What me steal?
As The Orange County Register sinks deeper in economic distress I have to wonder what is taking so long for this rotten scow to go under.
Today a Register hackling named Lou Ponsi – who used to report Pop Warner football game scores – wrote a story about the Fullerton cop iPad theft story that FFFF broke the other day. This creep actually availed himself of documents that we posted to make it look like he had done some real reporting.
The funniest part is how Ponsi reports:
“She had seen the iPad in the bin and placed her bag of check in over it and walked away with it,” the report stated.
A bag of “check in?” What the Hell is that?!
Read the rest of “The Ponsi Scheme: One Good Theft Deserves Another”
Bush – this seems to be the trend.
It’s commonplace for the OCR hacks to steal from the OC WEEKLY and report on it as thier own.
Equally disturbing are the other blogs “rebroadcasting” noise instead of doing any real hard hitting writing.
To be blunt, The LOC seems like an extension of the voice of OC(ea), and Red County has become an extension of Ed Royce’s website as well as the OC Register.
Luckliy there are a couple of outlets left that do some hard hitting interesting stuff.
Just sat down and figured out how much I am paying to have the Register delivered to my home 7 days a week. Comes out to almost $400 a year! Given their increased costs and shrinking content, I am going to reconsider my subscripion when it next comes up.
BAW. There is no way that you are paying close to $400 a year.
Unless you live in Alaska and its sent via priority mail every day
I stop getting the daily and went to the 4 day version, then stopped all together.
Now I get all the OCR I need from their web site, and on Sundays I walk to “The Rag” on Broadway and 4th to pick up a hard copy and support one my local retailers.
And its more healthy for me too.
Larry, the bill is $ 93.30 for 13 weeks. If you add a bit for the carrier, that makes it $ 100 for 13 weeks, or 3 months. You do the math. And it is thrown on my sidewalk early every morning, not priority mail or anything like that. Back in January 13 weeks was $ 73,10, so apparently there has been a major boost in their charges. The shortest subscription period on the invoice back then was 5 weeks at $ 30.94, which compuoted then to about $ 310 per year. If you can get me a better deal, I am interested!
BAW. We get the Register delivered every day. Our bill, paid annually, is around $150