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It's more that the real event was that Greg had actually run out there 
to try to prevent the tow truck from towing some of his patrons' cars, 
and had gotten into an altercation with the tow truck driver. All of 
which is actually pretty interesting, and might have made for a better 
post than what they actually posted. If you're gonna be a gossip blog, 
be a more *proactive* gossip blog, and chase down some juicy stories ;-)

The Big Boss thing, if I recall correctly, was a post in which they 
misheard some bit of news about the availability of certain Big Boss 
beers at Raleigh Times (perhaps they were cutting back on the selection 
of bottles, I don't remember now) and extrapolated that into a post 
claiming that Raleigh Times was pulling all Big Boss beers. Which wasn't 
true.

What typically happens is that people quickly comment to correct the 
inaccuracies, but I kinda feel like it's becoming a pattern. Just 
yesterday they posted a story titled "Matador to Release Whatever Brains 
7"" -- the actual *text* of the post got it right, talking about how 
Matador's distro has picked up the WB 7" for distribution. But the title 
was wrong, and conveyed a *very* different story.

So I posted a comment, and they changed it, but they didn't actually 
post anything to say "whoops!" -- they just changed it.

I understand that some folks will argue that part of the Web2.0 
revolution is the crowdsourcing of things like fact-checking & editing, 
but, uh, c'mon.

I don't really have anything against them -- it all seems very 
Inside-Raleigh and I don't really care much either way, since I find 
Raleigh to be pretty baffling at this point. But I *did* find it kind of 
funny that David had laid into Xopher for what was either a justifiable 
post of his own press release, *or* (at worst) a simple oversight, when 
New Raleigh is sort of notorious for similarly simple oversights.

My favorite Raleigh blog is Goodnight Raleigh, but it's not really a 
news source or anything. Good night photography, though. My *former* 
favorite Raleigh blog was, of course, rduwtf.com, but they seem to have 
again gone dark. Sigh.

Ross

Todd Morman wrote:
> Beer fetishization isn't my thing, so you'll have to fill me in on the Big 
> Boss episode (can't find it in their archive so maybe they deleted it). But 
> what was non-reality based about the "Greg Hatem Allegedly Struck by 
> Tow-truck" thread? I mean, I laughed that someone thought it was 
> post-worthy, even as gossip, but the snark in the comments covered that just 
> fine, and there were witnesses who saw the incident.
>
> In case anyone cares, my fave Raleigh-based blog right now is No Promise of 
> Safety.
>
> todd October was a good month http://nopromiseofsafety.com/2008/10/ morman
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