More On Correa Lock-Out

Here's the OC Register story by Brian Joseph on Sen. President Pro Tem Don Perata's tyrannical, peurile actor locking Lou Correa out of his Capitol office:

SACRAMENTO -- Senate Leader Don Perata locked Orange County Sen. Lou Correa and two other Senate Democrats out of their Capitol offices Monday, apparently to punish them for attending a fundraiser for pro-business, moderate Democrats.

"This morning, I kissed my children goodbye, dropped my daughter off at school, got on a plane, got here, found out I was locked out of my office," said Correa, D-Santa Ana.

Perata, D-Oakland, declined to discuss the matter with reporters, saying it was an internal matter. But the Capitol buzz, including an Internet posting by Orange County Republican Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, said Correa and Sens. Ron Calderon and Gloria Negrette McLeod were shut out because they attended an event for moderate Democrats last week.

You can read the whole article here.

An aside: we on the blogosphere have no problem explcitly referring to MSM stories and giving them credit and hat-tips where they are due -- but the MSM seem loath to return the favor. See the third paragraph from the Brian Joseph story, for example. Chuck DeVore apparently didn't post about this story on Red County/OC Blog: he just made "an Internet posting"  -- as if the Internet is this thing out there where one can post stuff. (I exempt Total Buzz from this criticism, but being a blog they function according to blogosphere etiquette).

Comments

[Christopher Columbus]

FlashReport was there before both Total Buzz and DeVore! Where's the etiquette in any of this?

[Christopher Columbus]

Sorry, I meant Orange Punch, which DeVore cites, not Total Buzz.

[Steven Greenhut]

Jubal: I'm in the MSM and I routinely attribute things to blogs, including this one. It's odd that you would complain that the Register, though, didn't attribute the DeVore quote to OCBlog, when Chuck learned about it from my post on Orange Punch. I learned about it from Capitol Weekly in Sacramento. See how hard this attribution thing is in the Internet world?

[Jubal]

Steve:

I don't think of you as MSM since you're an editorial writer, rather than as a straight print reporter -- but point taken.

But how hard is it to write "a posting by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on Red County/OC Blog" as opposed to "an Internet posting by Assemblyman Chuck DeVore"? And Chuck had no difficulty giving attribution to you -- it's not that hard.