Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Should the 45th POTUS return to twitter?

 Well here's one hope of many on the right if industrialist Elon Musk is successful in his bid to buy out Twitter. Could former President Donald J Trump regain his twitter account which was permanent banned and suspended not long after that so-called insurrection on January 6, 2021?

If you're asking me, I'm a long way from saying Musk will do the unthinkable and allow President Trump back onto the platform. One thing I will say we were discussing Twitter a lot more when Trump wrote his mean tweets.

I feel as if you allow representatives from repressive regimes from around the world such as the Taliban to use this very public and important platform then why keep a former President off? And as my own complain with censorship you come up with excuses to de-platform someone like the former President who although he lost the election he was still the sitting President.

I feel as if Twitter hasn't been making the news as it has been since Trump was permanently banned from the platform. If nothing else Musk put that platform right back on the news lately.

If I do hear anything about Twitter in recent months it might be something wrestling related or perhaps some controversy I found out from some conservative or a Twitter critic I do follow. Usually when it comes to the controversy there might be a note of a meltdown from what is said to be Twitter's core audience - a progressive left liberal.

You know would Elon Musk be attempting to buyTwitter had they not bumped Donald Trump off the platform? Beyond allowing him back on, this is something worth pondering.

Friday, March 14, 2014

Proofreading

Something I like to pride myself is being a good writer although at times my writing isn't as clear as it should be. Sometimes I go through past posts and see where the grammar and the meaning of sentences could be improved. Often times I just simply change them long after the fact.

I'm usually prompted when finding that old posts recieves visitors although the main thing about blogs is that they're constantly updated. For the most part a blog reader isn't exactly going through the archives thoroughly. They're reading for the more recent posts and the blog must be constantly updated.

Reading one of the more recent posts one morning there was one mistake that certainly changed the meaning of what was supposed to be said. It was the post about the state trooper who took a phone call answering questions about a newly enacted law his agency was expected to enforce. Seeing the mistake although days after the fact, it was important to make a word substitution to make clear the point of the necessary statement.

Acknowledging that as a blogmaster that sometimes writing mistake are made, it's time to do better within that regard. Perhaps it's time to do some proofreading before hitting publish. Even better perhaps the post need not be published when done writing, but can be scheduled so that there is time to properly proofread. Or at the very least leave the post as the draft so that it would get one more proofread before publication.

With that being said, I shall do better in the future!