A Reply to A Reader's Comment

Tesfaye said... December 21, 2007 7:08 AM
Dear Ethiobloger, you seemed to be loyal to the people and smear other websites believing that you are neutral and favored to the people. But what you did is the same as the others did. The only difference is that you stayed on the side of Birhanu and the others are on the side of Haliu.
So,please try to clean up your mind before you charge others dear blogger.
Try to be media for the truth not for your cliques like the other sites you mentioned are doing.

Thanks a lot for your understanding.
Abe Ze-Ethiopia

Comment:
We never claimed to be neutral in any of our posts and we never criticized any website for siding with the Engineer. What we instead criticized was the way they are expressing their disagreement. Instead of focusing on the principles and argue why they think they believe their opponents are wrong, they almost always focus on attacking individuals by talking trash about them. That is what we are against. We are against personal attacks regardless of which side one is on. If you have read the article you commented on we even criticized an article written attacking Engineer Hailu personally. We have to step up and make our discussions on issues rather than individuals. Dear Reader, go to the web pages we criticized and read their posts. We can guarantee you that a good percentage will be on attacking individuals than discussing ideas.
Thanks for reading our blog.
ethiopianbloggers staff.