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<DIV>Bingo, let's hear it for the First Amendment! Maya hits the nail on the
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<DIV>Here's the down and dirty message: Don't leave your house without your
clothes on if you don't want your neighbors to see you naked. Pretty simple.
It's all in your control. </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/26/2009 4:22:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
thebee32@aol.com writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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<BR><BR>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. </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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/AR2007071601652_pf.html
and
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301540_pf.html).<BR><BR>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.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV id=sig7046 style="CLEAR: both"><FONT size=+0><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">--<BR></FONT>Maya<FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> T. Prabhu<BR>Quintana St., Riverdale
Heights<BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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