{"id":29564,"date":"2018-05-05T01:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29564"},"modified":"2018-05-05T01:32:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T01:32:52","slug":"social-media-sometimes-a-poisonous-purveyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29564","title":{"rendered":"Social media: sometimes a poisonous purveyor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am likely never to fall totally in love with social media. I have accepted its presence our lives. However, there are times when I detest it with — as my mother used to say — “with a purple passion.”<\/p>\n

Amarillo City Councilman Howard Smith has posted this item on Facebook, which I’ll share here:<\/p>\n

It has come to my attention that a Facebook page has been created called: Howard Smith for Mayor 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n

I want this to be crystal clear. I did not start this page, nor do I support it.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am excited to continue my work on the Amarillo City Council. I have absolutely NO intention of running for Mayor.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I think Mayor Nelson is doing a tremendous job, and I am honored to work alongside her and my fellow Council Members to help move Amarillo forward.<\/em><\/p>\n

Additionally, a GoFundMe account has been created to pay legal fees to oppose the building of the MPEV.<\/em><\/p>\n

I, Howard Smith, did not contribute to this fund. I support the MPEV.<\/em><\/p>\n

During this digital age when misinformation is so easily distributed, I encourage you to reach out to me with any questions or concerns.<\/em><\/p>\n

I respectfully ask that anyone pretending to be me or anyone utilizing my name please stop immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n

What, do you suppose, caused this little item to show up? My hunch is that it has something<\/em> to do with that recent dust up regarding Ginger Nelson’s decision to crack down on applause during City Council meetings.<\/p>\n

As for the MPEV construction, if Councilman Smith says he supports it, I’ll take him at his word.<\/p>\n

Social media can be pervasive. They can spread rumors faster than a Texas Panhandle wildfire. It become incumbent on those who become subject of social media discussion to use the media to counteract it or to endorse it, whichever is the case.<\/p>\n

Howard Smith has counteracted what he suggests are unfounded rumors.<\/p>\n

It’s good to stay alert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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I am likely never to fall totally in love with social media. I have accepted its presence our lives. However, there are times when I detest it with — as my mother used to say — “with a purple passion.” Amarillo City Councilman Howard Smith has posted this item on Facebook, which I’ll share here: … Continue reading Social media: sometimes a poisonous purveyor<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[288,1676,6754,4300],"class_list":["post-29564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-amarillo-city-council","tag-facebook","tag-ginger-nelson","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29566,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29564\/revisions\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}