{"id":6336,"date":"2008-12-29T12:33:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T19:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2008-12-29T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T20:06:14","slug":"a-trolley-comes-to-phoenix-tendency-in-reporting-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/6336\/a-trolley-comes-to-phoenix-tendency-in-reporting-and-why-it-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"A trolley comes to Phoenix: Tendency in reporting and why it matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it’s almost five days since I dropped the dime on the bribe gifts being thrust upon the contributors to AG.<\/a> Has anyone publicly renounced them so far? We got to see Jay Thompson issue some tepid caveats about the gift products — from our<\/em> pages, not AG’s. And we got to watch in horror as Russell Shaw imploded, which wasn’t pretty. But if anyone has actually come out and said, “Get thee behind me, Satan!” — I’m not aware of it.<\/p>\n

Doesn’t much matter, by now. The moment is gone.<\/p>\n

You — meaning you, the invisible reader — will react as you choose, and that is not only your business, but it’s your perfect right. But I can give you a very simple lens for understanding the issue, one that not even the chorus line of tap-dancers who showed up in our comments could manage to gainsay:<\/p>\n

Suppose you are finally about to be interviewed by the real estate reporter from your local “City” magazine. Very big deal, very exciting, maybe your chance to break through to the target market you’ve spent a fortune trying to attract. But then you discover that the reporter has taken $2,000 in in-kind gifts from your fiercest competitor. How does that make you feel? Is it possible that the reporter is on the up and up and the gifts mean nothing? Well… yeahhhh… Is is plausible to you that you are about to be served up like a plate half full of cold leftovers? That’s<\/em> what’s running through your head, isn’t it? Taking expensive gifts from people you write about doesn’t mean you are necessarily corrupt, but it sure makes you look and smell corrupt.<\/p>\n

In our comments threads, there were a lot of specious arguments made in defense of taking these bribes, or at least not renouncing them. One of them was the notion that “everyone is biased.” This is a very common fallacious dodge — which is to say a persuasively invalid argument. We start by acknowledging the obvious facts that each of us has a unique point of view, and each of us is operating Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So it’s almost five days since I dropped the dime on the bribe gifts being thrust upon the contributors to AG. Has anyone publicly renounced them so far? We got to see Jay Thompson issue some tepid caveats about the gift products — from our pages, not AG’s. 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