalk

While I understand some of you might be upset about the one rooster article,
think about the numerous articles the Gazette has written over the years to
highlight the exciting things that happen in your town before you call for a
boycott of a paper whose entire purpose is to feature the things that happen
in your community. Think about what you can read in the Gazette about
Riverdale Park as opposed to the extremely negative stories that are usually
the only ones to get picked up by the bigger papers - such as those two
incidents in the department of public works that happened over the past few
years that I know we'd all like to forget
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/16/AR200707160
1652_pf.html and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301
540_pf.html).

Just my 2 cents, written from the perspective of someone who thoroughly
enjoyed covering your town and is saddened by the response I've seen over
the past week.

--
Maya T. Prabhu
Quintana St., Riverdale Heights

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