The War Room

[Darrell McPhaul]

I guess I was one of the few that thought Chip did a good job? Yes, a lot of the information has been already talked about but, not to the depth & detail he summarized.

 

[Capn Hook]

Well crap, I thought the job of this board was to criticize OBs at every turn. J/K, I agree with your take, he had much more in-depth information than I had seen previously.

 

[Lukus Alderman]

He did a fantastic job and the writing was superb. There would be very little outcry if there hadn't been a teaser.

 

[DizzG]

I guess I just expected something different, and I think most of the backlash was because OB teased a big report coming all day. I was expecting a bombshell so felt let down. It was a nice summary but most of that has been known for weeks. Most of my antI OB feelings today are due to getting banned however

 

[bbdude]

Chip's a talented guy. Good content and good writer.

 

[Mulligan30]

It was a really good write up. I was thinking there would be more to it because the mods alerted us to the pending story in the War Room. They rarely put out a special alert to a pending story.

 

[dallashorn02]

When hype something coming out as a "special report" and tease it, it gives the impression it will have some breaking news, when there wasn't.

It was a summary rehashing some old talking points.

I'm also not sure it was necessary to out specific names and their salaries. These aren't public figures. I think you can get the drift of what's going on by using general descriptions.

 

[Lord Vader]

The teaser was what caused all the issues. The information itself was informative, and some of those names exposed needed to be brought to light long ago.

 

[Lord Vader]

I'm also not sure it was necessary to out specific names and their salaries. These aren't public figures.

Public record, public institution, public money at work, so thats all open season.

 

[Darrell McPhaul]

Understood.

 

[seahawkhorn]

I commented on OB, that I thought the write up was good, but didn't believe we needed a heads up about it, 12 hours earlier and Ketch commented back that it should have been released much earlier and regretted that is wasn't

 

[Hanna]

I don't have a problem with Chip, and he is a good writer. But sometimes I felt that what he wrote did not contain anything particularly new, just a summation of some of the posts.

I think the recruiting updates were good, though I am not one that really follows recruiting that closely.

 

[ATX89]

Agree with all that the tease implied more build up than should have been expected. The info was fine and definitely offered additional detail. My concern in reading the back and forth between Ketch and the multitude of posters that were frustrated with the content was that he continued to ask where he or Chip stated the report would have bombshell type info. He failed to acknowledge, in my opinion, that the tease itself and which lasted over 10 HOURS, along with labeling it a "Special Report" to the War Room implies some hellaciously serious news coming down the pipe. In his defense, Ketch did apologize for the tease itself so I think he gets it to some degree, but his back and forth with posters didn't seem consistent with his taking responsibility for the tease in my opinion.

 

[Topstarr]

I thought Chip wrote a fine Part 1 of the war room

 

[Horn78]

Well written piece on mostly old news.