One of my favorite things to do is to post something that I know the local media doesn’t have a clue about then wait about 12-24 hours while the media crafts a story around one of my blog posts. Which I updated yesterday at 2 PM but was originally posted late Tuesday night. My first comment was Wednesday morning at 8 AM, long before our local MSM even gets out of bed.
I do always check the local MSM sites to see if any of them have reported it, and if so, HOW? Half the time they beat me to the punch, but leave out important details.
I also ‘LIFT’ from the local media, but NOT to get the news story, just to editorialize it, so THANK YOU.
I want you to know, this ain’t hard hitting journalism, I am an editorial blogger and could care less who covers what. I simply dropped a text to a councilor and they told me what was going on, heck, I even sent the text while riding bike.
What I find ironic is our lazy butt journalists in this town will IGNORE my leads or go TATTLE TALE to the administration and help them cover something up, like perjured campaign forms at the School District, then wait for Detroit to post something then try to create their own BS story around my blog post. Just look at KELOLAND’s story, I might as well have wrote it for them!
Here are some more ‘LIFTS’.
I think it is sad that three of the largest media groups in SF decided just to wait while that Toad at DaCola posts something. How do I know they are ‘lifting’? Because I have gotten texts within minutes of a post from some local journalists asking me questions.
So while I am a whiner, it also seems I am a pretty good source for your drivel.
Next time you want to ‘lift’ something from me, why not drop me a line and find out what I ‘really’ know. I often tell folks about 75% of my leads never get posted because I can’t get the local media to help me dig around.
Do you guys get paychecks? It makes me wonder sometime if these folks are volunteers because they ain’t working real hard.