Perhaps there simply aren't enough FP's to do the job - manage the site, write diaries, lead opinion, set the tone, provide editorial direction, encourage newcomers, massage hurt feelings, e-market the site, run campaigns, represent Eurotrib in the real world in various countries and on a wide range of topics. I think it may be a case of two few people trying to do too much and there being insufficient differentiation/specialisation and delegation of tasks to enable anything to be done in a very sustained way without burn-out for the few.
says in a nutshell exactly what I think. (With no pun on "the few").
However, you may have misunderstood my question about the wide-ranging discussion site. I'm not defending a "propaganda" vision (though Ford knows we are inundated by propaganda and have a right to reply in kind), but asking you how you see the function and influence of the kind of site you envisage.
but asking you how you see the function and influence of the kind of site you envisage.
I would like to see ET getting to the stage where, like DKos, Huffington post and a number of other US sites, it is widely known and read, and a standard reference point for anyone (including, but not exclusively journalists, parliamentarians and policymakers) writing about a topic or wishing to be informed about it - with particular reference to EU and supranational issues - a sort of mini emergent Demos for a polity which lacks a direct popular base (other than an election every 4 years). "It's a mystery to me - the game commences, For the usual fee - plus expenses, Confidential information - it's in my diary..."
