Detective Comments

We've been taking out quite a few comments over the past day or so regarding the tragedy on the expressway. The gist of the deleted items is highlighted below. These are actual portions of comments that have been flushed to the Internet toilet in the sky:

• "half this information wouldn't be in the press if it wasn't for this website"
  
  
• "...time to shut the blog down...(leave) investigators and lawyers to find out on their own..."
  
  
• "...the only reason this story is coming to light is because it was mentioned on this site first."
  
  
• "god forbid Second City post your life story about all your issues"

Just to refresh the memories of these obviously deluded individuals, here's a timeline for them to look at:

• In the post title "Fuck!!!!!!" we had a six word post. No link. No reference to what happened. We figured that everyone would find out eventually. Most did.
• Due to an unfortunate happenstance that crops up often in our line of work, not a single comment went up on that post until after 10:00 PM that evening.
  
• We don't know the publishing schedule of the Sun Times, but we're pretty sure Frank Main wasn't hanging around waiting for our comments to go up. He had probably finished his article and the presses were running sometime before we started posting the 250 comment backlog.

So attempts to "blame the blog" for the Frank Main article the following day can be safely assumed to be people with an agenda. There just isn't any way for any of the information coming to light to have originated here.

Frank did what most reporters are supposed to do - investigated and found someone willing to talk - someone fed up with business-as-usual, separate rules for the politically heavy, "cover-up at all costs" mindset that has led to a clout-ridden department that can't get out of the way of its fuck-ups. They cover up time and time again for people who should be fired, jailed, or never hired in the first place, not to mention the promoting of people far beyond their actual job abilities.

Too bad Frank can't trace it back to the source of all evil - Shortshanks and the Machine.