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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
2:38 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Kay,
New people are not unwelcome and I'm sorry your first experience here has not been good. We try to monitor conversations as best as possible, and I hope you stick around. — Marge -
On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
2:27 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
ReplyFolks, I agree with many posters here ... a reader is entitled to his or her opinion, and those whose opinions differ should still respect the views of others and not argue. Say your piece without telling the other person they are wrong. Thanks! — Marge
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On the article Fire Breaks Out in Dundalk Home Under Construction
Marge Neal
5:29 am on Friday, May 17, 2013
Several comments have been removed because they violate Patch's terms of use agreement. Make your point or leave your opinion without name-calling and personal attacks. And name-calling includes playground bullying versions of other readers' names. — Marge
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On the article Expert: No Cicadas this Year in Howard County
Marge Neal
10:24 am on Monday, May 13, 2013
ReplyThere was a comment here earlier this morning mentioning the cicada news three weeks ago was very different from this, but it seems to be gone!
I tried to set the story straight more than a month ago with this tongue-in-cheek piece: http://dundalk.patch.com/articles/stop-the-cicada-madness-already
Brood II is not expected to make much of an appearance (if any) in the metropolitan Baltimore area; they will be predominately in southern Maryland. — Marge
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On the article Dundalk Art Show, Dunfest Set for Saturday
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On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
8:44 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyTim,
I am the editor of Dundalk Patch but we all have bosses. This article did get edited by an editor above me. We're just as human as anyone else; I don't know anyone who's perfect at their jobs, and I certainly don't claim to be. I'm not hiding behind anything. I claim my mistakes and fix them, and acknowledge them. It just amazes me what readers want to complain about. These comments rarely have anything to do with the content of articles, and rarely add anything but snippy and mean comments designed to aggravate. And I just find that's getting quite old. That's all. Not hiding behind anything; just trying to have a little respect for the topic, and that apparently isn't working, so I'm done here.
And in regard to spell check, if an incorrectly used word is spelled correctly, spell check won't catch it. Spell check should have caught the one typo, and I'm not sure why it didn't. -
On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
7:44 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
ReplyBecause of the sensitivity of the issue of suicide, we don't normally report on them unless the person involved is a public figure, or unless the suicide took place in a very public manner, which was the case here.
From this point on, from a journalistic point of view, this is now a private matter for this man's family to deal with. The general public knows all it needs to know about this. They know what happened in an incident that involved a lot of visible police activity, and they know there's no danger to themselves or others. That's all you need to know. It is no reporter's job to dig in to the pain and angst of a man or woman driven to suicide, and it's really no one's business, other than his family's, who may still never know. It is a private matter at this point.
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On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
7:18 am on Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Trust me, I have. A man dies, and all anyone can talk about are typos. I think it's sad. — Marge
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On the article Man Found Dead in Car is Identified; Was From Essex
Marge Neal
5:40 am on Saturday, May 18, 2013
Folks, refrain from calling people names, or using playground derivations of people's names; the comments will be removed. — Marge