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Poorcollegeboy,Take it easy on him...he's not very bright.......small words!RG
Would'nt suprise me if ShantyBasher and Mr(s) Phillips were one in the same.
This breaking news....!! Just in.....did everyone here the news Phillips the "writer" has just flipped over to peta. He is no longer a fisherman.
My contribution...Mr Phillips, Today, I read your article on "Icefishermen tell tale of two anglers", in the e-zine FWDailynews.com. I do not understand how you can have a conversation through email, with one angler, "jon", but, not have any conversation, regardless of the means, with the other 2 anglers you write about. It appears that you made a mistake in adding IceShanty.com to your article, & apparently not making an effort to contact IceShanty.coms' Administrator, or any of the members who act as moderators, and ask them about their views on this subject. In addition, you apparently didn't contact an authority from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources asking about their viewpoint on this subject ,either. It seems to this reader, after not doing anything other that conversing thru email, with someone who seems to share "your" views... "jon". You then write an article, which should be more accurately described as "your opinion", basing the whole article on a "one-sided" viewpoint, namely , your "viewpoint". I would think that you , by the writing of this opinionated, one-sided article, have shown a lack of "ethics" yourself. What kind of professional journalist, would write an article about a possible lack of "morals" & "ethics", & then not get the views on the subject, by all parties involved. An "ethical" one? I doubt it. By not allowing all the parties involved to make their views known, you have shown a lack of respect for those parties & have only caused yourself to appear as a biased, uninformed, opinionated, person. Maybe another columnist should write an unbiased, informed, unopinionated article, about journalists who write one-sided stories & pass them off as covering the "whole story". They may be able to use your article as an example. It's unfortunate that you wrote this article like you did. I have a suggestion. Try writing another article, as a "follow up", to your "Icefishermen tell tale of two anglers" article, & get all the facts & all sides of the story.... and in addition, after some self-contemplation, maybe an apology, or retraction for being "one-sided". Unless of course, "jon"s and your side are the only side to this.... Then we will really know what kind of a columnist you are, won't we?Respectfully Yours, If any is due,MnSportsman
Lobes,I'm curious , what make you think someone is proud? Or who might be?
Sounds to me like who ever screens the responses from this newspaper are encouraging a little rabble rousing. Just based on comments that have been thrown around on this article.My thought is, my last comment was presented much the same way I float a nightcrawler past the nose of a highly agressive brook trout ... NBG