Crystal Nacht Boulder Daily Camera style

Wow, the Kirlin's story of the loss of land has really created a non-story. While I am tempted to say that the real story is the protesters, who instead of say, protesting the death of 3800 American soldiers in Iraq, with no end in sight, yell profanity at a former judge about 140 square fee of land? Are you kidding!!. Do you think they are really mad about the loss of land, or do they have an agenda? Couldn't these people say protest our lame recycling program. For god's sake, fewer people showed up at the prairie dog protest.

No, the real non-story is the ineptitude of the newspapers to cover this story properly. First, the paper is only covering the Kirlin's side of the story. The paper claims that the other side is not commenting because of the litigation. Well fine . . . but they f(*&ing testified about the case in open Court, their side of the story can be listened to in the transcript. Did the reporter listen to this transcript? No story mentions what the Court concluded, that the Kirin's lied. Lying in Court equals loosing your case. This is clearly discernible from the Court ruling, yet is conveniently ignored by everybody (except the Court's). Moreover, there are over 1000 lawyers in Boulder County. There is also a nationally ranked top 20 law school. Why no reporter asked anyone at CU about this case is beyond amateur reporting.

Second, the paper is missing the total looniness of the Kirin's supporters. There is some genuine anger here, which is completely disproportionate to what is going on. The protesters, both at the property and on the Camera's blog, almost universally yell "judicial corruption", which is of course, complete nonsense. Even the Kirin's haven't leveled that charge, and any serious person reviewing the case would see that this is not an issue, they would have to produce some evidence of it. The looney bloggers allegation of a prior relationship is pure speculation. Has the paper investigated this? No. Why don't they ask the Kirin's attorney, Bill Kowalski, whether judicial corruptions is an issue. Did Kowalski make a mostion to recuse the judge? These are real stories, again, ignored by the paper.

Finally, this is yet another story that was started by the Camera, when in all likelihood, it should have been ignored. Where is Sue Deans when we need her? The story only got teeth when anonymous bloggers started writing about the story in the stories comments section. Yet, your talking about a minuscule number of people who care. There is not scientific data that bloggers comments in anyway reflect community thought. Yet the Camera though its web page let the vigilante mob take over and create a story where none existed.

That the blogs are completely irrelevant to how the people of Boulder are feeling was proven by the election. Certain bloggers like David Thielin thought they were all the hot shit, but in the end, their values where not reflected in the election results. That is because bloggers are a self identifying group that use the Camera's blog to get attention, they have nothing better to do, and the Camera lets this mob think they are some sort of majority when in fact, it is very very very few people in Boulder that have any strong feelings on this story.

The Camera need this bs with allowing commentors run away with stories. Both Thielin and the Kirlin protesters are none entities in this town. Let them start their own newspapers, but don't allow the Camera to become a forum for the uniformed and ignorant.