Who is ripping off whom? The Fresno Bee or The Fresno Undercurrent? - By N.L. Belardes
Just stumbled onto an interesting conversation titled, "Mike Oz vs. eavesdroppers." Just when you thought Fresno Famous and Modesto Famous were all the debacle, in comes a miffed Fresno Bee reporter who admits the Bee is ripping off the Fresno Undercurrent. Apparently the Bee is starting their own little niche market free paper modeled after the Undercurrent. Of course, the same reporter is leaking info onto myspace saying the Undercurrent got it all wrong. But why leak info onto the Internet?
Is the Fresno Bee going to try to destroy the Undercurrent? Or is this just healthy competition?
Maybe not, but it sure seems like in today's age journalists should understand that every word on the Internet practically becomes public information. Anyway, read the drama for yourself and you decide who is ripping off whom.
Is the Fresno Bee going to try to destroy the Undercurrent? Or is this just healthy competition?
Maybe not, but it sure seems like in today's age journalists should understand that every word on the Internet practically becomes public information. Anyway, read the drama for yourself and you decide who is ripping off whom.
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This entry was posted by N.L. Belardes, on
Sunday, March 04, 2007.
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Those people need to learn how to argue a little bit more interesting. I didn't see any bad words, death threats, or "non-death threats" anywhere in those blog posts. And it ended rather politely. They need lessons from a few Bakersfield peeps.
i agree with norma! what kind of drama is that?! bad marketing...
who cares who's copying whom?! it's a big world and journalism is a dog-eat-dog kinda place...
if they're going to argue about this stuff, forget about being nice... have an all-out war... it's what keeps readers coming back.
I'm sorry I didn't run with it, but I saw no need to. It is not Mike I have a problem with it is the Bee. Mike doesn't represent the Bee, if he wants to defend them, so be it. The Bee failed miserably with Get Out, we'll see what happens with their new attempt to fool people into thinking that they care about anything more than the bottom line, and that they are part of the community. The McClatchy Company with their chain newspapers are as much a part of the community as any one of the many Targets, Wal Marts, or Starbucks here in Fresno. Having a location somewhere does not being local make.
The Bee is tired and stale all the bells and whistles are not going to change that. They will never admit it, but it must irk them to no end that we are doing pretty well at something they failed miserably at. In any case this was a fight not worth taking up. Sorry to disappoint.
I think The Undercurrent did fine by posting a comment on the matter. They had their say, and then Bee rep had his say... on myspace.com.
An interesting place for journalistic comments... Is he saying that the Undercurrent only merited a response buried on myspace?
Maybe I read too much between the lines.
I think newspaper wars should be on the front page, not buried.
cdf .. I was actually being sarcastic. N.L. Belardes has had some people come in here (yes in his own blog) and blast him and call him names from asshole to well.. I won't even go there... And he's been threatened in a supposedly "non threatening" way from people/publications that don't agree with him. Or that he doesn't agree with. It was sorta a joke intended towards those people. You handled yourself the way any classy, articulate, NORMAL non psychotic person should.
*cue applause here... and a standing ovation to you!
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