Comments on: Gas station robbed at gunpoint http://www.myballard.com/2009/08/31/gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/ News, events and restaurant guide for Seattle's Ballard neighborhood Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:14:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: NEIGHB0R http://www.myballard.com/2009/08/31/gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-8945 NEIGHB0R Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:40:34 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=10343#comment-8945 "kim1234": How exactly is that cheap journalism? Beat reporters have long had local sources that informed them of what was happening on the street. It's just that these beat reporters really no longer exist -- they were laid off years and years ago, because no one wants to buy a print ad next to a crime story or police blotter -- and the local informants have turned to the screaming match that is the Internet.<br><br>Further, when reporters had no local informants available, they often relied on arrest reports that sometimes were posted on the precinct door in some towns. But because of cutbacks, the folks who used to put those arrest reports on the door also aren't around. And it's not as though our local law-enforcement officials are necessarily eager to promote crimes and investigations on their own. “kim1234″: How exactly is that cheap journalism? Beat reporters have long had local sources that informed them of what was happening on the street. It's just that these beat reporters really no longer exist — they were laid off years and years ago, because no one wants to buy a print ad next to a crime story or police blotter — and the local informants have turned to the screaming match that is the Internet.

Further, when reporters had no local informants available, they often relied on arrest reports that sometimes were posted on the precinct door in some towns. But because of cutbacks, the folks who used to put those arrest reports on the door also aren't around. And it's not as though our local law-enforcement officials are necessarily eager to promote crimes and investigations on their own.

]]> By: kim1234 http://www.myballard.com/2009/08/31/gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-8944 kim1234 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:00:18 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=10343#comment-8944 norabell,<br><br>that's why the times wants to collaborate w/my ballard. so they can be sleeping too. cheap journalism. (no offense to the geeky swedes). norabell,

that's why the times wants to collaborate w/my ballard. so they can be sleeping too. cheap journalism. (no offense to the geeky swedes).

]]> By: NoraBell http://www.myballard.com/2009/08/31/gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-8943 NoraBell Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:39:30 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=10343#comment-8943 Me too. Once again, Silver (and Louie) fends off ignorance. I haven't looked yet, but I doubt the Times or P-I has this story. Me too. Once again, Silver (and Louie) fends off ignorance. I haven't looked yet, but I doubt the Times or P-I has this story.

]]> By: boardbrown http://www.myballard.com/2009/08/31/gas-station-robbed-at-gunpoint/comment-page-1/#comment-8942 boardbrown Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:28:46 +0000 http://www.myballard.com/?p=10343#comment-8942 Silver: our dedicated watchdog. Hats off to you and Louie! I was sleeping my ass off at 2am. Silver: our dedicated watchdog. Hats off to you and Louie! I was sleeping my ass off at 2am.

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