Seems OB Ragsters are getting quoted everywhere these days. Doug Porter was quoted by the San Diego U-T just this past Sunday on why their former comment policy turned people off – particularly newbies to town.
And today, we are overjoyed to announce that our own Anna Daniels was quoted yesterday in a Washington Post article. The frame of the article was why former Bush Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield cancelled his subscription to the New York Times (due to a righteous column by one of our faves, Paul Krugman).
So, Anna is quoted on why she cancelled her subscription a while back to the San Diego Union Tribune. Here’s the quote (Karen Winner was formerly one of the main editors):
In 2009, Anna Daniels declared on the OB Rag why she was cancelling her subscription to the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Dear Karin Winner, Editor:
Ms. Winner, I just canceled my 15+ year subscription to the Union-Tribune. I asked to speak to a supervisor who would convey my reason for doing so to the appropriate individuals within the company. The reason I gave to Hector was the U-T’s recent decision to publish all City employee names and salary information on signonsandiego.com.
This was a U-T decision that did not sit well with Anna, as at the time, she was a City of San Diego employee (a librarian). At least Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple mentioned the OB Rag, and provided a link in his article. The U-T had mentioned Doug Porter in theirs as “a blogger” but failed to describe which blog he wrote for.
(Just for the record, the OB Rag is no longer a blog; we are now a full-fledged website.)
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Anna, the OBRag’s “about us” page references “this blog” four times, including the very first two words… (the page does call it a website two times)…
http://obrag.org/?page_id=2
It might be time to update that, to reflect the evolution…
Ricky, right you are. It is time to update. So much to update, so little time.
Websites, blogs, news media, whatever…the format should not determine whether to attribute a source. When attribution to stories on blogs is deliberately vague, it’s hard to see any other reason than arrogance and disrespect–which is a reflection on the character of the organization that uses the source material.
Right on George!
At this time I’m on the “world wide web”, and I also am on this site…
I’m on my butt reading the OBRag.