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Is the truth too much?
A battle is waging between village governments and local bloggers in Alex Bay.
According to the Watertown Daily Times, the village board has recently criticized "local blogs" for creating unnecessary controversy, resulting in the departure of many potential candidates for police chief.
Bloggers fire back and say that the board is simply trying to pin all the villages' problems on the public forums on sites like Abay.com. "The board is trying to redirect the public's attention from themselves to the blogs," says James Cummings, author of Abay Circus, a local blog. Despite all the controversy, bloggers are not backing down.
At a meeting Monday that saw a new police chief appointed, Trustee Steven E. Jarvis stated, "It's pretty sad that personal blogs can interferer so much wit local government. We have a very loud minority."
But Cummings disagrees. "They refer to us as the loud minority, but I think we represent the silent majority." Cummings continues by saying the open forums are a place to "exchange ideas," and freedom of speech in these forums must not be impeded.
And this is were I begin to agree with Mr. Cummings. Many people blog, sure, but that is often times the only time voices of public citizens can be heard and listened to. The village government in Alex Bay should not be putting all of their focus into these blogs that may be doing nothing but exposing truth. They need to fix what ever problems exist.
So I ask you, where do we draw the line on "freedom of speech"? Should open forums on the Internet be scrutinized, or do we have the right to voice the wrongs in our respective societies?
To view the original article, visit http://watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090810/NEWS03/308109985
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