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I appreciate good journalism and your right to say or communicate anything you wish on this web site. Its a good site and one of only two I still look at. Most everything you stated regarding Pacific Paintball was close to target….however, I think your discussion of the cost structure at Pacific Paintball might have ended without the painstaking discussion of employee salaries and benefits. It would have been sufficient to state they had an overhead problem and mentioned the total number. Your point could then have been made while preserving the privacy of the individuals listed. The employees of Pacific Paintball have been through enough.
Thanks.
Mark Dodge
Mark,
their privacy on these matters was breeched by the court filings, not by me.
and I think there are some good and beneficial reasons for posting such: the amount listed may not be correct – and those individuals can now correct it; there may be someone who ought to be on that list who isn’t; the industry as a whole, who in some ways supported those salaries through sponsorship/entry fees might be interested to see what they were getting for their money and so forth.
I appreciate your position. However, it was my belief that the potential benefits out-weighed the negatives in this case. YMMV.
And given your comments, I also think that it is appropriate to point out that 68Caliber 2.0 remains a ‘blog’ – not a news site. In some cases the distinction may be thin, but it is there nonetheless and, as such, the site leans more towards opinion and commentary than it does towards news. Hard news appears on 68Caliber.com. Inside information, speculation, opinion, commentary, editorializing and etc appears here.
And thanks for commenting!