It is intentionally that we have chosen not to require you to register in order to post your reactions to our articles, but given the anonymity preferred by some, we would not want to be forced to implement a measure that would require providing a pseudonym or name to post a reaction to an article.
Insults, racist remarks, privacy issues… the list is a bit too long “for our taste,” and we invite any reader who wishes to use this local information platform to express their opinions to respect the rules of courtesy and respect that should govern our everyday life.
As for the reactions or the (numerous) personal emails indicating which political side I am on, which would supposedly determine the bias of our media, I am a socialist who voted for Bayrou in the first round and preferred Ségolène Royal over Nicolas Sarkozy in the second round. However, and I think we often hear this from the personalities close to NP to believe it, Nice Premium is a true media of free information and not at all attached to a party or an ideology. The daily work that we accomplish (in addition to our jobs) with undisguised pleasure is entirely voluntary (only our expenses are reimbursed), and in this, I personally ask for no form of recognition.
We simply want to inform out of pleasure, passion, and a desire to show the city and the region through our little web lens. And even if the world of local press does not consider us journalists, I would respond that it is not a piece of “tricolor striped” paper that determines the quality of a writer and that before judging, especially harshly, one should try to see if there isn’t something to sweep in front of one’s own door.
Nice Premium is left-wing, NP is right. Nice Premium is anti-city hall, NP flirts with Peyrat… We have a bunch of others in the 15,000 messages posted since the opening of our columns and although we know it will not stop after this article, we still hope that it will make some think twice before spewing their venom through the keyboard.
In short, we wanted this space of freedom for you, for us, and to prove that sometimes words still heal the ills.
In short, it’s true that it feels good!
