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UPDATED: Apparently I took this photo of Carmen Toft?

They sent me an email today apologizing;

Scott –

I just saw your blog post about KSFY News crediting your site for the photo.  I never got the email you said you sent.  Do you know what address you sent it to?

Our intent was not to connect you to the story, rather credit your site for where we obtained the photo since we weren’t able to obtain one on our own.  We were attributing your site just like we would any other news outlet or source that has information we haven’t be able to confirm on our own.  We’ve attributed many other photos in the past, including viewer submissions, photos from radio stations, etc.  In the future, we will make a better attempt to contact you.

The photo of Carmen on her Facebook page is rather small, and you can’t get the larger version unless you friend her.  Obviously she still hasn’t responded to our friend request.  Plus, we don’t typically pull photos from Facebook pages unless we can confirm that the photo is in fact the person, or incident described in the photo is legitimate.  I have not met Carmen in person and no one in the newsroom at that time had either.  In the world of Facebook, who’s to say someone didn’t set up a fake page of Carmen.  Just trying to cover our bases.

Thanks for keeping us honest!  Take care.

Kevin King
News Director


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KSFY needs to grow a brain, I sent this email to them this afternoon after seeing this on their website, which is still up;

I noticed you have my website as a byline under the picture of Carmen Toft. Not sure why? I want it removed. I got the picture of her from her Facebook page.

Not sure if they are trying to tie Carmen to my site or not? I have never met her in person, but I do like her and find it unfortunate that she had to drop out because of the incident. But more importantly KSFY needs to their research. Like most politicians you can go to their FACEBOOK pages and get a picture of them, like I did. I guess KSFY goes to blogs to get pictures, and they don’t read their emails. Maybe they will see this post when searching for another politician photo and fix the image.

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