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January 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM #329164January 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM #328651Trojan4LifeParticipant
Ah, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)January 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM #328991Trojan4LifeParticipantAh, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)January 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM #329060Trojan4LifeParticipantAh, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)January 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM #329086Trojan4LifeParticipantAh, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)January 14, 2009 at 1:49 PM #329169Trojan4LifeParticipantAh, I see you chose to only print part of the posting I submitted, OCR. Perhaps that should tell the kind readers of Piggington a little more about your character. In the first paragraph, I stated that perhaps OCR had found the home that made he and his family happy and were comfortable buying, and then I congratulated him if that were the fact.
But I will not back away from the fact that OCR feels he/she (who really knows) can hold “knife catchers” to public ridicule by divulging details of their purchase. While I understand these details are in the public record, it was his “guilty before being proven innocent” point of view that made his blog both controversial and readable.
But those who live by the sword also die by the sword, and ultimately OCR felt that they should hide for cover using the “safety of my family” excuse to absolve themselves from responsibility for their actions.
I have been a long time reader of many real estate blogs, and conducted graduate research into the ability of blogs to compete with mainstream media. Ultimately the question of journalistic ethics was found to be the most critical downfall of the blogger.
The good RE blogs like Piggington do little to hurt people emotionally, that’s not their purpose. It’s to analyze data, trends and to provide a forum for discussion. That is the tragedy of BMIT, it evolved into a bash-a-thon, perhaps to sooth someone’s anger, I’m not sure. But I won’t miss the BMIT blog, because it had become nothing more than a tabloid.
Rich, I’m sorry to use this forum to defend my comments, and if you would like I won’t post here again, I respect you enough to abide by any decision you make.
Trojan4life
(oh, and OCR…all the haters use the condom joke…so get a life)January 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM #328671waiting hawkParticipantDont read the blog then u crybaby and make your own that is up to your standards.
January 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM #329010waiting hawkParticipantDont read the blog then u crybaby and make your own that is up to your standards.
January 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM #329080waiting hawkParticipantDont read the blog then u crybaby and make your own that is up to your standards.
January 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM #329106waiting hawkParticipantDont read the blog then u crybaby and make your own that is up to your standards.
January 14, 2009 at 2:14 PM #329189waiting hawkParticipantDont read the blog then u crybaby and make your own that is up to your standards.
January 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM #328711patientlywaitingParticipantI will miss the blog.
It’s one thing to talk in abstract terms. BMIT showed us examples of the fraud and the craziness.
Yes, it’s a tabloid, but what’s wrong with a tabloid. There’s a place for all types of reporting and speech.
January 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM #329047patientlywaitingParticipantI will miss the blog.
It’s one thing to talk in abstract terms. BMIT showed us examples of the fraud and the craziness.
Yes, it’s a tabloid, but what’s wrong with a tabloid. There’s a place for all types of reporting and speech.
January 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM #329119patientlywaitingParticipantI will miss the blog.
It’s one thing to talk in abstract terms. BMIT showed us examples of the fraud and the craziness.
Yes, it’s a tabloid, but what’s wrong with a tabloid. There’s a place for all types of reporting and speech.
January 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM #329146patientlywaitingParticipantI will miss the blog.
It’s one thing to talk in abstract terms. BMIT showed us examples of the fraud and the craziness.
Yes, it’s a tabloid, but what’s wrong with a tabloid. There’s a place for all types of reporting and speech.
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