Atomic City Talk

I’m sorry to have to start a new thread on such a ridiculous topic, but on The Oak Ridger’s forum, there are several posts about me and The Oak Ridge Observer.

Deciding the record needed to be corrected, I tried to register to defend myself on their forum. I attempted to register under my own name – Stan Mitchell – and from my work e-mail address: smitchell@oakridgeobserver.com. I merely wanted to defend the accusations, not promote my paper.

Yet, they declined to approve my registration, without saying why. This is upsetting, but seems to follow a trend, in my opinion, regarding the operation of their forums. Regardless, I want to make sure the record gets corrected and a friend of mine suggested I post a reply on here.

Besides the petty comments, here is the comment I feel I must respond to, posted by “Rook”: “Its not Stan that wears the big shoes at the weekly - its Robin Biloski. She's one of the primary owners and calls the shots.”

This is completely false and absolutely absurd. Robin is a part-time employee who sells advertising. While she and her husband are indeed an investor in the company – one of 11 other investors, all of whom only own 4% shares of the company – I am the majority owner and I have absolute and complete editorial control.

Stan Mitchell

Give em hell Stan!

I would not lose too much sleep over it Stan.....everyone in Oak Ridge knows that the 4 people who post over there are mentally challenged.

It is unfortunate that The Oak Ridger has allowed that site to become gutter scum, but then look at their dead tree edition......it has become basically the same thing. It's no wonder the paper continues to change hands........maybe the National Enquirer will be the next owner!

Um, yes. To all of the above.

I'm delighted to see you here, and hope that you'll come back often. As you know, this forum was started because theirs is inadequately managed (much as, perhaps, your paper was started because... ).

It's good to have some diversity.

Stan:

Your credibility speaks for itself. You would know who calls the shots if you have any dealings with the Observer.

The morons stay true to form.

I can certainly agree with all of the above. The daily has sunk to what we used to call in my day "yellow journalism." Why they allow those nuts to continue to post on their forum is beyond me!

I enjoy posting over there occasionally, just to get the goat of the couple of nuts that dominate that board, neither of whom can spell, nor argue, nor articulate a position that makes any sense whatsoever.

Hey Stan, thanks for the correction. Remember us in your editorials; we can use the publicity.

Finally an honest statement from Leeroy Gilliam on the Oak Ridger forum. Referring to the content posted on that bottom feeding site by the remaining three members.

"I AM SURE NO ONE TAKES ANYTHING SAID ON THIS FORUM AS NO MORE THAN COMMUNITY HUMOR.

truer words...