Comments on: Why Blogs Like GUARDIAN Needed https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/ A different slant on the news. Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Ryan McGill https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-78772 Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:02:33 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-78772 News and Follow-ups Ideas:

Huge new holes dug up for rocks along the flood plain west of Garden City (still part of Boise, I think—-east of the Water Shed) What might they do with acres of holes? Reclaim? Develop? Maybe the Snow Terrain Park Guy can build his wakeboard park.

Continued issues with Eagle Island State Park and the Mystery of the Gravel Mine. (Knipe?)

Follow up on the prohibition of alcohol on a navigable river. (really? claim the river as part of the city?) If they claim the whole river then shouldn’t the river comply with the Americans with Disability Act?

Excessive surveillance anywhere in Ada County.

More on BPD’s use of the MRAP.

Talk of bigger dams on the Boise to feed people’s yards….that live in a desert.

Boise River water quality from Barber Dam to the city of Eagle.

How are things going at Blacks Creek Reservoir? Is that Boise out there?

-Ryan McGill

]]> By: jj https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76746 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:36:33 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76746 other media takes the PR releases from team dave and publishes it as “news”

]]> By: jj https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76745 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 23:35:43 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76745 thanks for what you do, i get most of my local news of import from you as I feel the other media in town is just a PR machine for government, and not really the balance they are supposed to be.

]]> By: Grumpy ole guy https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76295 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 02:20:59 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76295 It is a very sad statement that in our corporate/consumer driven world our so-called news reports do absolutely NO news investigations of their own, because there appears to be no actual news staff, only the talking heads on camera. Maybe the “no news is good news”, slogan has been been adopted as their philosophy and mantra? Or, 1984 has been fully implemented? Or, we now get what we deserve.
If we do not stand up and demand real news we are at fault.

]]> By: Rick https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76293 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 01:16:46 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76293 It seems that most “stories” that generate discussion get cut off fairly quickly….case in point chief updates copper capers…..only lasted 3 days and 19 comments….

]]> By: Cynic https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76268 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:48:53 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76268 Surprised that you can’t find several things a day to comment on! Politicians and government agencies provide lots of opportunities!

]]> By: boisecynic https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76265 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:29:44 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76265 Where did the story originate? Obviously this isn’t a coincidence. They’re just rehashing some GMA or Today Show story. This is done all the time. A good chunk of local news is AP, UPI and Reuters stories.

If they went after hard local news all the time, they would quickly be out of business because it would only take a year or two to p*ss off every last person in town. And reporters would lose their access to big scoops like BSU games and coaches and whatnot.

]]> By: Flyhead https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76263 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:24:10 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76263 I have a friend who calls it the NO NEWS-NEWS and has pretty much tuned out all the mind clutter offered. I used to think a top 40 DJ was one of the worst jobs, now it has to be news casters and anchors on TV. Newspapers offer little in the way of news. At least the Obituary page lets us keep up with people we may know who have come to the end of their lives.

]]> By: Robert https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76250 Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:45:39 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76250 The news media has become so intelligent!

]]> By: Nan e mouse https://boiseguardian.com/2013/12/29/why-blogs-like-guardian-needed/#comment-76208 Sun, 29 Dec 2013 21:47:05 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=10712#comment-76208 And that’s why I don’t watch local news, but why I do read the guardian!

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