Dan Noyes vs. Matier & Ross

Buried at the bottom of Sunday's Matier & Ross column is a blurb detailing the lengths ABC 7's Dan Noyes has been going to try and get an interview with everyone’s favorite femme fatale, Ruby Tourk. In the blurb, there's a few mildly snarky comments about Dan trying once again to get Gavin and how he's trying to stir things up with the issue of Ruby's time off.

Somehow, Andy Ross got his hands on Dan's e-mails to Benefits Magazine head honcho Tim Gaskin and then contacted Dan to get a comment. Which Dan did and then to show he's got nothing to hide, posted his correspondences on his I-Team blog.

Why is this a story of interest? Because, well, it's looking like we have a little competition going between the two-biggest/baddest investigative teams in the city. Yes, it's an investigative team catfight.

Meow.

Now why would M&R write that little blurb? Andy Ross contacted Noyes a little later saying he just thought it was an interesting blurb because they like to write about "high-profile personalities" and Dan is one. And yes, Dan lays in the sales-pitch pretty thick, but essentially, M&R are making a somewhat big deal about Dan merely doing his job. We also highly doubt M&R are not laying the sales pitch pretty thick themselves in an attempt to get a sit-down with Ruby. After all, an interview with Mrs. Tourk is probably the biggest "get" a reporter in this town can get. Are M&R trying to brown-nose their way into Mrs. Tourk's heart? Is Tim Gaskin, the one who forwarded Dan's e-mails to M&R more of a Channel 5 fan? Or is it just some healthy competition between everyone?

Let the cat fur fly.