Why this fascination with rehashing a story we all read the first time, when it was news? And news it was indeed, and the stories were prominent.

If you are now going to do massive compilations of links on certain subjects, how about focusing them on issues that affect most Missourians, not just the 10 percent of us that Kinsey estimated may be gay?

If you are uninterested in a Political Fix post, I would encourage you to move along to the next post without even clicking on the offending entry.

I found the posting in question informative and I appreciated it.

But I cannot believe the Post-Dispatch doesn’t want every click it can get on its blogs carrying paid advertising, such as the St. John’s Mercy banner ad I am looking at now.

The reporter’s curt reply to the poster, with whom I disagree about the merits of posting the compilation of links, was uncalled for. It might even be characterized as arrogant, or at least as snotty.

I try to click on everything posted here and I cannot imagine the newspaper does not want to encourage others to read the postings. Yet that is what has happened here.

I think it would be far more useful to do more round-up compilations to address the original person’s statement. There are many issues in the news and I do not have time to sort through Huffington Post or Drudge. I would prefer they appear on the Political Fix. I hate to think the Political Fix doesn’t want readers to bother.

Shelley has a point, the reporter should be more tolerant. I also appreciate the reporters effort, just not the tone of her response.

I take a back seat to no one here when it comes to criticizing the Post and it’s reporters. They do tend to be surly and don’t take well to actually hearing from readers… especially those from the right.

But allow me to suggest that perhaps we should give Ms. Roseann Moring just a bit of slack here…

Friday afternoon… and someone gives her the job of compiling all this and posting on the blog, something that you can be sure she rather not be doing… she spent 6 years in J-school and untold tens of thousands of dollars to spend her Fridays writing for the front page… some scathing expose’ destroying the career and life of some Conservative Christian Republican politician.

Instead… she’s stuck with us. And looking around the empty desks in the Post newsroom must also bring home the point that she is still there because she is an entry level (or close) reporter, making next to nothing, and the chances of her getting to a position of power and authority and thus making good money are slim to none.

Even that job at Starbucks doesn’t seem to be a real option right now, and the way Lee is cutting things… And let’s remember… she’s taking unpaid leave this month.

So come on folks cut Roseann a little slack.

tsquare’s satire - I think it was satire - was better reading than the orginal blog posting.

I agree that the reporter needs to be chill and a tad more tolerant. Welcome all visitors. Disinvite none. Help the Lee Enterprises bottom line by keeping your attitude in check.

Dear Ms. Moring, you wrote: “If you are uninterested in a Political Fix post, I would encourage you to move along to the next post without even clicking on the offending entry.” — Roseann Moring, 4:26 pm April 10th, 2009

I never said I was offended by your Political Fix item, so please do not jump to that conclusion. I also did not say I was not interested. I would just be more interested in seeing similar roundups on subjects of more general interest. There is no need for you to be so surly/defensive.

Now that I used the tags to check what this reporter previously did to compile headlines on a given subject, guess what the answer is - none. What is it about this subject that so fascinates the reporter?

Let me rephrase my comment:

I certainly would welcome your suggestions about other topics for a similar post (although I can’t guarantee I would do every suggestion, because sometimes I’m too busy to do things like this), and as it seems there is some interest, I will do my best to continue doing this. However, just because one person has read about a prominent story elsewhere doesn’t mean others have. And as this was big nationwide news that the Post hadn’t really covered in the paper or on the site, I disagree about the merits of the roundup.

The purpose of blogs is to cover items that are of less general interest or generally aren’t important enough to enough people to merit a story. So generally, not everyone is going to be interested in every single post. Even if just one person is interested in something, I think it’s worth a blog post, given I have the time to write it.

I certainly didn’t mean to imply that you shouldn’t check out any blog posts, but if you are 100 percent certain you aren’t going to be interested, you are under no obligation to read an item. And while I appreciate you clicking on a headline to generate advertising revenue, I would rather you spend your time looking at areas of the site that are going to be useful to you.

I didn’t intend to be curt before, but I was in the middle of writing a story and didn’t have all day to write a reply, as I do today.

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