Dear Editor Hampton,
Happy New Year! Will 2014 be this Patch's last? When you start carrying a blog from the Los Angeles, it hints of trouble in Ft Greene. The Different Drummer routinely runs up hundreds in comments from a group of barnacles, few -- maybe none? -- of whom live here. The blog has nothing at all to do with Ft Greene, or Brooklyn or NYC. Does topicality matter any more at Patch? Wasn't it THE point of the Patch system, to be a concentration of "hyper news" the greater media didn't cover but might scan for stories to pick up? That nice function seems to have been swiped right out from under you by DNAInfo. We know the Patch system is in trouble nationally, that a number of sites have been closed down. You yourself are careful not to write about anything much. Will borrowed content and cultivated silliness save this site?
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