But the key part of communications is know your audience. My audience is the diarist, a true believer, utterly faith-based in his approach to the single issue he's been fixated upon here for awhile. So I'm not sure, given this, what more than sub-moronic I would have come up with that would make a difference.
I would point out that the diarist, given what is going on around this issue in the EU right now (just look at Le Monde today for instance), could easily have made an EU-related connexion to make this diary relevant.
That he chooses not to speaks volumes to me about his focus. Which in my view is neither European nor Progressive.
Which I thought were the two important elements of the site.
And again, I understand conservatives are appreciated around here, and that things are not always required to be EU topical, but also I understand we expect conseratives on the site to be polite about their disagreements, which we ourselves are even when in strong dispute.
If you see that politeness in this diary, I guess we are operating under different undrstandings of the term. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
And, I note it did so well before I had time to get here. But I saw an ass doing the same thing to others as he has done to me, getting all GBCW at the slightest of dispute, and seriously man, I've had enough of this shit.
Thank you for correcting my characterization. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
My audience is the diarist
That's not how I read your comment, apart from the final squib.
My beef with your comment is the innuendo about "all these diaries"... being linked in some way to EU trade policies (or why not US, the Dalai Lama being touted by some as a lifelong CIA agent?). It's just getting tiresome the number of people who write about what "this blog is supposed to be about" as if there's some rulebook on what topics can be broached and from what angle. As if those of us who have editorial powers should pick and choose diaries according to the er, party line.
Or, in this case, as if we were kind of encouraging more Tibet diaries because it was good for a supposed EU line on China. (Ssh, no one's supposed to know we've got a hotline to Barroso...)
It's all academic, anyway, since FarEasterner has announced with great insistence his departure from ET. And I (who have no religious leanings at all) regret it.
