Scooped — now 11 examples of OurGreenwich scooping the local daily
The main headline in Sunday’s Greenwich Time was “Promotion Freeze Impedes Police.” If you are a regular reader of OurGreenwich.com you would have known about that story about two weeks ago. Indeed we ran two columns on the story: “NOT a pretty picture. The local print media chose not to focus.” and “Judicial Passivism”. The recent decision in that case was also the subject of three posts on OurGreenwich before it was picked up by the local print media.
Several times in recent months, OurGreenwich.com, scooped the local daily.
There are stories the local daily hasn’t covered yet, such as who is the recently announced Grand Marshall of the St. Patrick’s Parade (local lawyer, James B. “Jim” Dougherty, President of the Wild Geese), or what the plans are for the Salute to Veterans or the Independence Day fireworks. A car rolling over on King was reported here, but did you see it in the local daily? When a MetroNorth train was on fire in Old Greenwich photos were posted here, but the story never appeared in Greenwich Time.
Again, when there was a rash of burglaries near the Merritt in Greenwich and a warning by police, the local daily ran its as its lead story on January 2, 2009. But that police warning and background on the burglaries appeared on the “front page” of OurGreenwich.com, days earlier (“BREAKING NEWS: GPD Warns Residents Along Merritt Corridor.”) on December 30, 2008.
OurGreenwich.com ran a story “BREAKING NEWS: Town sets up “warming centers” for approaching cold wave.” on January 14, a couple of days before Greenwich Time. Residents learned here first of the Town’s plans for public broadcast of the Obama Inaugural at OurGreenwich.com. Photos of our newest State Representative’s first day in Hartford were posted in OurGreenwich.com first.
We ran our exclusive on the beefed up traffic enforcement by Greenwich Police (“GPD Has New Weapons Against Speeders”) on October 18, 2008. Greenwich Time had it on its front page nearly 3-months later, January 13, 2009.
So if you REALLY want to know what is going on in Our Greenwich in a timely fashion read OurGreenwich.com, rather than waiting for the local daily to report it on ” Greenwich Time” time.