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Let me set the record straight about my publication Daily News Bin
Hi, Im Bill Palmer. Im the creator, publisher and owner of Daily News Bin. Ive been an indie journalist for about thirteen years, covering various other fields. I started this site last year and decided to try my hand at political reporting because I couldnt stand one more day of the false and misleading narratives I kept hearing on cable news, and I decided to fight back. Ive had the good fortune to find a rather large audience, and a number of people I respect have told me (publicly and privately) that they appreciate my willingness to aim straight for the truth. But its also brought some bizarre false claims out of the woodwork by those who dont care for the truth. So I want to clear up every bit of malarkey thats been put into circulation about me and Daily News Bin over the past nine months.
Ive quickly learned that the trouble with reporting on an election from a factual place is that those whose preferred candidates arent doing well are going to blame the messenger. In the instance of some of these individuals, theyll spread the most ridiculous coordinated lies about you and your publication in the hopes of scaring people away from reading it. When youre a new publication, the bystanders who hear these crazy claims are left unsure what to think. I would prefer to ignore this kind of nonsense, but I tried that approach early on and found that when up against this level of false noise, I have no choice but to persistently fight back. So if youre here for that reason, lets shoot down the nonsense point by point:
No, were not a satire or fake news site
For the first few months of our existence, when cable news was routinely reporting state polls as if they were national polls to try to make certain races look more close than they were, we focused on pushing the real poll numbers out there daily. This offended the fans of a certain losing candidate so thoroughly that they took to social media and told everyone who would listen that we were satire or fake news. They felt that if they could trick enough people into believing it, anything we put in a headline would be ignored. Before long I made a point of publicly pushing back against this lie, so they moved onto the next one.
We are not owned or funded by anyone
Last fall, these same rather dedicated individuals moved on to their new coordinated lie about us: that were secretly being operated or funded by a candidate, campaign, party, or SuperPAC in this election. Anyone whos taken a look at our rather scrappy looking site can figure out that were not funded by anyone and anyone familiar with how indie news sites operate knows that they dont need external support to begin with. Still, this has become the de facto false claim about us on the part of anyone who resents that were reporting on how poorly their preferred candidate is doing.
Hi, Im Bill Palmer. Im the creator, publisher and owner of Daily News Bin. Ive been an indie journalist for about thirteen years, covering various other fields. I started this site last year and decided to try my hand at political reporting because I couldnt stand one more day of the false and misleading narratives I kept hearing on cable news, and I decided to fight back. Ive had the good fortune to find a rather large audience, and a number of people I respect have told me (publicly and privately) that they appreciate my willingness to aim straight for the truth. But its also brought some bizarre false claims out of the woodwork by those who dont care for the truth. So I want to clear up every bit of malarkey thats been put into circulation about me and Daily News Bin over the past nine months.
Ive quickly learned that the trouble with reporting on an election from a factual place is that those whose preferred candidates arent doing well are going to blame the messenger. In the instance of some of these individuals, theyll spread the most ridiculous coordinated lies about you and your publication in the hopes of scaring people away from reading it. When youre a new publication, the bystanders who hear these crazy claims are left unsure what to think. I would prefer to ignore this kind of nonsense, but I tried that approach early on and found that when up against this level of false noise, I have no choice but to persistently fight back. So if youre here for that reason, lets shoot down the nonsense point by point:
No, were not a satire or fake news site
For the first few months of our existence, when cable news was routinely reporting state polls as if they were national polls to try to make certain races look more close than they were, we focused on pushing the real poll numbers out there daily. This offended the fans of a certain losing candidate so thoroughly that they took to social media and told everyone who would listen that we were satire or fake news. They felt that if they could trick enough people into believing it, anything we put in a headline would be ignored. Before long I made a point of publicly pushing back against this lie, so they moved onto the next one.
We are not owned or funded by anyone
Last fall, these same rather dedicated individuals moved on to their new coordinated lie about us: that were secretly being operated or funded by a candidate, campaign, party, or SuperPAC in this election. Anyone whos taken a look at our rather scrappy looking site can figure out that were not funded by anyone and anyone familiar with how indie news sites operate knows that they dont need external support to begin with. Still, this has become the de facto false claim about us on the part of anyone who resents that were reporting on how poorly their preferred candidate is doing.
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/opinion/setting-the-record-straight-about-my-publication-daily-news-bin/24384/
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Just sayin... (Original Post)
ismnotwasm
Apr 2016
OP
Daily News Bin is in better company under the Bernie Bus with the rest of us.
CalvinballPro
Apr 2016
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livetohike
(22,163 posts)1. Interesting! Thanks for posting this.
CalvinballPro
(1,019 posts)2. Daily News Bin is in better company under the Bernie Bus with the rest of us.
It's a very well-written response to their haters.
brer cat
(24,605 posts)3. Thanks for sharing, ism.
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