Kurt, what is the obsession the PD has of making this the most user unfrindly blog site of ANY blog site that I have seen on the internet?

You have a topic on bees. I answered it. Unfortunately, I mistyped a couple of words. and have no way of correcting the spelling. Some academians think that spelling is more important than the information provided in a post.

For Math God’s sake I could not even go back, make a spelling correction, and discuss a tangental issue that was more important than than the question you asked.

What does the PD find objectionable about allowing the poster to make corrections to a post they have made? Do you disallow your reporters from making corrections?

I don’t want to make you angry, but there is UNQUESTIONABLY more knowlege held by your readership than there ever will be in all the offices in the PD.

You are in the enviable position of exploiting that fact. Conversion of information to profits is not all bad. That is what your advertisers pay you to do.

Why would any newspaper care whether the information came from a contributor on a blog forum, or from some reporter that doesn’t know the difference between a humvee and a honeybee?

Yeah, Kurt, I know your company made a 17 percent profit last year. I congratulated you for that. Was that the best you could do?

Kurt, I am one of the regular bloggers. What really bothers me is when there is a topic I want to discuss, but it doesn’t appear anywhere on the blog. There is no place for people to introduce a topic. Please don’t direct me to the chat - I don’t get that whole thing.

Dear Editor: Why does your newspaper — in particular, reporter Robert Patrick — appear so reluctant to publish any mention of possibile involvement with terrorism in the case of 15 individuals indicted this week for alleged involvement in weapons buying and selling? Posts on the topic at my blog, Bob McCarty Writes™ (www.bobmccarty.com), have drawn quite a bit of attention and caused my readers to express puzzlement over your newspaper’s stance. Please explain. Thanks in advance.

Bob - good luck getting a reponse from the PD on this type of question.
I have a running list of stories they refuse to print. It is a very sad thing when the media “decides” what the public should know and the PD is perhaps the worst offender of this.