BotanyBay said:
Maybe I'm not reading enough. I've seen CN publish more "tough" words in the last 4 months than I think I've ever seen most of the "respectable" news sources do.
What am I missing?
The Clinic, where CN has been deleting each and every post about dru...... oh wait.
Listen, even if I am a mod, I have no links to CN. feel free to take my word as a CN henchman, not as just another poster here. But it would be nice if some of you take into account the incredible freedom you get here to post just about any opinion you have at the moment, from the site-owners, next time you moan about their past or present behaviour, or about censorship, or omerta, or something.
Given that we are in their house, I am amazed just how hands-off they are, on the whole. As a commercial organisation they could have opted for a very different attitude, many similar sites have (and that's why some of you ended up here too, I guess).
That they have embraced the Clinic as part of the ship, and the space they maintain for us to be, well, "us".... I am much happier to offer my services here than I would be on many other sites.
Sure, criticise them, keep 'em honest. But if that's where you stop, or if that's the totality of your opinion of the CN ship.... then that's a bit one-sided, as far as I am concerned.
I would argue that Floyd Landis has been given a very fair hearing here in the clinic for a heck of a long time. I can name several similar cycling sites where his name alone would be enough for moderators to wade in.
If there has something in the past, and there is some bad blood between CN news and Landis for a good reason, he is still a weird spot to say "I won't make that mistake again", when Mr Not So Clean Either himself is begging for a new and fair hearing, and a second chance. Third, fourth? Who is counting.
"I won't make that mistake again" can be turned right back at him. He has a lot of supportive posts on this site. Maybe he isn't totally aware of what is happening on the current CN site. Here more than on most high-traffic sites that I had a look at recently.