My point...
The patterns are indeed very clear and convincing. This thread is VERY telling. FR has become nothing but a scotched earth community of malcontents.
They don’t even care that their daily diet of information is being spoon fed to them by folks who think news only comes from the MSM...
Look, I’ve been on your threads. Some good discussion too. Many of the posters myself including are just kidding you a bit...I know there is sense of humor buried in their somewhere.
..and you wonder why people are reacting to you the way they are. Many of us have been nice and tried to explain to you the best we saw it, a different perspective, even citing evidence as I have that posts do drop off, even in breaking news, and that news and bloggers are both a mix of sources from MSM and alternative media, not just relegating alternative media to bloggers and liberal media to news, but instead, you continue to insult the FReeper community and the people who work for the site. I recommend you have a drink, sleep on it, and come back to this thread and read it as though you didn't post it... look at it from the perspective of those who responded to you. Comparing FR to DU, insulting FReepers, calling to 'dump' the site, the response people give you is expected.
I work with a lot of Web 2.0 and 3.0 education sites and I can tell you, how these sites work largely depend on the community demand. Based on the fact that 99% of the responses here are disagreeing with you and all agree that these editorials you used as an example are not news, you may be better to (as another poster put it) sell the author as an authority that people respect and want to see as news instead of griping that no one sees it your way.
There is an old adage in writing, if your point doesn't come across the way you wanted it, don't blame the reader, look to yourself.
I don't know of a single freeper who would commit alcohol abuse and an enviromental crime by scotching the earth. Why waste good Scotch?
Another addition to the accidental lexicon of FR - could end up right along stuned beeber. Don't take that the wrong way - some of the funniest stuff on FR is accidental, and it's best when the creator can laugh at himself for doing it and take the ribbing. Lord knows I've done a few of those in my ten years here.