Chron "blogger" comes unhinged, imagines death wishes
Our little blog seems to have brought out the worst in the Chronicle's designated "blogger," Kyrie "MeMo" O'Connor today:
My don Dwight reports to me that people want me dead. Well, that's a bit of an exaggeration. A couple of people on some dopey Web site (and no, I'm not giving them more traffic) have left postings saying that I should hang or, in one case, hang and "cook." Now all that sounds a little scary-Iraqi to me, but hey. I think it's weird to want someone to die merely because you hate her blog. Not like, oh, being an ex-roommate stuck with the phone bill. Hey, it's a blog. Don't read it if it makes you want me to die, OK? It's not good for you or your karma. Go back to faking the charitable donations on your income tax or cat-hoarding or corresponding with hot teenage Russian girls on the Internet or picking at that pesky boil or whatever else you do with your spare time. We clear on that? Good.
Wait, let me correct myself (try it sometime, Chronicle editors!) -- our little blog hasn't brought out the worst in MeMo, but rather some of our blog commenters in this thread seem to have enraged her.
Now, one would expect a bigshot "blogger" for a major media outlet to know the difference between blog posts, and comments left in response to said blog posts, but since MeMo's little column that masquerades as a blog doesn't allow comments or trackback, perhaps she doesn't. For that matter, one would expect a bigshot "blogger" and Wesleyan alum (as she reminds us again today, for no apparent reason) to know the difference between death threats and a little blog commentary hyperbole. We're all about free speech here at blogHOUSTON and about engaging our readers in a hyperlocal conversation, but we don't provide a forum for hate speech, and an actual death threat would not fall within our posted terms of use.
So, let's be clear that no blogger on this "dopey website" made any death threats against Kyrie "MeMo" O'Connor, and it's beyond "a bit of an exaggeration" to suggest that any commenter has done so. Indeed, dismissing her newspaper's critics as purveyors of hate speech seems more like a deliberate smear. Maybe she learned that trick from Rick Casey?
As for picking at "that pesky boil" -- you can bet we're gonna keep picking at the Chronicle! Ignore us or smear us as you will, but we're not going away.
We clear on that, MeMo? Good.
However, I would like to welcome our visitors who regularly drop in from Chron.com IP addresses and are referred by internal Chron email addresses. I realize that certain coworkers probably don't want you to be part of our hyperlocal conversation, but you must not be totally buying it since you keep visiting. We surely don't wish any of you to die, and you shouldn't believe any raging features page editors who shriek otherwise.
RELATED: Frequent blogHOUSTON commenter and nationally recognized cat blogger Laurence Simon comments.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 01/17/05 08:45 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (37)
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