SFist: Did You Ride the 33 Outbound Yesterday Afternoon?

omar

Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:17:41 -0800

his crusade on muni drivers is pretty silly. what's next? lazy trash workers that don't pick up compost? isn't there, just south of SF, a billion dollar international industry populated with arrogant rising stars and dangerous old monarchs? why not investigative reports on suspected industrial espionage and dirty machiavellian alliances? mraaa-ha-HA!! what the hell television! no wonder i dont watch the news...i hate that show.

hillarys_quivering_lip

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:57:03 -0800

> The luddites lost /runs you over with horse-drawn carriage. HA! HA! HA!

dantsea

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:22:00 -0800

Ah, so if one has to put down one's drink or one's... other vice... then it's not really news? I like this approach.

Generic

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:16:08 -0800

really though ... Twitter, hashtags, network effects, liveblogging, hasn't this argument already been settled? The luddites lost.

Generic

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:13:48 -0800

FTW.

dantsea

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:03:15 -0800

Oh! Speaking of twitter and reporters, here's a National Post reporter going off on a PR flack... using Twitter. Screeech!

wsanders

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:17:56 -0800

My wife is in the biz and everybody tweets. Infactactually some ABC7 people told her a few weeks ago "if you want us to read your press release, tweet it."

SFJoe

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:11:54 -0800

"...showing how dangerous SF's public transit can be." The rule of thumb is that the more over-the-top the teaser is, the less newsworthy the actual story. Go ahead and watch it tonight but don't say I didn't tell you so when you say, "big, fat hairy deal" after.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:46:35 -0800

Thnaks. And no offense to any other media outlets out there, but KGO/ABC7 got a good jumpstart on reaching out the local bloggers and the whole world wide web thing.

travin

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:45:45 -0800

I bet at least one of them was wearing an AA tshirt.

RollingJ415

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:44:02 -0800

You know, I think ABC7/Dan Noyes deserve a heap of credit. Ok, using the Internet to find people who can give a first-hand account of something that happens everyday but most of us just suffer in silence--um, the problem is? Maybe the driver is a serial passenger-berater, or maybe the driver was exemplary in handling a passenger who was bothering everyone else. Both happen all the time, and they make a big difference in our daily life, so, huzzah Mr. Noyes, and, huzzah SFist for using your power and wide reach for good.

hillarys_quivering_lip

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:44:02 -0800

Obviously a heated American Apparel debate got a bit out of hand.

fizzandpop

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:43:13 -0800

Yes it does. And it also involves freckled-faced boys with overly large caps shouting "Extra! Extra! Read all about it! on street corners, next to fire hydrants, with other kids playing stickball in the background. And the young wives of newspaper barons buying enormous hats at department stores, that's also a major part of the newsbiz that forms in my mind when I close my eyes.

periqueblend

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:41:51 -0800

I could be overreacting, but tweeting the entire world in order to prove your thesis seems more like making the news, and not merely reporting it.

travin

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:38:51 -0800

In this town it's all about the Appletinis

mattymatt

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:36:00 -0800

Doing it between sips is for amateurs.

dantsea

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:34:13 -0800

That's because everyone knows you do it in between sips of Midori margaritas.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:32:14 -0800

gathering news doesn't mean you scream "scoop!" while wearing a press ticket in the brim of your hat in between sips of aged scotch. very fetishistic of you.

brittney

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:29:23 -0800

"this fails as news gathering, journalism, and public interest" Seems like using new tools to do a faster, more thorough job. Perhaps you could elaborate.

periqueblend

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:26:50 -0800

wow that metaphor is tortured! is it reporters or twitter that is the monster? I believe the real scare monger is Dan Noyes whose previous tweet is "Dan is on the air at 6:30 tonight, showing how dangerous SF's public transit can be." this fails as news gathering, journalism, and public interest.

Beth Spotswood

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:17:20 -0800

That's the kind of unnecessarily cynical nonsense that makes commenters seem like paranoid, torch-carrying, anonymous villagers. Relax. The man's trying to find someone who rode a bus by using the internet. DUH.

Brock Keeling

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:07:35 -0800

what

travin

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:04:44 -0800

Hmmmm. Well now I'm glad I decided not to take the outbound 33 about this same time yesterday. Wonder what happened.

periqueblend

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:59:05 -0800

finally a use for twitter! doing reporter's jobs for them!