Buckshot Was Diffeent

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "No Blog In The Sixties ,,,by Golly":

But, you had a venue with your "Buckshot" column in the Banner. What couldn't you say in it?
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Oh My Dear.....the difference is like chalk to cheese.
In the firstplace, Buckshot  was subject to editorial authority.
 After the Mayor agreed to write a Mayor's report, Buckshot  was  directed  away from   political affairs.
It wasn't a hardship. I received  an opportunity to learn and the benefit of an excellent  instructor.
The most important difference is the actual business of a weekly newspaper.
It is not  news.
It is advertising. 
Advertisers are the clients. 
Readers are the bait.
As in  any business, good will is currency.
Writers need to be aware of limitations at all  times .
A newspaper is not like other business.
Since the product is advertising and the publication cannot guarantee the success of any ad, accounts must be current at all times.  
A unique aspect  of politics is how much one learns of  business and professional service provided throughout the community. 
There is no university that provides or could provide   enlightenment more than  service as an elected  representative. 
But  a Councillor has to be open to  learning and have the ability. 
It's like living a long life. The more one learns the more one understands how much there is to learn.
The ridiculousness of having someone  a fraction of  one's age ,advising  "how things have changed" has to be experienced. 
Why would someone a quarter of one's life span presume to imagine, he, it's almost always he, is  in a position to  publicly advise of change in times,sixty years previous to his own life span.
How would he understand the extent of change and how much remains the same, which  he has not lived. 
It's so ridiculous , it's comical. 
When it become irritating, it's  time to pin his  ears  to his head and keep them pinned until he learns the  lesson.