Incoming Assaults! Eek!

There seems to be a concerted effort over the last day to post comments on this blog regarding my earlier posts here and here castigating BestofVegas.Com for the fact that a site that claims to be something new and something Vegas-wise would use 5-year-old images of the Strip to promote itself. I also took issue with what they're calling "exclusive celebrity content" because what's on the site is not in any way, shape or form exclusive.

So they had their party and now I'm getting beaten up. The gist of these comments are:

1. Valid, accurate critique = hate.
2. Nicky Hilton is actually a future Nobel laureate.
3. I would've thought differently had gone to the party.
4. My status as a journalist has been tarnished because I did not drink the Kool-Aid.

Nobody even vaguely attempted to defend this website's dishonest claims, carefully debunked in that first post, of "exclusive celebrity content." I guess the journalistic standards of real working national journalists are a wee bit different than the freeloaders who suck up to get invited to parties hoping to see sexy girls.

The point here is not whether the site itself is any good for what it actually intends to do, which is to sell travel. They may be great at this and bully for them. The point is that they burst into a new city and show their total ignorance of it when they put out promotional material with ancient visuals. Then the content of their site pretends to be journalistic when, in fact, it's more promotional material.

Just to be clear, I didn't skip this party because I was offended by the advertising imagery. I skipped it because these sorts of parties happen about once a week, aren't my thing and are never what I would define as newsworthy. The same old self-important people standing around having the same old conversations while mooching off some sucker who thinks that throwing such an event makes them a part of the community? What's fun about that?

Gotta go. Real news calls.