What's that sound?
After the partisan screamfest of the last several months, it's oddly quiet around here. Virtually no e-mail is coming in to me, and just two days ago I had been getting about 10 politically motivated messages an hour. I checked with the editorial department, and as of noon they'd only received three e-mails, period. So far, I've gotten no phone calls complaining about bias or soliciting candidate coverage. Maybe everyone is still celebrating or mourning. Or still asleep.
Or, perhaps, everyone is just plain tired of it. I do like the idea of resting our voices and lowering the volume back down to a decibel level more befitting a discussion. Maybe we can even get it to last through the end of the day.
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Whats that sound? Could it be the soothing sound of the collective heart beat of democracy alive in America?
Posted on November 3, 2004 3:20 PM
Could be, but it didn't last long. Got a call in the afternoon from someone saying that we should have declared it for Bush in the morning paper and that we didn't because our "liberal bias couldn't stomach it."
Posted on November 3, 2004 5:24 PM
I was encouraged by how your paper was arriving over the weekend in a Richard Burr wrapper. At least that way there was nothing offensive about the N&R until you unwrapped it.
Posted on November 4, 2004 8:49 AM
The silence could probably be a direct result from people looking around for a credible news source. After all your main endorsements lost, people don't want to be associated with losers like you and your liberal paper. Please give my heartfelt get well wishes to Willie D Snyder, Rosemary Roberts, Ed Cone and to your editorial page staff for helping to get Republicans and decent Americans out to vote.
Posted on November 4, 2004 10:40 AM