Nov 24, 2013 Toledo Blade story about YouTube videos covering Toledo

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2013/11/24/EconCat88-Trashing-Toledo-one-negative-video-at-a-time.html

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/165733/24Nov2013/Positive_Toledo_Videos_Online_Anyone

What the hell. This is worthy of a front page posting on the Sunday edition of the Blade's website???

I like the dramatic sub-headline on the story page.

"Anonymous critic hides in shadows of Internet"

Is that similar to anonymous critics hiding in the shadows of newspaper editorials?

From the Blade story:

It’s unknown what impact videos such as EconCat88’s will have on the city’s economic development efforts, ...

No impact.

People with the money to build or invest will not base their decision solely on a YouTube video search.

By the way, the number 2 video in the Y

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"That is a good reason to interview EconCat88 and get his story out."

EconCat88 is getting his "story" out. It's called the Internet. What else is needed? Since when is the official "story" only told by the so-called professional media?

Even today, old media orgs still dislike the fact that they are no longer gatekeepers of the information that gets disseminated to the public.

Fortunately for everyone else, the Internet makes it easy to tell a story. And everyone may have a different version of the story. So what? It's up the consumer to filter through it all. You can also ignore it.

From the Blade's story :

Anonymous critic hides in shadows of Internet

Shadows? Pretty dramatic.

Is that similar to the critics who hide in the shadows of newspaper editorials?

It must be a slow news period because it seems odd that this is worthy of a front page posting on the Sunday edition of the Blade's website.

From the Blade story:

It’s unknown what impact videos such as EconCat88’s will have on the city’s economic development efforts, ...

Oh, come on. It's beyond stupid that anyone would be worried about someone's art on YouTube.

The impact is none. People with the money to build or invest will not base their decision solely on a YouTube video search whether the videos are negative or positive.

Forget what EconCat88 has done. This becoming a local media story is what makes Toledo looks silly.

Blade:

There’s not much Toledo officials can do about EconCat88’s videos. It’s free speech, and he has the right to post videos, no matter how biased.

Why was that mentioned? Have Toledo officials been secretly hatching a plan to take down EconCat88? Why would Toledo officials waste their time thinking about YouTube videos?

The low temperature this morning at Toledo Express Airport was 12 degrees. 12. The normal low temp for this day is 30 degrees. The frigging weather is a bigger negative than frigging YouTube videos. Complaining about both is senseless.