It seems like a million years ago…that we first started putting out “the word from the bird” about Orange County politics. Contention was all over the place and great guys like Claudio and Sean Mill sprinkled their wisdom here and there. We had a great guy called Ryan Trabuco…..we had Tom Gordon -we had Larry Gilbert and we had the proverbial “Winships”. Every one had their roll. Every one was willing to let all the stops out….and speak from their gut and hearts. Did we forget to mention the great Art Pedroza…who has the broadest shoulders in blogging history? He has taken more flack than a B-17 over Berlin in 1945!
So, what is our point? Well, it goes something like this…..anyone can be replaced in the publishing business. No one is above the law….of the jungle and no one can take the law into their own hands! You see, it is called: “Responding to the needs of the public!” Some editors feel compelled to take the law into their own hands. When this happens…the integrity of the publication is put at risk.
A warning?……”Yes, a warning!” Changing the format of the Orange Juice Blog is no big deal. Editiing its writers without notice is called “Tyranny!”
Ron and Anna,
I’m sorry. I have no idea what you are talking about. I have been working all day teaching a ten hour OSHA safety class.
If anyone edited you without permission, please email me in the future or call me so we can discuss. I sometimes fix errors or design flaws when I find them in other posts. For example, you posted this post entirely in bold face. So I fixed that.
At any rate, we now have a new blog and I do hope that in time you will start posting about politics in your city, and issues of the day, as opposed to these mysterious rants about our new format or alleged editing fubars.
Thanks by the way for the kind words! It is always nice to be appreciated.
I think it was yesterday or the day before, the Winships (who sound hopping mad!) wrote something called “We will not be posting on the new blog” and it got mysteriously renamed “We will not be … buying this bull!”
Maybe that post should be given its original title, even though, ironically… they ARE now posting on the new blog!
Vern,
Is the empty Orange wide bar on the left…your
idea? What a concept!
Don’t ask for feedback..you might get some! What
happened with Larry’s story on Prop. 98? Why was it not posted?
*The Donkey is a nice touch…..why don’t we just
call this blog “Big Blue County”? Where is Matt Cunningham now that we need him?
R&A: I dare call it treason, and the title implies that you might too since nobody would fault you for leaving if that’s what you chose, unless of course you made some baseless accusations before you left. Oh right, too late.
Nobody edited your articles. In fact, yours are the only available at the OJ at this point in time.
And what’s this about a blank left toolbar? The only platform I haven’t tested the new site on is Macintosh. You don’t have a Mac, do you?
If I didn’t know better I’d think you had this planned out all along. But then, I suppose I don’t know better, so did you?
SMS
PS: I’ve already made it clear that any missing stories should be available after the database maintenance, so please just relax. Nobody deleted Larry’s Prop 98 story. It’s in a backup database.
Sarah, as a Macintosh user I can report that the blog looks OK. I find no “blank left toolbar” on the page. Perhaps the Winships are referring to something only “blessed” contributors can access. As a lowly reader, it looks OK from here.
To both you and Art – the infighting among your contributors is, at best, a distraction from the views presented. Divergent viewpoints are one thing, but the spitting back and forth makes it much less comfortable while visiting the site.
Who knows, maybe it’s just the heat!
I agree Pot Stirrer. I’m not entirely sure what this is all about. Honestly, I think it’s just a miscommunication, but we’ll see.
SMS
Winships, I didn’t have anything to do with the redesign OR changing your title.
Who changed their title?
It wasn’t me. In fact, I hated the new title because of all those periods. <-Click And this story is also in all bold and has an extra byline because the Winships swore up and down that their bylines were missing. Umm... not quite. SMS
As just a reader I have no clue what the rant is about. The mention of the donkey? There is an elephant on the right side. The elephant is ok but the donkey isn’t?
What empty orange wide bar?