Not getting scooped
Reporters hate to be scooped. I think they hate it even more if it merely looks like they were scooped, when in fact they weren't. I've known about a case for a good while now, and as far back as April 11, I referred to it as "that police/molestation/explosives story" in an e-mail. But I couldn't do much with it because there were no court papers to back up the allegations.Now a search warrant has been released, and I have it on good authority that my competition was sure I knew nothing about the whole case. And a big article about the subject ran in the competitor's paper today.
I won't berate people and detail all that transpired yesterday, because I never intended this weblog to be a place where I would gripe about people who could read it, but I will say that yesterday was very frustrating for me. I had someone almost yelling at me when I didn't use the word "alleged" IN CONVERSATION about this damn story. That's how the whole thing went as this story was being tossed about yesterday, and I won't be surprised if I'll soon be blasted for not beginning conversations with a proper lead detailing the five W's in 25 words or less. (I won't even go into pots calling kettles black.)
I'm not going to even link to the story because it makes me so mad. I just knew that story would be there when I looked at the competitor's paper today, and if I get to work today and am told to play catch-up, that will add insult to injury.
Posted by Layla at 7:44 AM, May 06, 2003
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