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Tom Quinn over at Worcester Magazine wrote an interesting article today about the changing landscape of media in Worcester. It’s long, but it’s a good read. And obviously you can’t have a conversation about media in Worcester without talking about the Turtle. One of the people he interviews is Noah Bombard from Masslive, who was clearly suffering from post-traumatic Turtle-induced butthurt:

Now, Bombard said, blogs like Turtleboy Sports just “want to watch the world burn.”

Turtleboy has become something of a social media sensation. Sometimes cutting, pasting and screen-shotting material from Twitter, Facebook and other sources, and combining it with an often-twisted and controversial personal viewpoint, the blog has generated thousands of followers on its website and Facebook page. The blog has indicated it does not speak with any media representative in the city other than reporter Pat Sargent from the Worcester Sun.

“There are sensational stories, there are outrageous stories, and as journalists it’s our job to convey that,” Bombard said. “But when you flip that on its head and everything you do is sensationalized, everything you do is cliche, everyone you write about you plug into some sort of formula, that’s not journalism. That’s propaganda, that’s bashing – the common mantra of journalists is ‘afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.’ And I fear too often there are websites and blogs that do the opposite.”

LOL. How mad are these people? Don’t they understand what a bad look this is for them? “That’s not journalism?” Never heard that one before.

In his defense, Masslive is a million times more legitimate as a “journalistic” outlet than the Telegram. Go to their Facebook page. They report the news there and they do a pretty good job of it. Unlike the Telegram and Gazette, who gets the vast amount of their views by paying Spanky McFarlane to write outrageous racist things, and then brings back Old Balls from the dead when the views go down.

Anyway, I get why Noah Bombard is mad. He’s been in journalism his entire career and he’s getting destroyed in the ratings by a boy on a turtle. Our backup Facebook page has 11,000 likes, which is 4,000 more than Masslive’s primary page. Our primary page of course is coming up on 26,000 followers. We’re not even really in the same stratosphere.

But our biggest beef with what he said is that we want to watch the world burn. He is referencing this blog, which we wrote about Masslive in January. Basically they listed the names of 13 hookers who got arrested in a sting, and it got Dick Poole and all the other butthurts all riled up:

We had no problem with Masslive printing their names, and we pointed out how this is what gets people to click on their articles, and at the end of the day, this is what pays the bills. Here’s the paragraph:

All the media does is supply a demand. People wanna watch the world burn. We don’t wanna click on articles about the local girl scouts who are raising money for the animal shelter. People wanna find out which person from their high school ended up being a Main South prostitute. This is all that matters to us.

So yea, when we said that people just want to watch the world burn, we were referencing your “journalism” Noah. Not ours. We don’t print lists of hookers on Turtleboy Sports because quite frankly we don’t have the time for it. Anyone can publicly humiliate some hookers. It’s cheap, but it’s not ground breaking enough for Turtleboy Sports.

Anyway, just to prove to Noah how dumb his comments were, here’s a whole bunch groundbreaking pieces of journalism in TBS history that don’t involve listing the names of 13 hookers from Main South:

Exposing Laughlin Kennel. They ended up getting a cease and desist from the town of Oxford. Turtleboy was the only news outlet that had horrifying videos and pictures from the inside, along with interviews with former employees.

Mosaic. Fraudulent organization has funding pulled by City Manager. Every singe new outlet, including Masslive, went out of their way to ignore this story for as long as they could, because they had too much pride to admit that Turtleboy covers real news.

Turtleboy exposes woman who cheated in local charity road race. Rightful winners receive their new prizes from fire department.

Spencer-East Brookfield School District. Major corruption and coverups from superintendent, principal, and school committee exposed repeatedly. We filed FOIA’s to get payments to lawyers and even had Kevin Hayes followed around by our field reporters, proving that he was doing side work for the superintendent.

Vernon Hill Elementary. Ten of 19 teachers quit because of tyrannical and unethical behavior of the principal.

Albert Haynesworth and Pat’s Towing. Former New England Patriots fat ass plots with disgraced towing company to get back city contracts.

SMOC housing. Corrupt organization getting checks and high salaries by throwing junkies in unsupervised homes together.

21 biggest dumps towns and cities in Massachusetts. Extensive research to scientifically quantify which places are worse than Worcester.

Forest Grove teachers bullied by students on social media.

Worcester crappy plowing jobs exposed, contrary to the lie told by Paul Moosey that the roads are fine. Ed Augustus issues apology. Turtleboy refuses to accept.

Donald Trump death threat on Twitter leads to girl getting fired, and then calling the cops on Turtleboy.

Greenfield neighbors who humiliated their cop neighbor for a confederate flag, turned out to be teachers with incredibly inappropriate displays on social media.

Orange fire department blamed by the Greenfield Recorder for 2 girls dying. Turtleboy finds out that the people making the claims are known criminals and local scumbags.

Lisa Dyer email calling Janice Harvey racist for using the term “color blind.” This never would have made the news if we didn’t report it.

Anything from Joe Social Worker.

Derek Thomas running up million dollars bills by taking 2-3 free ambulance rides a day.

Trash on Vernon Hill. A real eyesore from the highway. We exposed and in two days it was magically cleaned up, per the orders of the Mass DOT.

Courthouse Jumper. We broke the story and were the only outlet with pictures.

David Njuguna bragged about driving 160 mph on Facebook, a couple years before killing Trooper Clardy on the highway.

Worst street for potholes in Worcester. Within a year every street listed was paved.

There ya go Noah. That’s just a start. Some light reading for you so you can see what real journalism looks like. You guys are better than the Telegram, but don’t think for one second that you’re even approaching our level.

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