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Runaround Sue often claims that sbynews.com is a "news" site, claiming that he is Salisbury's most unbiased and reliable news source. But he is far from "unbiased" and "reliable". News sites don't publish pure rumor and speculation. News sites tend to confirm their sources. News sites tend to at least check out both sides of a story-- even if they only publish one side of it.
Runaround Sue does none of these things.
In one of his latest posts today, Runaround Sue repeats a rumor first posted over at www.thewatchdesk.com that the leadership of the Salisbury Fire Department -- namely Chief See and Deputy Chief Gordy-- have hired a private investigator to track down members and employees of the fire department who post at sbynews.com.
A normal person who doesn't need to spend his days fluffing his own ego and breaking his own arm patting himself on the back would immediately ask themselves "huh?"
Runaround Sue, of course, is not a normal person.
So, he fails to ask a few questions:
1) Should I believe everything written on the www.thewatchdesk.com, which can be notoriously negative toward the fire department leadership in any jurisdiction?
2) How could Chief See and Deputy Chief Gordy possibly add this type of encumbrance to the city budget without the approval of the city council? Wouldn't any such encumbrance be published in a budgetary line item somewhere?
3) Do Chief See and DC Gordy really give two craps about sbynews.com? After all, why not go after anyone posting at www.thewatchdesk.com, where the criticism is far more vicious on a per capita basis. After all, if it weren't for Maryland Judiciary Case Search, Runaround Sue wouldn't have a whole lot to post.
Just like the defamatory assertion that DC Gordy was threatening the jobs of firefighters who gave Runaround Sue information, the assertion that the leadership of the fire department would use a private investigator to track down firefighters reading Salisbury News is absurd on the face. Despite Runaround Sue's obvious paranoia, I can speak confidently that Bill Gordy could really give a crap what Runaround Sue thinks about him.
If Runaround Sue wants to ever regarded as real news site and not just some hick version of Page Six, he needs to do a little more investigative work and substantiate his reports more.
Unfortunately, his ego is inversely proportional to the size of his johnson, so that is quite unlikely.