What's happening?Public outrage over comments sparks her resignation
When Eileen Goode launched a blog last fall about her new life as a public radio reporter and news director in Dillingham, she started with a few jokes about drinking and fishing and incest.The 28-year-old resigned from KDLG on Monday morning, she said, after a firestorm of outrage over the sometimes serious, sometimes mocking jabs she made at the town over problems like alcoholism and sexual abuse on her personal blog, titled "Chilly Hell" and subtitled
"I'm in Dillingham Alaska -- What's Your Excuse?"Four comments from "Chilly Hell"
Quam Fluctus Diversi, Quam Mari....1. I hope you the best, you are alright. Thank you for finally getting us into the 21st century! Our funding up here is also based on all that socio economic devestation and violence, alcohol and sex crimes. Leave on ypur own terms, safety is a good reason...Your writing only got promoted and there is probably more video streaming to the station now, if not maybe more funding to hear your commentary should be found. Anonymous
2. Thanks for the recap, Eileen, and sorry to hear that the folks who actually think what you've written it (albeit, perhaps, not how you've written it) haven't been able to stand up to support you. I wish that, instead of eloquent examples of intolerance as "Get out of Alaska" comments, the end result was "let's talk about this town, and how we can fix some of our problems." July 28, 2009 8:18 PM Luigi
3. You are incoherent and dingy. Have you tried prozac honey? Anonymous
July 28, 2009 11:06 PM Anonymous
4. I feel sorry for the poor guy mistaken enough to ever date/marry your bitter catty a**. July 28, 2009 11:50 PM Anonymous
July recap:"Watching Sarah Palin's press conference on (July 3) Friday was like watching a drunk seal trying to land a plane, or in basketball terms (which Sarah prefers) like watching a grade-schooler try to score on Kobe while jabbering inanely." --Huffington Post blogger David Stemler.
Monday, July 6, 2009 Palin did an interview standing on the shores of Dillingham, Alaska, wearing hip waders.
A Palin orchestrated media spectacle where everyone except CBS was invited. hmmmm....CBS News' Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe, who are writing a book about Palin. A book! Sarah Palin's resignation makes sense to two journalists working on the upcoming book:'Sarah from Alaska' ** Hold them accountable!Friday, July 24, 2009
Governor Palin Appoints 10 People to 7 Boardsvideo:
Red Gold: The Pebble Mine Debate. Bristol Bay, AKThe nitty gritty of it all:"Skulduggery surrounding Pebble Mine? Imagine that"Mudflats: 7/30/09 Pebble Mine, Dirty Gold, and the Corporate War on Alaska’s Salmon
Pebble Mine is only one of the players in the corporate war on salmon that extends from Bristol 
Bay up the coast to the regions of Western Alaska struggling for their subsistence rights against the factory pollock trawlers decimating the salmon heading for the Yukon. This is only one effort, and it will be fought tooth and nail by powerful forces with lots of money.Alaska Real:
Activity on Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay region
Audubon AlaskaFirst Dud in Esquire magazine!Sarah quotes:"Bored, anonymous, pathetic bloggers who lie annoy me....""I eat, therefore I hunt.""This is what I've been telling Bristol, before she gets married, is, Bristol, there are definitely gonna be tough parts in marriage. You have to look at those tough times and remember that you have essentially a business contract with this person.""I bite my lip when I'm tempted to wisecrack, because I'm always thinking of something that I'd love to say but know that I better not say it because of the position that I'm in."Todd Palin,
"How to be a Man" *
Todd Palin's rural village *
Todd Palin guilty!photo:
Dillingham, AkThe Bristol Bay Timesbristol bay times photos
I had a very interesting tête-à-tête last week that I thought I'd share. As you may have guessed, I'm on the email distro lists for all the major Sunday shows and cable news networks, and I get email notifications for who the scheduled guests will be as well as transcripts, p.r. pieces and the like. Last week, when ABC sent me an email that John McCain was going to be their guest again, I sent back a snarky reply asking if they ever had John Kerry on after he lost the election to George Bush as often as they've had McCain, and why, when there are so many actual issues about which the public needs to be informed, they gave so much air time to GOP obstructionism.
excerpton to discuss how the violent rhetoric that used to be relegated to the fringes of the Republican Party which has been mainstreamed since Obama's election and let Sen McCain respond to that? After all, he is the one who brought Sarah Palin to the national stage (and as I recall, actually said on your program that Palin was his "soul mate" after having only had one phone conversation and a short meeting with her before asking her on the ticket) and there is no other politician who has tapped so proficiently into that zeitgeist. I think it would be beneficial for Americans to hear someone of Sen. McCain's gravitas and stature disavow the kind of violent and racist rhetoric we've all seen. I'm more than happy to provide you with contact information for Mr. Neiwert if you are so inclined.
But if you're not interested in putting Sen. McCain on the spot, perhaps next time you do a show on the problems we're facing in Afghanistan, the "balance" you seek would be better achieved by putting on a politician who favors withdrawal, like Rep. Alan Grayson, instead of two hawks who will both say that the most important thing is "winning" in Afghanistan without actually explaining what "winning" means or how we can achieve it militarily. Where's the balance in that
for your viewers?
