The NY Observer reported on the 28th that Zygi Wilf has purchased a new apartment on Park Ave in New York City for $19 million. Curbed also reported on it. As of now, no Minnesota newspaper has found this interesting enough to report (BringMeTheNews linked up the Observer piece), which seems strange considering that this [...]
As anyone who’s attempted to read comments on the StarTribune.com knows, things can get pretty ridiculous there. While they do seem to have improved a bit over the past year, something about the anonymity, lax moderation, or lack of quality filtering seems to bring out the worst in people there. Or, maybe it just discourages [...]
Back on Jan 15th, I accused Ryan Lyk of stealing a copyrighted photo from the Duluth News Tribune for use as a stock photo in a blog post he wrote. Ryan quickly removed the photo from that post. At that time, I also checked in with the Duluth News Tribune to verify whether they were [...]
I saw this earlier today on Minnesota Democrats Exposed and figured I’d give Andy Post and Ryan Lyk 12 hours or so to clean up this offensive MLK Day comment that was posted to their site. They have not: On The Deets, this comment wouldn’t fly because it’s racist, offensive, and off-topic (it appeared on [...]
One of the saddest forms of behavior I see from blog and newspaper comments is the use of different usernames depending on whether the person is willing to stand behind their comments at the time. On The Deets, all first-time commenter’s comments are held in moderation. This achieves three things: First, it prevents spam comments [...]
Yesterday, I called out both Ryan Lyk and Andy Post within the comments of MDE and here on The Deets for using copyrighted images from the Duluth News Tribune and Getty Images within their blog posts. On Andy Post’s post, where he used a photo from Getty Images that he found on The Telegraph, I [...]
Minnesota Democrats Exposed blogger, Andy Post, found an interesting way to get around paying Getty Images for a use of a photo they took of Keith Ellison in 2006. He stole if from The Telegraph. Here is the photo, as Andy Post published it to MDE: Notice the Telegraph citation? Like Ryan Lyk, Post does [...]
I thought this was an interesting citation to an image posted on Minnesota Democrats Exposed by Ryan Lyk: “Photo courtesy of Duluth New[s] Tribune”? Really? That sounds strange. I didn’t know that the Duluth News Tribune was in the business of giving away news content, including photos. One would think, at a minimum, that the [...]
Local news site, minnesota.cbslocal.com, ended up removing the hate speech they hosted for 5 hours, but in doing so, created a new problem that’s common among websites using reactionary comment moderation policies. Take a look at the comments now: The first comment is a pingback from TLD30.com, followed by my comment, and then the pingback [...]
Here is an example of the difference between the comment policies on The Deets vs. minnesota.cbslocal.com’s site: That is a comment from someone using KKK within their username threatening to kill a black man who’s a person of interest in two recent local robberies. Get it? Someone who is black is kind of, maybe, suspected [...]
