Jack Sullivan, another local “journalist” tweeted I am “a bitter bitter man”. First off it is very sexist to assume I am a man.
And second, don’t you love the hate and bitterness readily apparent in most of the local scribes’ writings. My goodness, talk about gleefully beating dead horses, kicking people when they are down, and making sure they never get up. Nothiong but hate aimed towards their target of the day.
Point being, up until the internet revolution the media never saw push back in public. They can’t take it. Especially around here. It’s all about being accepted by their peers and invited to the right get to togethers. Obvious to anyone paying attention.
And many in the press know it. They’ve spent a lifetime not mattering and angry at that those who do so many just go primal with the keyboard and take those that matter down because they can.
Oh, and as for my anonymity.
Well jack, I don’t get paid for this. Unlike you, I don’t need this. I also don’t have the backing and security working for an institution such as yours provides. You have those wagons with money and the local media orgy to circle around.
Let me ask you something Jack. Who would those in the know rather read if they could choose only one piece on any given day? Something with your name on it or something with my name?
Sorry Jack, you just don’t get it. But then if you did you wouldn’t be Jack Sullivan.
Christopher says
…and choose the name Ernie Boch III, then I wouldn’t get too upset about the male assumption. Ernie tends to be a male name and only males use Roman numerals in their personal names.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
ernestine?
gmoke says
Not only are you a bitter, bitter Ernie Boch III (whoever that may be), you are an attention-seeking egotist who’s very sure of his/her/its opinion. One might even say arrogant.
Which makes you little or no different from everybody else who writes online for their own amusement.
Yeah, there’s nothing so thin-skinned as a journalist who’s been criticized. At least, that’s my experience.
john-hosty-grinnell says
People tend to maintain anonymity when they say and do things they don’t want to have to answer for. Anyone who peruses EB3’s comments can see little constructive value in them, leaving me to wonder why the mighty three that run this sight hold onto shim.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
most people on BMG and other blogs. Only difference is I usually have a point of view different than yours john hosty grinnell, if that is your name.
And hey, about those anonymous no good so and sos up to no good during WWII? You remember John, the members of the French Resistance.
john-hosty-grinnell says
With your first point, however, the trouble makers are almost always anonymous. The jury is still out on you as far as I’m concerned, but I do know that you are not on the same level as the French Resistance, LOL!
dave-from-hvad says
being able to say things without having to answer for them. For instance, I’ve seen many statements in Ernie’s posts about certain people with possible connections to organized crime that led me to conclude that Ernie would probably not want his/her address and identity to be known to them. One can debate whether it’s fair or ethical to accuse someone of criminal acts, for instance, from behind a veil of anonymity, but it’s my impression that Ernie may choose to remain anonymous for his own safety.
striker57 says
stay out of EB3’s kitchen is the advice I’d offer.
Ernie is value added IMHO. I don’t have to agree with him (actually I seldom agree with him) but he brings something to the table.
And mighty three have put him in the penalty box on ocassion. To his credit he hasn’t taken his ball and gone home. He hung in and came back.
jconway says
He is hit or miss for me, but the vitriol seems unnecessary.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
i have a little Herald and Globe in me.
HR's Kevin says
He seems awfully heat sensitive himself whenever criticism goes back in his direction.
eb3-fka-ernie-boch-iii says
You son of a bitch. How dare you to even suggest I can’t take criticism. Only an idiot would think thta.
Show me one example, just one, where I show an inkling of having a thin skin.
My goodness, you dick!
judy-meredith says
n/t
mike_cote says
You recently wrote:
and you think others are sexist because they assume you are a man? What the hell is wrong with you, man?
I don’t even believe Phyllis Schlafly would say crap like that.
dave-from-hvad says
but maybe you should think about the tone of your own comments. I have no problem with you calling Ernie out on his references to Hillary Clinton or anyone else, but referring to any poster’s statements as “crap,” or saying things like “what the hell is wrong with you?” don’t seem to me to fit within the framework of constructive debate. We can all decide for ourselves whether something is crap or not.
mike_cote says
EB3 knows everything, and everyone else on the planet is a pathetic weasel. One the balance, I would like to put “What the hell is wrong with you?” and “crap” on one side of the scale, and “If Hillary never sucked Bill’s cock” on the other, and which way would the scales indicate as the most offensive? I would suggest that EB3 is by far more offensive than myself.
I put that proposition forward in the frame of constructive debate!
dave-from-hvad says
I’m not saying that what Ernie writes is in good taste or that it’s not sometimes offensive. But the difference between his Hillary comment and your comments is his comment does not directly attack another poster on BMG. I’m suspecting you’ll now look for some comment of his that blasts you or another BMG poster, but I’ve only seen him do that in response to a flame thrown at him first. So, in the spirit of constructive debate about the discourse on this site, I would actually have to put Ernie above you at this time.
mike_cote says
It is in praise of “Push Back”, as if by writing yet another variation of the same old, “Nobody in the Boston Media knows anything about anything” somehow makes him the Working Class Hero of us all. So I try to demonstrate the same “Push Back”, by suggesting his gross and offensive remarks about Hillary Clinton disprove the very point he is trying to make, and that translates to: I am a mean bully that is always picking on poor poor EB3. Whatever.
jconway says
Stop reading them. You know they will always annoy you and get you into flame wars you aren’t going to win, since flame wars, like Gaza incursions, are sorta unwinnable propositions to begin with.
Whenever I see a DFW comment or post, I ignore it, or type up a comment and don’t post. And if you notice, this strategy has worked since he has gone back to hibernation. I would argue, that getting into flame wars with EB3 boosts his comment count on threads, making them look bigger and more important than they are, boosts his ego, and makes you look like the lesser person. Just some friendly advice from someone who enjoys your own threads and your comments, but is sorta tired of you getting baited again and again.
jconway says
I think it’s best you just moved past them and choose not to comment. Be the bigger man as it were. A lot of them I don’t care for, so I don’t read or comment. Some of them, like the recent Revere one, amuse me and I recommend but don’t comment.
Mark L. Bail says
I use my name, but I like to think it’s what I say, not who I am, that makes my contributions valuable or not.
One thing I like about online communities, you are valued on your contributions. There are some on here who would not be valued even if they were actually the President using a pseudonym. And Doug Rubin knows what he’s getting into when he posts here. It’s pretty democratic. No pun necessary.