Be vewy, vewy quiet … the Canucks are counting their beans.
That’s funny.
Apparently, when you’re a big media conglomerate, you pay twice for the same story.
The Whidbey News-Times and Whidbey Examiner, the “local” arms of the giant Evil Empire that has overtaken Whidbey Island — one Black Press, aka The Pride of Moosejaw — finally decided to report on breaking news this week. So, it was time to announce that David King had taken the job as girls’ basketball coach at Coupeville High School.
Which is nice, until you realize that the Examiner had already run a feature story on this way back on August 31, 2012 (http://www.whidbeyexaminer.com/sports/168181836.html), written by yours truly. It was my final story after a 15-year off-and-on run with the one true independent paper on the Island … before it got nice and non-independent.
It would have taken the bean counters in Saskatchewan about 1.3 seconds to look at their paper’s website to confirm this. But that would have meant they would have had to consider the actual, you know, history, of their publications.
Oh, and that part about paying twice for the same story?
I never got paid the first time around, so I guess we’re fine.
Coupeville Sports 