I don’t feel the need to dwell on this drama, though, anymore than I care about ‘balloon boy’.

Because this is no longer about he said / she said / they said. This has morphed into the need to sustain the drama.

Not everything in life gets tidied up into nice neat packages. Life is not black and white.

I think your message about due diligence is an excellent one and I am glad you would be a proponent of it. But I also think it’s not the only one so wouldn’t write it off as enough to do just that.

As for what would make me happy? Well to go back and undo all this, but that’s not possible. So I guess the next best thing to ask is what would have made you/us happy if the TSA had indeed made this trespass on Nic? I think the answer is to not try and hasten the passing of the occurance to make things easier at the cost of obtaining it’s proper closure.

Nothing more might ever come from Nic on this… but I don’t think a few days is really long enough to just wrap it up… as I said, bloggers need to show integrity by approaching situations where their own are at fault in the same manner and with the same tanacity that they did when it was someone else at fault, whatever that may mean to you personally.

And I stand by the last one. One of my good friends has a daughter who’s battling brain cancer. Compared to that, does it really matter if some blogger somewhere lied about something. Not really. In the grand scheme of things, this is drama, and not a earth shattering topic.

And, again, I never did attack the TSA. So, again, (since this is my personal blog), what purpose would calling out Nic repeatedly serve? Do I think we should just walk away from this and forget it ever happened? Even if that is what I wanted, it would be impossible to do.

I think if any lesson should come from this it’s due diligence, on the part of bloggers and the media. If bloggers want journalistic respect then we have to be willing to do the research to verify information before reporting it.

I guess, my question to you would be – what would make you happy in this situation? Knowing that Nic is not going to say anything further and the TSA has said their part, what is left to do?

-**If you have no idea what this post is about, trust me when I say you don’t want to. Just walk away and forget you ever read it**

-Consider yourself lucky. lol. This is one of those situations where ignorance really is bliss.

-Really, none of this matters in the bigger picture anyway.

Maybe I read it wrong but i take those as dismissive suggestions.

As for what might happen soon and continuing to call a friend hout? Well, if the TSA hadn’t responded and put up their standard stone walling how long would you have continued to press the issue?

Don’t take it wrong, it’s not a personal ttack on you, just a general statement towards bloggers and social informtion spreaders everywhere.

I think there are a lot of questions that need to be answered before this is ever laid to rest.

And if you go and look at my twitter stream, you’ll see that was not part of calling out the TSA, despite Nic being my friend.

I agree that it would be wonderful if all parties in this dispute were upfront and the full truth came to light. That doesn’t seem to be happening, though, and I can’t see it happening anytime soon. So, with that in mind, what would you suggest I do? Continue to call my friend out? To what end and for what purpose if it’s not going to change anything?

No, I have said my piece on this, Nic knows how I feel about the topic, and as much as I would like resolution for everyone, I’m realistic enough to realize we don’t live in a Utopian society.

However I do beg the question why the advice to move on and live in ignorance simply because it’s is easier or nicer?

Certainly it would have been easier and nicer to pretend the TSA never did anything wrong wback when it was assumed they did… but that wasn’t the advice then.

Isn’t every lesson, painful as it may be, worth learning? I know it’s unpleasant that this one comes at the cost of a close relation to you, but surely had freinds and family of the TSA workes at th etime said it wa spainful to them, please let it blow over it would not have sat well…

I guess wha tI am saying is it seems if ou are giong to be part of calling out a wrong when it’s (allegedly) done and call for transparency and righteousness on their part to teach a lesson, isn’t it only right to do the same even if the subject is closer to heart and not just an entity you can distance yourself from while addressing?

This whole event has cast a shadow on the blogging community and social networking in so many ways… I think just like demands of the TSA to be upfront and honest about their mistakes, the blogging community should show it’s integrity and equally report, discuss and learn from wrongdoings from inside their walls as well…

I am sure everyone would agree, double standards are not what the bogging community should be about creating.