We wuz robbed!

by CalWatchdog Staff | January 26, 2010 4:08 pm

There’s an old rule in journalism that says always credit your sources. I think they still teach it in Journalism School. Anyway, someone ought to school Sacramento Bee blogger Torey Van Oot in this practice.

I’m referring to this Capitol Alert blog entry[1], posted at 10:41 on the morning of Tuesday, Jan. 26: “Steinberg looks to rename LOB after Dem strategist Bill Cavala.” It’s a short post that does little more than quote from Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg’s Jan. 11 resolution to name the Legislative Office Building after long-time Democratic strategist William L. Cavala. For most readers, it would appear that Van Oot is the first person to report this little tidbit.

Wrong!

Here’s CalWatchdog’s original, Jan. 25 blog post[2] on the subject. Now to be fair, it’s certainly possible that Van Oot independently discovered the two-week-old resolution a day after we did, and never once encountered our own reporting.

Van Oot could have at least advanced the story a bit…

-Anthony Pignataro

Source URL: https://calwatchdog.com/2010/01/26/we-wuz-robbed/

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