By Antonio D. French
Filed Wednesday, March 22 at 7:00 AM
Tom Finkel, editor of The Riverfront Times, called PUB DEF yesterday to apologize for an omission made in one of the paper's recent stories.
Last week, we called Finkel to complain that their story on the decision to move the Annie Malone Parade from north St. Louis to downtown ("Parade Charade" by Chad Garrison) clearly quotes comments from one of our exclusive videos without making mention of the source.
Finkel asked Garrison about his source and upon confirmation that it was indeed our video, Finkel apologized, saying that Garrison believed it was a public video. He said a link would be provided to the original video on the RFT's website.
We appreciate Finkel's quick response to this issue and take Garrison on his word that it was a simple mistake. Maybe they'll make us "Blog of the Week" one day soon to make up for it? To tell you the truth, we'd be just as fine with some free passes to one of their back section advertisers -- for our cousins, of course.
We would like to remind all of our readers that PUB DEF operates under a Creative Commons "Some Rights Reserved" policy. That means that all of you are completely free to copy, distribute and display our stuff -- as long as you give fair attribution (Click here to read the full license).
So fellow bloggers, journalists and activists, feel free to use our stuff -- stories, photos and videos (you can even add most of our videos to your own site via YouTube). Just please give us our props.
1 Comments:
The RFT has become such a rag. It's sad really.
5:24 PM, March 23, 2006
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