Georgia State Patrol continues to investigate a wreck involving an overturned late model Chevy 4-door Blazer.
According to Captain Todd Pippin of Lamar Co. Sheriff's Office, officer Brandon Goins and his partner attempted to pull the vehicle over on I-75 for improper lane change and for having no license plate on either the front or rear of the vehicle. When sirens and lights were employed the driver fled.
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Tipper Gore jumped on this bandwagon in the 80’s and unknowingly did the best thing for the music industry since Elvis wiggled his hips on live television. She and her supporters tried to censor language that artists used on record albums. The outcome was the familiar “Warning Explicit Lyrics” decals pasted to every album, cassette and eventually CD that contained a certain few predetermined words. What happened was album sales soared for the material that displayed this message. Many artists began to add just enough “explicit” material to get the label. I wish I could find an estimate of how much money and profit was created by Tipper and her crew for the music industry. I’m sure its astronomical. You can see these decals today on music from rock to hip hop. Will we be seeing warnings on this site when we log on in the future?
That sounds a bit different than freedom of speech to me.
The most honest and informed opinions from people come in first responses at a time when those people don't take the time to sugar coat everything in the interest of bleeding heart whiners.
I’ll take the offensive honesty over the individualized moderated progressive freedom cover-up any day of the week.
I would like to have actually learned something from this blog rather than log off with a feeling of abhorrence.
As I attempt my retort, the sour taste of any possible censoring of HG readership lingers.
If your statement reveals you will moderate inappropriate statements while monitoring readers' posts, that is very acceptable.
Any newspaper soliciting commentaries from the public in regards to any article, should not be overly concerned with "too much freedom of speech". In this great society of Americans, free speech dictates and is the engine that turns the wheels of a free press.
I am not proposing the HG allow their bloggers to run amok on the Internet wielding their keyboards as weapons. To settle personal vendettas, threaten or falsely accuse, make vicious overt racial statements or homophobic accusations, use profanity, etc..etc., via reader's comments is wrong.
"Equal opportunity racists" from every color and creed should be allowed to post "THEIR" opinions in a reasonable and polite manner while staying within the parameters of libel.
Negative remarks are companions to positive remarks and each view is unique to a subject. There should NEVER be full agreement on ANY HG article. Perception skews to the individual.
The moderator should be vigilant using journalistic experience in order to protect the corporate entity while allowing freedom of expression sans censorship.
Being a long time retired Seasoned Senior Citizen allows me the luxury to peruse in excess of twenty online publications each day.
I rank The Herald Gazette near the top of all the newspapers. The HG news reporting and accompanying readers' comments homogenize to create a Southern newspaper unlike any I have read. Don't choose one faction over another!
Toss the bone and "Let the Dawgs out".
Call N. Alcars 10-9
What we (and more specifically, I) am intending to do is cut back on the racial epithets, racially motivated comments, accusatory and flamboyant statements often made by the infamous 'anonymous.'
I am not going to start deciding what is a valid comment and what is not.
1) User leaves comment
2) Comment is held in queue for approval
3) I get email saying there is a comment in queue
4) I go to admin section of site and approve comment
5) Comment posts with timestamp of approval
The delays are because of two reasons: Mondays we go to press for the print edition so there is little time to continue visiting email every five minutes and the other being I am 'on scene' and do not have access to a computer.
While living in B'ville, I was shocked to discover just how many folks still harbored such deep-rooted feelings of racism, social intolerance, etc..
Now, when I log on to Barnesville(dot)com, I am able to keep up with the happenings of the community, check the arrest column to see of any of my wife's former students have been incarcerated, or learning of the rise in the crime rate in our former "hometown".
We moved away in 2001 to a tiny hamlet nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tn. Moving here was, quite literally, like taking a large step back in time. We reside in an area where you would be hard pressed to find any other race than caucasian. (We do have the occasional Mexican come through trying to find work.) I've learned that, in spite of the progress made within the past 40-45 years, there are still folks, even some of the nice folk up here, who harbor such staunch feelings/opposition to someone based solely upon the color of their skin.
I'm also a very avid "news junkie". I'm constantly reading news from nearly every source possible. The one thing that I am proud about our country is the fact that we can still read a newspaper without all of the foul language that some of you are so fond of saying, nor do I have to read anything to do with racial epithets.
When I come to this website, I come to read the news. Walter G. and his staff have done an absolutely wonderful job of keeping everyone abreast of what's going on in their corner of the world. It would be really nice if the comments section of each news story could mirror the story in the sense that you can get a point across without the name calling or swearing.
I'm all for "Freedom of Speech", but I do believe that there's a limit to that freedom. With freedom comes responsibility. If you claim to have "freedom of speech", then act responsibly so that you can truly enjoy that freedom.
Here's an experiment for those who're whining about "censorship". Go down to the local court house, police/sheriff's department, church/place of worship or any other public place that you so choose and begin shouting profanities at the top of your lungs. When someone kindly approaches you to calm down and go easy on the language, then accuse them of blatant racism, even if they are of the same ethnic heritage as you, and start slinging racial epithets in their direction. See how far your "freedom of speech" will get you in this scenario. I'd bet my last dollar that you'd be spending more than one night at Waller's Hilton.
Odom, Geiger, and the rest of the HG staff aren't asking you to surrender your freedom of speech, nor are they trying to take it away from you. They (along with others, like myself, who come here to read the news, and then read some good clean, sometimes comical, comments left by others) merely want you to act responsibly, exercise some self-control, and make this forum, and all other forums, a place where families can come together, read the news, and share a good laugh at some of the comments made by some pretty comical folks.
Thanks for allowing my unsolicited $0.02 worth.
What I don't understand is I don't cuss in my post or lie, so I don't understand why it would be removed.
Mr.Odom, did you remove my comment about the Sheriff living close to all the major crimes we make the TV news for. If you check into it nothing I said was false or misleading. It anything it was accurate and true!
I call it Karma! That's God's way of saying you really messed up!
Oh! And I'm definitely not anonymous.
I mean to change the laws in the state so women and children will be protected.