Sunday, December 01, 2013

Anonymous reader- Mr. Turner, you have failed this community miserably

Since I authored a commentary Saturday accusing the Joplin Globe of failing this community with its fawning coverage of Joplin city and school leaders since the May 22, 2011, tornado, I feel obliged to offer this post, a comment I received last night, claiming that I am the one who has failed the community.

You can judge for yourself.

The Joplin Globe has served this community well, Mr. Turner. It is you that has failed it miserably.

You were a failure as a newspaper editor, a failure as a teacher, and your Turner Report, Inside Joplin, and those other ridiculous blogs are going down in flames.

It is laughable to think that anyone in Joplin is going to support a cheap-looking, tabloid trash blog, which tries to build readership by attacking good people like Angie Besendorfer and CJ Huff.

You were quite accurately described as a bully. You have such an inferiority complex that you have to make yourself feel better by attacking people who contribute more in five minutes than you have in your entire miserable life.

People do not want to pay for a subscription to the Joplin Globe, which has real news, why would they pay for a cheap pretender who has never met a lie he wouldn't print? I certainly hope Joplin will not have to put up with you much longer. Move somewhere else, start on your next failure and stop attacking people who have reached a status you will never attain- they are decent human beings.

I wish the reader had hot held back and would have told us how he or she really felt.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is to laugh at such buffoonery.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous reader, let Turner's work speak for itself and let your work speak for itself. We see you here so often that you consistently seemed guilty of the things you accuse him of, preventing you from making any impact. There is enough substance here for Turner to remain a compelling read, just as it was with Southernwatch. There is a role in the world for this kind of editorializing and pamphleteering, with lengthy historical precedent, and it isn't anywhere near as hateful as your personal vendetta due to the core of substance and worldview. Your vendetta is nothing more than a vendetta, here in Turner's writings there are points to be made.

Anonymous said...

Hey 5:54 am I write quite a lot of the comments calling turner out on his BS but this is someone else who can see what turner's real motives are. I agree wholeheartedly.

Brian Switzer said...

My definition of a bully, not to mention a gutless coward, is someone who attacks someone else publicly but lacks the sac to put their name behind their words. You can talk plenty of smack, throw around plenty of insults, but you're too cowardly to show your face. You are the worst sort of yapping little mutt, coming out of the shadows to nip at someone but cowering with fear when it comes time to put your name out there.