Free Press links
A note spurred by this thread: please don't C&P whole articles here, as that's poor netiquette and could be legal whatnot or something if the Free Press wants to be a pain in the ass.
If you've found something on the Free Press site and find it distasteful to link to them (which invites questions about how you found it, but whatever), just google the first line or a relevant quote and you'll get either the identical AP story somewhere else or a full transcription of a press conference. The Free Press isn't getting quotes that don't exist elsewhere. If that doesn't work, just link to their printer page.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:41 PM ^
You won't get in trouble. Remember? The FREEP doesn't even know about this place or how to contact the people who run it.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:53 PM ^
We don't even know if his name is really Brian. That's just what he calls himself here.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:01 PM ^
been operating under the assumption that "Brian" is from a far away galaxy and that his real name is Aereen Kraloinne.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:02 PM ^
use a name generator for that, or what? It sounds like it was straight out of Star Wars.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:10 PM ^
And yes I did use a generator.
http://swg.stratics.com/content/gameplay/characters/randomname.php
September 9th, 2009 at 12:53 PM ^
He just goes by "Brian". He's like the Dread Pirate Roberts of the interwebs.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:05 PM ^
When Brian is ready to retire, we definately should have a contest to see who gets to take over as the next Dread Pirate Roberts of the interwebs.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:52 PM ^
The conundrum of how someone concerned with boycotting freep.com found an article there was confusing me as well.
September 9th, 2009 at 12:53 PM ^
Why don't we just treat Freep articles like they do vulgarities on the radio - take out the vowels and hope nobody realizes the guy just said sh*t and f*ck. Actually, most Freep articles would probably read better without vowels - kind of like madlibs, but with mediocre article writing.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:13 PM ^
i think it's impressive when radio personalities can remove vowels from spoken words.
September 9th, 2009 at 1:35 PM ^
to Brian last week on WJR..."tell me what exactly is the mgoblog.com? Certainly you must have another job...
Guess WJR's research department is not what it used to be. Would have been cool if Frank Beckmann could have done this interview.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:00 PM ^
point taken!
September 9th, 2009 at 2:11 PM ^
The freep is dead to me.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:12 PM ^
Can anyone still clicking on to the freep provide a brief, such as one paragraph, synposis of any story to which he refers? If that is legal, it might help remove the temptation for any of us who are boycotting to click onto the article.
September 9th, 2009 at 2:21 PM ^
"The Free Press isn't getting quotes that don't exist elsewhere."
Really? I was under the impression that they were pulling a lot of them straight out of their butts.