June 05, 2011 10:09 PM UTC

Thoughts on the Hancock "June surprise"

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• by: JeffcoBlue

I’ve been reading the comments in response to the Hancock Denver Players story, as first reported by Complete Colorado and Westword, then on this blog Friday. The authors of Colorado Pols are big boys/girls, and can take care of themselves. I’ll be watching for their response. I would just like to point out that over at Westword, where this story was posted before Colorado Pols:

http://blogs.westword.com/late…

I don’t see any of you attacking Westword, there or here. Why all this condemnation for the Guvs, but none for the for profit media outlet who PUBLISHED THE STORY FIRST?

When I see everyone rushing to attack a blog while staying silent about the mainstream media outlet they quoted for the story, my first thought is that Hancock supporters are working the refs they think they can work over. And I’m sorry, that changes my view of your collective indignation.

As for the story itself, I don’t know that I would have quoted Complete Colorado, but Westword is another matter. I don’t have a dog in the Denver Mayor’s race, but smear campaigns still become newsworthy and that’s never going to change. If the Guvs had reported it as confirmed fact, that would be a problem, but they didn’t. They posted what Westword had written about Complete Colorado’s story, and called it a “big if.” I’ve seen it said that this story was shopped to everybody with no takers and that’s why it’s so late. I’d like to know if this is true?

Reagrdless, I personally think this story was not misrepresented by Pols or Westword, and they’re both entitled to their posts. If you don’t like the subject matter, or disagree, you should say that. But if your criticism is 100% for the Guvs and 0% for the media outlet who published the story first, something’s not right about that. Indeed, something is troll like and suspicious about that.