I have a pretty much boundless contempt for the Arizona Republic<\/i>. The paper’s real estate coverage is eclipsed in its stupidity only by its insipidity. There is no conceivable issue upon which ASU’s Jay Butler is not the absolute authority, and there is never an occasion when the news, no matter how good, could not be worse. I’m utterly amazed that they let me write for them — albeit, not very much — and I await that “Goodbye Look” phone call in my every waking minute. In fact, I think I deserve 1,500 words on the front page of the business section every Sunday, but that would require a different Republic<\/i> — or perhaps an alternate universe.<\/p>\n
But today comes vindication, yes?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Glen Creno wrote a report on “Valley realty bloggers”<\/a> and managed to omit any mention of Phoenix-area real estate webloggers. No Jay. No Jonathan. No Greg. No Russell. Here’s the really fun part: Of the “Valley realty bloggers” he does<\/i> mention, only two are actually in<\/i> the Phoenix area.<\/p>\n Who’s in the article?<\/p>\n Who’s not<\/i> in the article? Their names are legion<\/a>.<\/p>\n Is that link clear? Webloggers are constantly derided and diminished by mainstream media reporters who can’t do the simplest research.<\/p>\n The fact is, I don’t care. We’re talking to people who are paying attention<\/i>. If the hometown paper were<\/i> to discover what is going on under its nose in the epicenter of real estate weblogging<\/a>, I would lay awake nights wondering what we had done wrong…<\/p>\n More:<\/i><\/b> Jonathan Dalton<\/a>, Jay Thompson<\/a>. Technorati Tags: arizona<\/a>, arizona real estate<\/a>, blogging<\/a>, phoenix<\/a>, phoenix real estate<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have a pretty much boundless contempt for the Arizona Republic. The paper’s real estate coverage is eclipsed in its stupidity only by its insipidity. There is no conceivable issue upon which ASU’s Jay Butler is not the absolute authority, and there is never an occasion when the news, no matter how good, could not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/480\/smaller-lot-sizes-it-lets-the-builder-provide-a-finished-home-at-a-lower-overall-cost\/","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":0},"title":"Smaller lot sizes: “It lets the builder provide a finished home at a lower overall cost.”","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning brings a very thorough story by Betty Beard in the Arizona Republic about shrinking lot sizes. 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But I am older, by now, and wiser, and sick to death of picking on Catherine\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Marketing"","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":337,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/337\/here-are-some-blogs-that-stay-on-top-of-real-estate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1535,"position":4},"title":"Here are some blogs that stay on top of real estate","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This is me from today's Arizona Republic (permanent link). I wish I could deliver an SEO boost to the weblogs mentioned here, but I doubt that will happen. First, the paper didn't create links for the web-based version of this story. 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