The Tennessee Liberal

This exchange between a Knoxville Metro Pulse part-owner and South Knox Bubba is not a good thing. Now, I am most certainly a bit player in the larger world of Tennessee blogging, while I consider SKB one of the greats, and certainly my inspiration for a blog that covers the local, the state and the national in a healthy mix.

It strikes me that a newspaper, be it a daily or an alt-weekly should be able to handle criticism leveled by readers. I think both the TFP and the Pulse in Chattanooga both do this well. This part-owner of the Metro Pulse seems to have gone off on Bubba for merely hosting a site where someone ripped on one of the articles i his piece written by some cub reporters.

Part of the nature of the Internet is that it is democratic, in the purest sense of the word. Brian Conley needs to recognize that fact and let SKB run his site without threatening his anonymity. As an anonymous blogger myself, it's usually done with good reason. Atrios takes on this angle well, and shows why Conley is making quite a wanker of himself by having forced Bubba to reveal his identity.

Anyway, this is a bit of a ramble, but consider it a post of support for South Knox Bubba. He's one of the good guys.

Ok, then.