* Tom Mannis said... "That's four days after this story blew wide open in the Blogosphere. Four days later the Chicago Tribune ran it. Four days in the news business is a hell of a long time. Too bad John Kass is trying to make this story his own. It ain't. But to be fair, any references to the bloggers who have been howling about this for several days now might have been removed by the editors of the Chicago Tribune.
After all, the Blogosphere is taking a lot of readers away from the Dead Tree editions. We bloggers, without using a single sheet of paper, often get to the stories days or weeks, even months, before the mainstream media do. "
Blognotes: Hello, Mr. Kass, I'm told by others this is how it's done. 'Hat tip' to the Rogers Park Bench. Full John Kass diss here. Now, where are all those trolls that bitch about sourcing stories? I expect a lot of letter's to the Chicago Tribune editor.
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Ha. Ever wonder where the Chicago Tribune gets some of it's Rogers Park stories? Check this out.
Host Name: eye3.tribune.com
IP Address: 163.192.21.43
Date: 01/04/08
Time: 06:04 am cst
Country: United States
Region: Illinois
City: Chicago
ISP: Tribune Company
Returning Visits: 283
Chicago Tribune, snooping again.
Host Name: eye2.tribune.com
IP Address: 163.192.21.42
Date: 01/04/08
Time: 07:20 am cst
Country: United States
Region:: Illinois
City: Chicago
ISP: Tribune Company
Returning Visits: 164
Do you want people to read you or do you not?
Also, seriously, WHO GIVES A CRAP.
Some jackass keyed a car. Whoopy do. Can you go to Aruba and report on the Natalie Hollowell case next?
- David Terrell
dbt said...> "Can you go to Aruba and report on the Natalie Hollowell case next?"
David, Can you book and pay for my airfare and hotel stay, so I can leave Monday? I'll take a couple week investigation and report my findings. I'll even bring my expensive camera. Oh, and I need you to dog-sit Cota too.
If not, I'll keep covering this story. It's still got some legs.
CRAIG
YOU ARE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK-
DONT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE NEGATIVE COMENTS, THEY LIVE IN THEIR OWN SMALL WORLD-
Can you see if the Tribune was reading the blogs when the story FIRST broke in the blogs?
i'd be interested to see for sure when they found it.
Also, this story, while a LITTLE unusual, is such that it demands to be reported on right away. It isn't like a missing person or a death or an election, where there's a race to report results.
Keying someone's car isn't that big a deal, unless it's a celebrity. Then it would be instant news. Otherwise, it would need some research to get both sides of the story, and again, it ranks fairly low on priorities -- i doubt John Kass would devote most of his time on it.
Also, are there any Tribune employees who live in Rogers Park? (like HR employees, or circulation dept., etc.)
JP, the Stat-Counter IP address program only go back the last couple hours.
I can tell you every morning around 6 to 8 AM, these Tribune Eye IP addresses show up in the stats. Sun-Times Media Group, Pioneer Press, the AP, and quite a few news feeders as well. Just google Joe Moore, Rogers Park, DevCorp, or Jay Grodner on google. My site pops up on the first page.
Other IP address readers are City of Chicago, HUD, the IRS, the National Realtors Group, gee, all sorts of high profile government and big-time organizations and agencies read this blog.
Plus, I talked with a insider - and he told me Kass uses internet lurkers to cover the blogs and such for stories.
It's not just John Kass who hunts the internet to get his news stories. More and more regular people are turning to the internet now days too.
That's real bad news for the local daily newspapers.
I can see why more people are dropping print editions of their favorite journals. It feels wasteful to spend money on an internet connection and still continue to buy paper editions of the same things you can get much more cheaply, or at no additional cost at all, on the internet.
You can get all the content of the mainstream rags, and more, on the net for the price of your connection. You not only get the content of the NYTimes, the Trib, and most other papers in your region, but can access thousands of regional newspapers across the country. Additionally, you can get the Economist, American Prospect, Mother Jones, Business Week, Vanity Fair, Salon, Slate, and thousands of other periodicals, as well as thousands of academic papers and specialized journals, for the price of your connection. If you want more, you can buy the subscription to the online edition more cheaply than print and get more content in the deal.
Plus the millions of blogs that range from dipsy to brilliant, representing countless viewpoints you'll never hear from in the mainstream press.
So lots of people are deciding to get the good of their internet connections and save megatons of paper and print, plus all the quintillions of $$$$ in ink, paper,labor,and postage. sFigure your stand-alone internet cable from RCN is $23/month (at least mine is), and you also get everything else you use a computer in order to have, and you generate far less trash and don't have a stack of newsprint creating a massive fire hazard.
The savings in paper alone offsets the electricity used by getting online many times over, whether you figure an individual reader, or the costs involved in millions of print copies vs. the cost of running massive internet servers + all those home computers. Never mind the ink (and chemical pollution),the labour,and the fuel and labor in transporting the finished product.
I wonder if we will have anything printed but art magazines 10 years from now. I see the magazine becoming more and more an art object, to be bought to collect, rather than something disposable. The only print mags I buy are those of the type that you don't toss just after reading. I believe I'm rather typical these days.
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