Per usual, running behind. So, to catch up on this, a quick recap from yesterday:
As I said here, I stopped in at the Laconia Daily Sun after the Gunstock Area Commission to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker after his behavior at the GAC meeting.
Since no one answered my knocking at the door, having driven over, I returned home. So 10 minutes ago (9:20 pm at the time of this writing and processing the below video) I figured that I’d call and just leave a voice mail.
Surprise, surprise – someone fairly young answered the phone, which caught me off guard. After a fumbled “hello,” (and the voice confirmed “This is the Daily Sun”), I simply said, “I would like to file an ethics complaint against Jon Decker for his behavior at the GAC meeting.
Response: “That ain’t gonna happen, bucko.”
Challenge accepted. That’s a direct quote – did not have to record that conversation.
Challenge won. Yesterday, I went back to the LDS office and explained to the receptionist that I was there to lodge an Ethics Complaint against Jon Decker; I’d like to talk with Adam Hirshan Hart. While I was told he was out of the office yesterday, I did end up talking with the News Editor, Julie Hirshan.
A pleasant conversation and she said that when I came in, she had been watching the videos of the Gunstock Area Commission on the activities of Mr. Decker. She had been asked by Adam to look into it thus was not surprised. She said the review would continue and she gave me her business card.
Surprisingly and unexpected, I received a phone call from Adam Hirshan (Publisher) earlier this morning and we talked for almost a half hour about a number of things with it summed by this:
“Just the facts, ma’am to straight up reporting to advocacy reporting”
My words, not his. Now for the surprising thing. Adam has asked that GraniteGrok come in to have a conversation with staff about that transition. THAT was unexpected.
Make no doubt about it – we aren’t the typical journalists found in the Old Media. We are of the “blogosphere” and I characterize we Groksters as being political activists that happen to have a blogsite that punches well above it’s weight class (H/T: Greg Moore of Americans for Prosperity NH for that!). surprisingly, Hirshan seems to actually agreed with that, thus the invite.
Nothing is cast in concrete as to when and where as of yet – I’ll mull the offer over.
Interesting…
