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Nice try Herald
Posted by Drew Anderson in Drew's ViewsI'd just like to point out for the record that I don't go chasing down Herald stories to fill my pages.
According to Stephen Hunt in the Thursday, June 4 entertainment section, the dancing man (see the video here) was basically made famous by the Herald, sending all other local media outlets scurrying to catch up with the paper’s mighty investigative skills.
"Following the front-page article in the Herald on Wednesday... Colin Wynter arose to discover he'd become a media hot potato...." writes Hunt. “…Wynter received phone calls from Breakfast Television, Global, CBC and Fast Forward weekly [sic].” It says so right there in the paper, so it must be true.
Actually, I posted the video to fflog on Tuesday after seeing a link on twitter, and then went down to Ming and met Wynter face-to-face. We were going to make him our profile in Your Face Here. But, alas, such is the life of a weekly, the Herald beat us to the punch.
And then there’s the fact that the Herald dedicated a chunk of their seven pages of entertainment coverage to say how awesome they are. That’s a strange thing to fill space with. I could understand if they broke some in-depth story about corruption, or a sex scandal, or a horse that gave birth to a two-headed colt, or even if they won a prestigious award for any of those stories, but what the hell man? A dude dancing on youtube?
We're not featuring Wynter as our Face anymore, because the Herald put him on the front page. That's a far cry from sniffing after the Herald entertainment section.
So go nuts Herald, and blow your own horn. Just stop telling people that I was there to watch.
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Comments: 14
Vitamin D wrote:
on Jun 6th, 2009 at 10:51am Report Abuse
mahkwi wrote:
on Jun 7th, 2009 at 3:20am Report Abuse
Drew Anderson wrote:
Actually not desperate times in terms of content. The desperation comes from not being able to cover all the amazing things that are happening in this town. Too many great events etc... get passed over, through no fault of their own.
on Jun 7th, 2009 at 7:53pm Report Abuse
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on Sep 2nd, 2009 at 10:27pm Report Abuse
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Drew Anderson wrote:
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mahkwi wrote:
on Sep 3rd, 2009 at 6:42pm Report Abuse
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tinydoctor wrote:
What would you consider a "great" event, anyway?
on Sep 3rd, 2009 at 9:43pm Report Abuse
sickgrrll wrote:
on Sep 4th, 2009 at 2:43pm Report Abuse
dukedink wrote:
news, bad. festivals, boring. sarcasm, good.
on Sep 5th, 2009 at 11:22pm Report Abuse
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