09/24/08 READER SUBMITTED COMMENTS: Re: Pissy Pisani?

Do not put the real name on this please

Hey,

I don't want to start a Pisani Parade but who am I to turn down such a theatrical performance?

I have to admit, I'm not familiar w/the Moxley issues, probably because I was reading the Advocate and was focused elsewhere. I do, however, sympathasize w/the family. If a newspaper can't protect the innocent, the young, or the murdered.....what the heck are they there for?

Let's see.

One poster here at Greenwich Roundup said that RC was being too nice to Joseph?

Personally, I think the article did not go far enough.

Every article of Pisani's I have suffered through had a certain air of superiority about it that I found irritating. I don't know one man who wouldn't click on a pop-up at least once, unless they were gay. Is JP gay?

For all the hours he spent at St John's, did he ever consider writing a column w/the slightest edge of christianity? No, he likes to pick on people. Like, 50 year old male divorcees sitting in a bar. Who cares?

The girls I know laugh it off cause a 50 year old divorcee is harmless. According to Pisani, they ae a threat to his daughters. Wake up buddy. You are a threat to your daughters with all the name calling and finger pointing you do, as Editor of The World of Greenwich and Beyond.

"Infidelity" "mistress" and so on. Why do these words pop up in almost every column? Who cares who's doing whom, as long as it doesn't involve someone you love? People cheat. That is just a fact. Why is JP so preoccupied with this topic? Just wondering.

Joe a man of many hats. He has a holy hat, a hat that's full of shit, a crown for the Prince of Pissy (and whoever wote that he is pissy hit the nail on the head) and a hat I'd like to knock off his smug face.

I have endured all the Pisani Print I can swallow.

Someone tell me, how many newspapers/blogs/nonsense does he write (generous term) for? Please name them so I can avoid them

(Edits For This Post Were Made, Because Of Language And To Prevent Identifying The Poster)

Comment:

Dang it.

This Joe "the Censor" Pisani series of rants were going so well.

But now I partially must be on Joe "the Censor" Pisani's side of the issue.

A year ago, I probably would have agreed that Mr. Pisani's moralizing and the constant wearing of his religious beliefs on his sleeve was distasteful.

However, of late I have become a bit of a Bible thumper.

Before, I would have not thought it appropriate to question what two consenting adults do.

As of late, I have seen what infidelity has done to families members and children.

Often times the easy answer is to break up a dysfunctional family, that results in group of 50 year old divorced men sitting in a bar sharing a drink called loneliness.

In the church I have been attending there I am familiar with a family that was just about as dysfunctional as things could get. The Father, Mother and some of the offspring were using and abusing drugs. The children were having to move into a new home about every other year. Of coarse the husband and wife separated.

Years ago, I would have advised the woman in this situation to get her and her children out of this dysfunctional marriage and to start cleaning up her own life for the sake of her children.

However, I would have been wrong.

This family with the help of the church was able to transform itself. The husband and wife got back together. The drug and alcohol abuse came to an end and the children, became exceptionally well behaved and model citizens here in town.

The oldest daughter, became a doctor and the entire family along with other members of Harvest time church are going to Africa in a few weeks to run a massive medical clinic.

They go every year on these independent mercy missions.

I have repeated heard of and currently seen similar stories at the church I now attend.

Personally, I like many others was a product of a broken home. my father came and went in and out of the house several times, before he finally left for good when I was about seven years old.

My mother was a barmaid that worked two jobs to support my younger sister and I.

Tips from lonely 50 year old divorced guys feed my sister and I. Every morning we would go and wake up my mother and she would dig into her tip jar to give us money for school.

I was the King Of Quarters, while attending elementary school.

To this day I never turn down dropping a dollar into a tip jar. This habit in fact drives my wife nuts. We go to the gas station I am leaving a tip, we stop at the deli for coffee I am leaving a tip, etc, etc., etc......

After school I would pick up my sister and watch her until her bedtime.

Because my mother had to pretty much work seven days there were no family events, vacations or activities. At times life seemed a bit unfair, but I got used to it.

So I can not fault Joe Pisani for expressing his moral views and his desire to discourage adultery and to keep families from taking the easy way out and getting a divorce.

I can fault, Mr. Pisani for unapologetialy denying certain voices in the community access to the newspaper that he headed.

There are many stories I have heard where a person would complain about coverage and Mr. Pisani would tell them to send a letter to an editor that would never see the light of day.

Sometimes, Mr. Pisani would tell someone like Bill Clarke that they were forever banned from the community discussion at the Greenwich Time.

Or sometimes, a persons comments were pulled from one of newspapers website, for saying the newspaper was wrong for not publishing certain pictures, this happened to Chris, who runs the station stops blog.

Worse yet was Joe Pisani allowed the Greenwich Time to be a very media compliant newspaper. Blogger Greenwich Diva has written how Greenwich Time reporters misreported what happened to her when she complained about certain actions the town took against her.

Joe Pisani is so loved by the powers that be, because he kept them from being held accountable to the rest of Greenwich Society.

This year under Joe Pisani's leadership reporter Neil Vidgor refused to publish the copies of the fake beach passes that were given to him.

I had a Greenwich Time Reporter Martin Cassidy say that he was told by the Greenwich Time editors to back off issues I was raising about the Greenwich Police Department, because Police Chief David Ridberg was infuriated with the paper.

Martin was writing a story about how there had been 80 civilian complaints against the Greenwich Police Department over a two year period and how there might be a need for an independent civilian complaint review board in town t handle the complaints.

The center of the story was going to be how illegally appointed Captain Michael Pacewitcz had cleared police officers for a retaliatory search of my wives store, because of posts at this blog.

Pacewitz's so-called investigation involved talking with the officers. Pacewitz refused to take statements from my wife, a customer in our store, witnesses in the neighborhood or myself. The officers were just cleared.

There were many other instances of Pacewitz not conducting proper investigations that would make the police department more accountable.

The example of how my civilian complaint was handled was to be the center of the story.

Police officers started to give Greenwich Time crime reporter Martin Cassidy trouble when he went to get information to look at the police blotter and refused to talk to him about incidents in town.

This Greenwich Time article was killed and never saw the light of day.

Just like the Greenwich Time's independent investigation of the Martha Moxley murder sat in Joe Pisani's desk drawer for over a decade.

Time and time again, Joe Pisani caved in and chose to head a compliant media organization that wouldn't report on controversial issues unless forced to.

The unaccountable politician's and employees loved Joe "The Censor" Pisani, but the victims or critics of town actions were censored.

Almost all of the citizen journalists and commentators in Greenwich had been burned by Joe Pisani and his desire to play it safe and head a compliant media organization.

Joe "the Censor" Pisan''s reputation was so bad in media circles that no other newspaper would hire him as an editor, even though many media investors and owners live right here in Greenwich and knew that Joe "The Censor" Pisani was available to drive another daily newspaper straight into the ground.

For the record, I have gotten things wrong here at times, but when I have I have apologized or at the very least allowed the oppposing view to post, but have you ever seen Joe Pisani ever apologize for keeping the independent investigative story of a murdered child under wraps for a decade?

Did you ever se Mr. Pisani say I was wrong for how I treated the investigative reporter who complained that Moxley story that he worked so hard on was not going to be published?

Have you heard Joe Pisani say I could have done a much better job of allowing all members of Greenwich society to have a voice at the Greenwich Time?

Maybe if Joe reached out to those he hurt, then the postings about him would not be so harsh.

There hae been so many persons who have shared experiences about Joe Pisani, but do not post what happened, because Mr. Pisani now has that free column at the Greenwich Post and they are afraid of getting burned by Pisani a second time.

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