Comments on: Rockland sheriff piles up more endorsements

By: Brian Goehring

Brian Goehring — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:03:32 +0000

Mr Lieberman,

I now see that someone else, “Andrew”, commented on your work as well. He seemed to have the same feel from your writing that I had. I don’t think either of us received a fair response from you. What is it we are “wrong” about? Please elaborate your position and specifically mention what exactly it is we are so “wrong” in interpreting from your blog entries and from your brief responses – which, by the way, read as being dismissive and rude as opposed to being even somewhat genuine. Basically, your lack of explanation or engagement in discussion seems to validate what I (and “Andrew”) have speculated.

By: Steve Lieberman

Steve Lieberman — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:08:03 +0000

You are wrong, too. And I apologize if politely saying you are wrong upsets you.
Thanks for reading. I sent an e-mail to your address but it came back as undeliverable.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:27:32 +0000

Following up on my friendly post regarding campaign coverage, I must say that your response to Mr. Goehring not only reflects poorly on your character, but illustrates your poor understanding of journalism. Journalism can either do one of two things. Either, it remains unbaised and tries to judge stories objectively. Objectivism is usually an ideal, and unrealistic concept, but one should not pretend to be objective when one clearly has a side or motive. The second option is to flat out endorse candidates, so your readers at least know which side your on, and can choose to read your articles and accept your opinions or not. Masquerading as an objective journalist when one clearly favors a side leads to the worst kind of journalism – misleading. Please be friendlier to your bloggers, and show all the cards your holding in your deck if you’re going to be a journalist.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 03:17:40 +0000

You are wrong. Thank you for reading.

By: Brian Goehring

Brian Goehring — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:28:19 +0000

In reading your political blogs it appears to me that you strongly favor Kralik and Bongiorno. In fact, some of your entries seem to be advertisements for them. I don’t recall the Journal News listing endorsements before. On top of that, you seem dismissive of the local police union(s) and you insinuate that O’Neill received his endorsement by the Rockland County PBA due to him being a Clarkstown police officer and that union being “dominated” by Clarkstown officers.You failed (no doubt intentionally) to mention that the Sheriff’s Deputies are also in that union (I checked). You poke fun at Zugibe’s comments about receiving the Rockland PBA endorsement. I thought journalism was supposed to represent an unbiased point of view, especially in the political forum. Am I wrong? Something is not right here.