THE IRVINGS WILL ALLOW BRENT TAYLOR TO CONDEMN ANY CITIZENS BUT THE INDIVIDUAL ARE NOT ALLOWED TO FIGHT BACK!!!!

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I got a itty bitty problem with the Irving paper.




The Daily Gleaner will not printed my letter of reprisal against Brent Taylor.



This is very scary stuff! This means that Bigot Brent Taylor is allowed to give his opinion on any individual around this Province but that person is not allow to fight back!




I chatted with the Editor of the letters to the editor Friday afternoon. < She’s a sweetheart > I don’t blame her.





There’s someone who is more powerful than her in here.





The Irvings cannot get away with this one.











I was told that they will print my letter if I could write it in a more gentle way. Can someone help me out there? Can someone edit. my letter but my concerns stay the same.





Brent Taylor called me a Kook and I called him a bigot.





The Irvings are saying that he never mentioned my name. My answer- How many bloggers are banned for life from the New Brunswick Legislature?





So, lets see what’s going to happen here. This is not done yet.





If the Irvings will allow a bigot loyal soldier columnist to condemn New Brunswickers and the citizen in question is not allowed to fight back. Well this is old Germany all over again!











Freedom of speech must remain alive.




I will make a complaint to the Atlantic Press Council and the Senate and I will blog this issue till the end of time.





Brent Taylor should be force to resign and I believe that he should be let go from the CBC political panel.



He emailed someone telling them not to print my letter therefore he’s against freedom of speech.





I heard that Brent Taylor wishes to run for political office again under the Bernard lord Team? Can you imagine that one?





Here’s my letter and if you can fix it? Send me an email at oldmaison@yahoo.com.




I added Brent’s column also......




I feel that I have no other choice but to reply to Brent’s Taylor views , June 29, 2006 - Bloggers can take their messages too far

I must admit that I never read brent’s column. I am not interested in his views especially being a former member of the C.O.R. Party. His column was bought to my attention by a reader of my blog.

I am very glad Mr.Taylor shared his views on my situation because he sure knows something that I don’t.

He wrote - Legitimate bloggers are fighting, and winning battles over their accreditation as true journalists.

I do call myself a legitimate blogger because I’m the man on the streets talking to poor people and I did bring a lot of issues to all MLA’s such as roomers Boarding rights.

He claims that I was harassing employees at their workplace.

I also learned that many unionized employees went on stress leave for the summer months because of my attitude? Absolutely not once have I have been approached by the staff to stop harassing people.

He wrote - There is no point in any of them suing this blogger,

I got a question for Mr.Taylor? How can a person be sued for speaking the truth? My blogs are always written with a true message..

Despite the kooks, blogging has become increasingly mainstream.

I take exception to be call - A Kook. I would rather be called a Kook than being a Bigot from the C.O.R. Party any day.

As an Acadian, I remember Brent’s very anti-French speech while running for the leadership in 1992. This is one reason that I don’t read his column.

I might add that Brent is no legitimate Blogger. I just check Brent’s blog. His last update was in February. He sure isn’t a blogger.

The Fredericton blogger banned from the legislature would not even come close to meeting the standards set forth by the MBA.

What standards would be acceptable to Mr.Taylor? Attend a journalist course at Saint Thomas where the Irvings gave one million dollars to train their future employees?

A blogger is the columnist, the editor and the owner. A blogger reports the news but with an opinion.

Down the States, bloggers are treated with great respect.

Mind you, is you get a blogger upset?

Look out!!!!

Because their views goes on the information highway in minutes. I had over 100,000 visitors to my site so therefore I can’t be truly a kook.

Brent wrote The application was not approved, and rightly so.

Maybe Brent believes that since the Irvings owns all the major newspapers in New brunswick. Only Irving employees can apply as Bloggers?

Former C.O.R. MLA’S had a bad habit of speaking out before thinking and true was the case with this one - For instance, union representative Tom Mann wrote this newspaper last week defending the blogger's banishment, and was promptly termed a "bigot."

Now? If I wasn’t a legitimate Blogger? Why would Brent visit my blog? Very good question indeed?

One thing is certain. I might be banned for life from the Legislature but I will continue to blog away my views on political issues.

I may not be there to asked MLA'S questions on the issues of day so therefore I will asks them in my blog.

Bloggling is the journalist way of the future. Weather you like it or not! Bloggers will be around till the end of time.

Charles LeBlanc
Fredericton





Bloggers can take their messages too far

Brent Taylor
REALITY CHECK

When they were popularized over a decade ago, Internet Web pages usually consisted of static, rather boring, billboards of information put up by companies, governments or other organizations. They acted like road signs or business cards - just sitting there.

Now, though, the World Wide Web has become much more dynamic. Web content can be updated instantly, by users who are sometimes on the move using wireless access.

No longer just the realm of big business and government, the Internet has become a popular vehicle for individuals, some of whom have now taken to creating online diaries, or Web logs, of their daily lives and observations.

These Web logs, or "blogs" for short, have been used by everyone from ordinary citizens to prominent public figures like politicians and entertainers. Local MP Andy Scott has a blog, although it has not been updated in almost a month. News reporters covering the 2006 federal election "blogged" while on the campaign trail. (Yes, blog has become a verb.)

In the United States, bloggers have played an increasingly important role in politics. Dan Rather's fall from grace at CBS, starting in 2004, was precipitated and maintained by bloggers, who tenaciously pursued the story of Rather's use of forged military records in attacking George W. Bush while the "legitimate" media ignored the story.

In Maine, earlier this year, blogger Lance Dutson was sued for defamation by the New York ad agency that holds the contract for the state's tourism campaign.

Dutson had exposed irregularities and shed light on some controversial subjects involving the ad agency and its relationship with the Maine Office of Tourism.

In May, after public pressure was brought to bear on the state government and the ad agency itself, the suit against Dutson was dropped.

Legitimate bloggers are fighting, and winning battles over their accreditation as true journalists.

Recently in California two bloggers won a court ruling confirming that they had as much right, under the First Amendment, to protect their confidential sources as did the print and broadcast media.

While some blogs are adding greatly to public discourse and forcing the mainstream media to keep up, the kook factor continues to rear its ugly head.

While serious bloggers go about their business with discipline and ethics, the kooks cast a pall over the whole medium.

Last week our legislature's administration committee had the unhappy task of banning a self-proclaimed blogger from the property of the assembly.

The directive from the sergeant-at-arms identified several grounds for the eviction, including the continued harassment of government employees at their workplace.

This "blogger" feels he has a right, as a journalist, to ply his craft - which apparently consists mostly of taking candid photos of politicians and private citizens and then posting them with accompanying commentary to his Web site - after some of the photos have been doctored and many of the articles laced with defamatory depictions and statements.

For instance, union representative Tom Mann wrote this newspaper last week defending the blogger's banishment, and was promptly termed a "bigot."

Similar libellous terms have been levelled against dozens of other New Brunswickers from all walks of life. There is no point in any of them suing this blogger, however, for he apparently has no assets and, therefore, nothing to lose.

Despite the kooks, blogging has become increasingly mainstream. In an effort to establish a set of principles to which legitimate bloggers would adhere, the Media Bloggers Association (MBA) was created to gather together those involved in the craft. The MBA adopted the following principles to be followed by its members: honesty, fairness, accuracy, transparency, accountability, trust, and, respect for the privacy of private citizens.

From a founding membership base of 22 blogs, the MBA has grown exponentially to now include 295 blogs, with new applications being received steadily.

To become a member of the MBA a blogger must, among other things, "have a demonstrated history of a serious commitment to blogging evidenced by blogging for more than several months, posting regularly and frequently, and writing posts of some reasonable level of quality."

The Fredericton blogger banned from the legislature would not even come close to meeting the standards set forth by the MBA.

He had previously applied for membership in the legislature's press gallery as a reporter.

The application was not approved, and rightly so.

As the phenomenon evolves the press gallery will, at some point, be presented with an application from a blogger that will be worthy of acceptance.

The MBA guidelines are a good start on what test ought to be applied to a blogger seeking to chronicle the political life of New Brunswick as a full member of the gallery.

Until then, both the legislature and its press gallery need not apologize for evicting harassers and disturbers. The MLAs, the public, and the employees themselves must have a safe and secure environment in which to come together to advance their legitimate causes and do the people's business.

Brent Taylor is a former C.O.R. MLA. He writes each Tuesday from Doaktown.