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Posted by Will Swaim in OC Register Death Watch

December 5, 2006 9:12 AM

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We hate to brag--no, we don't--but we'll point out an error in today's Reg. Reporter Jennifer Muir says the HB police have decided to "stop planting unloaded weapons, fake drugs and other props in unsuspecting civilians' cars . . . two days after the the practice was detailed in [wait for it!] The Orange County Register." In the interests of full reporting, we'll note that the Register's original story appeared weeks after the same story in another fishwrap, your OC Weekly. See R. Scott Moxley's story "Training Day" here.

 

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  1. Orange County Weekly - The Blotter » Gracias, LA Times; OC Register–Slag Off! says:
    December 6, 2006 10:12

    [...] Today, the Los Angeles Times reports on how Huntington Beach police will no longer plant evidence as a training exercise. Reporter H.G. Reza doesn't pretend to have broken the story–no, he credits nosotros with having first reported  the story, not the self-aggrandizing Orange County Register (read my jefe's post on the matter here). And lest ustedes non-journalists think we're overreacting in wanting credit for a story, consider this: the Register constantly slurs us as "irrelevant" to Orange County, as being controlled by "outside" owners, as not caring about the community. When the Reg tries to take credit for an important story and won't even print our name in its pages, it's not ignorance that governs the oversight: it's deliberation. They don't want their readers to know we're out there lest they defect to our paper. Pendejos.   [...]

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