Oh, well, they did try to snag me for that Penn & Teller show, so I suppose that’s recognition enough

Of course, we could have always just made up rumors about Bevo dating Bigfoot behind B** Boy’s back and probably done OK…

Rumors ?! Those were rumors ?

I simply can NOT understand why you didn’t LEAP at this opportunity!

Honestly, I don’t get the whole “work for free/byline credit” mentality that many publishers seem to have. While that works great for fanzines, the moment you are making any amount of money from content, and expecting contribution in any type of timely manner, it behooves you to compensate your contributors, even if just a little.

In my last print editorial job, with an unnamed independent college newspaper, I butted heads with my Publisher multiple times over payment for our contributors. She wanted me to solicit more free articles from kids trying to “build a résumé” or just happy to see their name in print. I wanted to make sure we could continue to receive content on a regular, timely basis by offering some (very slight) compensation to writers and photographers working on assignment (i.e. working on content we had made plans to run weeks in advance and needed to fill out our paper). Her desire for high turnover among our small group of paid writers/photographers so that she could skim free content eventually lead to my departure, and the inevitable failure of the paper as quality continued to decline.

Of course, we could have always just made up rumors about Bevo dating Bigfoot behind B** Boy’s back and probably done OK…

Their name and images, which were requested deleted, were removed. I stuck to the parameters of their own-titled “cease and desist” request.

The rest of my posting remains as my editorial comment on the whole affair.

I’ve since heard from two other websites that they tried to “hook” into giving content with false flattery.

Besides, what are they telling you to cease and desist from? Either they contacted you, or they didn’t. If they didn’t, then you’re lying and they have a libel/slander case against you. If they contacted you, then you’re telling the truth and reporting it. The truth is the ONLY defense against a libel/slander case.

Sounds like someone at {DELETED} didn’t like the coverage and ginned up an email to scare you off. Well, it didn’t really work. All you did was {DELETE} the name. Had they REALLY wanted to consider legal action, that would NEVER have been enough.

Silly reporters.

You all remember the Sarah “Palin bags a Bigfoot” story, right? Or the newer story about Sarah Palin being photographed for a magazine cover wearing a Bigfoot skin coat, that the unnamed tabloid says is “possibly the skin of the creature she shot last year.”