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June 18, 2007
Monday Miscellany
One of the premiere alt weekly writers on the planet, Tara Servatius, now has a blog. Check it out. Tara writes for Creative Loafing in Charlotte, and also hosts a talk show five nights a week at WBT.
Riverbend is over. Despite the fact that its lineup failed to fully jazz an intense music snob like myself, I have to say that $37 wasn't a bad deal for a pin that you could've used to attend each night of the festival if you'd wanted to. We're still wading through the aftermath and some ongoing discussions around the structure and purpose of Riverbend itself, but as for the talent on hand this year, it was worth the money.
In addition to attempting to convince our advertisers to boycott our paper, folks that are unhappy with what we print will sometimes go around town grabbing up any and all copies of our paper that they can get their hands on. This practice of theft (and, yes, it is theft) is supposed to, I suppose, keep people from reading something "bad," "wrong," or "damaging" that we've written about them or someone they know. This has happened on at least two occasions in our close to four years in business and, reportedly, happened again recently. In all cases, including the most recent one, we've stood by the stories the thieves took issue (and issues) with (and containing).
Though we'd love to catch and prosecute the offenders in these cases, it's a bit hard to do so. More importantly, however, the thieves' actions are just plain stupid. Our Web traffic is always increasing, and unless the thieves can steal all of the copies of the Internet that are floating around, our work will be read. Plus, big bunches of papers missing from our racks is good for our circulation numbers, helps bring in advertising revenue, and lets us hire more writers that'll undoubtedly write more stories that certain folks won't want other folks to see. If people don't want the light of truth to shine on their corruption, they should, oh, I dunno, stop being corrupt. How about that?
BILLets | By colrus | 11:37 PM
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