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One just has to smile at the New Times and its efforts to beat up on the Tribune for taking credit where it wasn't earned. Talk about the pot calling the kettle . . . .
Faithful readers will recall that back on January 10, I wrote a piece on Councilman Allen Settle's home in Arroyo Grande. You can find it below or click on the link in the last sentence. Two months later, the Shredder covered the issue as did Patrick Howe in a New Times article.
On Thursday, April 3, I took the opportunity to chide Howe for failing to give credit where credit is due, and a week later (Thursday, April 10), old Shred had the audacity to chide the Tribune for doing what Howe and Shred had done to me.
As the Shredder said, ". . . it doesn't hurt a bit to give a little credit where it's due." Gosh, I couldn't agree more. In fact, I said the same thing about New Times.
And to further drive the point home, the Shredder wrapped it up thus:
"This is a hell of a small place, and refusing to give credit--just like the big boys in the real media markets do--just makes you look dumb."
Who could possibly argue with that around here?
Shredder, are you and your side-kick, Mr. Howe, listening?
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Hi Jimmy,
This is Patrick Howe. I applaud your research on this, but I want to make it clear that folks had been openly asking questions about this issue for quite some time and we had done work on the the story well before your posting. Keep up the good work, but please don't make me out to be some kind of rat fink just because I also know how to access county property records information and Zillow. If you had wanted to follow Allen Settle home, talk to his neighbors and confront him with the resulting questions, you were free to do so, but you didn't. So please don't make it seem like I stole a story you broke.
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