Comments on: I’m A Jerk And I Steal From Others – I Don’t Think So!

By: Gary Bing

Gary Bing — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:24:56 +0000

MHZ has got it and others better as well. I don’t like the way this is going. The only free news will be propaganda and advertisers. How will we know about corruption local and otherwise? We will just look to our “free” news sources. This is old news It’s been done before.I need not remind you of where and when. You are not going to be told the who, the why and the how. Do you want the FOX to guard the hen house? I think not . Not on my watch. Free news is something we can’t afford. Somebody is going to have to replace those out of work reporters. Would that be bloggers? Some may even be paid more than reporters. I’m doing this for free, along with a plethora of many other things on the subject of misinformation, scams and corruption. I don’t ask to be paid but you may have got your “moneys worth”, reading myself.

By: mhz

mhz — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:35:27 +0000

>>>>Who owns this ‘news’?
>>>>The journalist who writes about it?
>>>>The news agency that reports it?

You’re making a rhetorical argument here, which sounds dramatic, but doesn’t make any sense.

The question is not “who owns the news”, but whether the people doing the work of reporting, and the companies that directly fund and provide for that service should get paid for it.

If Google wants it for free, and end users want it for free, who will pay for the reporting to get done? Who should get the phone call from a reporter in Africa when the guerrilla fighting is closing in on his position and he needs to quickly relocate to a hotel in another town or else get killed in the crossfire?

Who will call and set up a place for him to go, and wire the money, so that he has a place to escape to?

Should he just try his best to find an internet cafe and post a plea for Paypal donations for a hotel room in Africa? There is time, money, blood, sweat and tears going into gathering news. And if you refuse to pay for it, it will cease to exist.

Its just like any other business, EXCEPT for the web advertising business. The fact that Google has such an easy business model (“if you want to be seen on the internet, call us…”) that they don’t respect anyone else’s is ridiculous.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:35:01 +0000

Buffet – It is I that thanks you. Without people such as yourself, Lockergnome would not exist.

By: Buffet

Buffet — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:43:35 +0000

Jerk? HARDLY! The amount of useful, relevant 411 I garner from you, and your cohorts, is worth it’s weight in gold! To top it off – it’s f@#*kin’ FREE. How cool is that. Just keep doin’ what you’re doin’. It IS appreciated. Believe it or, I’ve even been called a jerk before? Hard to imagine, I know. Ya just gotta dismiss the rantings of a few lunatics. Thanks again.