I don't totally disagree with this editorial..but the Times Newsweekly may not be the best one's to talk about using letters to the editor as a way to speak out - since they almost never print any letters sent to them by readers. I read their newspaper weekly... so I know this is how they discourage their readers from using their voices... unlike blogs which allow everyone to comment (sometimes you get an ass or two)... I think the open forum of communication used by most blogs should be acceptable to adults (you take the comments from where they come and make your own decisions)...but you'll note my name is on this blog...
Back in the days before computers—those dark ages without the Internet—there was the “knock book.”
For those too young to remember, it was your typical school composition book, the one with the marble cover, and it contained the name of every student in the class on a separate page.
This was always done anonymously, so the recipient of the jabs never really knew who was responsible for writing terrible things about them in the book. It was a cowardly act by angry or jealous people who lacked the courage to say things straight to their classmate’s face.
Today, the same sort of hurtful, spineless acts are still being perpetrated and while the tools of communications may be grander, the ones using them are no better than the weasels who scribbled long ago.
The big difference is that instead of taking a pen or pencil in hand to defame somebody in a notebook, they sit down at a computer and bang out a “blog.”
