Charlie Bermant

A regular contributor to Crosscut.

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Charlie Bermant covers Port Townsend for the Peninsula Daily News. You can reach him in care of cybermant@gmail.com.

Active since April 2007

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Anonymous? Website comments are not all created equal

Posted Tue, Aug 10, 7:46 a.m.

This is nothing new. I wrote this piece http://crosscut.com/2008/06/28/media/15407/You,-anonymous/ two years ago right on this very site. This may be a bit like blowing my own horn, but that's the nature of the Internet. If I don't blow ot, no one else will. The new version takes my version to ...

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Ready for your close-up? 

Posted Fri, Dec 11, 11:41 a.m.

Well, that's my point. If you “show your ass" when someone points a camera your way that is a choice. I'm recommending good behavior for people who may be caught unaware, picking their nose "privately" and finding themselves part of an online montage of booger farmers. Some people will be ...

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Another riposte to Mayor Bozeman

Posted Mon, May 11, 11:25 p.m.

Wow, no one has ever suggested that I was in an exalted position as a member of anything, but if disclosure matters I am a reporter for the Port Orchard Independent. I didn't bring this up before because this was a personal opinion of a topic outside of my beat. ...

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Another riposte to Mayor Bozeman

Posted Mon, May 11, 8:20 a.m.

Since there are so many sources out there competing for my attention, I stopped reading Ms. Godden's piece after the first line. Cary Bozeman did not "come to Seattle" to trash the city and its leaders, rather he did so during a mayor's conference in Bremerton, which he hosted. My ...

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You, anonymous

Posted Sat, Jun 28, 7:08 p.m.

Author's Note: Sorry that I didn't join the discussion earlier. I was unplugged. A few points: • I was born in 1954. So on my family vacations we littered freely, wore no seat belts and Mom smoked. This has all changed. Sorry I didn't include that perspective. • The idea ...

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