I don’t know if you missed it, but DelawareLiberal has been mentioned in the News Journal twice in the past two weeks. Both times, we were trotted out to smack us around. The most egregious was the mention on Sunday about our recent change in personnel. The mention went out of its way to talk about little BS issues, rather than the things that really matter. For example, how hard would it have been to weave together the apparent unmasking of Kavips with the unmasking of a blogger by the courts earlier in the week? But instead, they would rather discuss stupid stuff.
The other mention seems trivial, but it is a little more insidious. Smitty saw it and pointed it out to us. The discussion of DL was that we were trading in baseless rumors. What was ignored was that the post in question went up at 6:25PM on August 6th. This was just minutes after we got the tip (it came in at 6:15). As the post was being typed, I was on the phone with the Coons administration to get confirmation. Coons’ office denied it outright and I let the team know that it had been denied. 21 minutes after the original post (and 30 minutes after the tip), we had updated the story and informed our readers.
Why misrepresent our reporting? How long does it take the News Journal to update their information? I just wonder if they are taking pot shots at us, or they just don’t understand how this series of tubes work?