The blogger from the West Side has penned yet another mean-spirited assault on columnist Tim Myers, who stopped writing for the West Ranch Beacon after the Signal offered him his old Sunday column back. Posted herein, I tell Bossert to get a life.
The SCV isn’t home to many blogs, and the ones that do cover this town aren’t very large in the grand scheme of the internet. Our audience is limited by geography (and much of that audience is apathetic about SCV news), and most of us get to know our readers, commenters and other SCV literati in the course of events.
That’s not to say we don’t have influence, but really, it’s foolish for any of us to take ourselves so seriously.
Somebody needs to relay that to Dave Bossert, the president of the fictional government body known as the West Ranch Town Council and the man behind the West Ranch Beacon blog.
For the third time, Bossert has posted a message relaying his disgust, hurt feelings, and general teenaged-angst over Myers’ “betrayal.”
Well, I have to say that there were plenty of emails since last Wednesday when I posted the piece titled “Tim Myers’ Ego seems to Trump his Integrity by a Mile.” Many of our readers were basically of the same mind in saying “good riddance” to Myers and his liberal views. Although, I do like having alternative views on this site as a way of bringing some balance to topics and issues.
For me, I still think that I was more taken aback by Tim’s blatant disregard for his word which appears to be more and more indicative of people like Tim these days. You know the pseudo intellectual liberal who will justify any decision, viewpoint or opinion no matter how dishonest it may be.
Gee Dave, would you like some cheese with that whine?
Let’s review the facts of Tim Myers’ departure from West Ranch Beacon. Here’s what happened:
1. Signal asks Tim Myers to be exclusive Sunday columnist
2. Tim Myers accepts, regretfully informs Bossert
3. Bossert throws tantrum
That’s basically the gist of what happened here that got Bossert so mad. And the funniest part of all is that Tim Myers openly admitted to Bossert that he’d prefer to write for the Signal rather than West Ranch Beacon.
Let me clue in Dave on why that is: Writers write in order to be read. And no matter what you think of your blog (or what I think of my own), more eyeballs read the Signal than West Ranch Beacon.com, or SCVTalk, or both combined for that matter.
As Myers said, the “Signal is still the hottest game in town,” and is read more widely than blog sites. Plus there’s the satisfaction of knowing your name went through an actual,physical, printing press and stains the fingers of your readers.
But to hear Bossert talk about his site and his hurt feelings, you’d think West Ranch Beacon was the most important news outlet in Santa Clarita.
Frankly, it’s not even close. Bossert posts commentaries maybe two or three times a month; the rest of the time, his content is automatically copy/pasted from various news soures around the web. He’s little more than a bad imitation of the Drudge Report, a blog that’s on auto-pilot 90% of the time, with little character and style and even less comment activity.
What’s more, he can’t spell very well.
Which leads me to my next point. Recently, Bossert gleefully attacked me personally after the cowardly and anonymous NotAFerryFan copied him on an email sent to me.
NotAFerryFan (herein referred to as NAFF) was upset that I had criticized one of his recent one-sided videos; you know, one of those silly YouTube posts that says Pulskamp and the City Council are dead-set on turning Santa Clarita into New York City West.
At frist NAFF accused me of censoring his comments, a claim that is laughable on its face since I’m not a government agency and I reserve the right to edit, approve, and otherwise post content on my privately owned site.
Then NAFF told me, “I am guessing that you (Jeff Wilson),as a struggling 40ish writer, have not achieved the American Dream and are jealous of those who have.”
Dead wrong NAFF!
I’m a struggling 30ish writer who’s quite proud of my achievements.
All this back ‘n forth inspired Bossert to go all Bill O’Reilly on me, accusing me of being a member of the “far left” camp who wants to redistribute wealth rather than work and earn my “own slice of the American dream.”
Yeah, that’s exactly who I am. I don’t wake up each morning at 4:30, search for relevant news for my readers, write everything that appears on the site myself, and hope people enjoy it. I’m not busting my butt to make this a better place through posting relevant topics and information and encouraging respectful discussion, all the while maintaining a 40 hour a week job, an active social life, and commuting places on my bicycle.
So just how long will Bossert throw his own pity party? I’m not sure, but there’s even less reason to visit his site now that Tim Myers has gone back to The Signal. Perhaps Tim shouldn’t have informed Bossert of his decision at all and instead just invited Bossert to call 661-367-2388.
Dave. Get over it. You’ve been rejected.