Compare the Advocate and Enquirer Yourself.

What a rare treat last Sunday, the Advocate front paged a really interesting article for it's readers.  Brought to my mind when people are asked, are you playing with the cat -- or is the cat playing with you.

They published an article about teenagers fighting in public, and the old saying give them enough rope and they'll hang themselves never could have been better.

Jimenez vs the Advocate, a slam dunk double homicide.  What a front page story worthy of the checkout line news rack at any supermarket across the county. Just the other day while checking out one of the leading papers which contained this sensational headline, O.J. Simpson is Kim Kardashian's dad. I wondered to myself if O.J and company had been a blog at the Advocate how it would stack up against the Advocate's front page news last Sunday.

The Enquirer's site had some good stories to compare with, but they don't have a blog site to interact with.

The Advocate's site does that and more, and you can go straight to the story at Advocate, award winner, it really focus's on Victoria and the community. A young 18 year old high school sophomore and his posse beat up on each other in moderate doses at public displays in search of alpha dog characters and codependent cronies for a real in depth look at what's going on in Victoria these days.

Bringing to light these fun loving youth and their extracurricular hobbies, with all the attention they garnered the Advocate really got the blog rolling, especially with all the colorful comments the young film maker could muster with his iPhone feature films and gang-bonic over the top comments guaranteed to put a broad smile on any high school English teacher. 

Couple of helpful commentators suggested that the 18 year old sophomore and aspiring filmmaker solicit H.O.T funds for a good V-town downtown throw down next year. Tattoo artists and street fighters should provide ample entertainment for family members. Throw in a couple of gang fights in the crowds and it's a sure success.

Moving along, the interaction between bloggers had different viewpoints, hence the banter stayed hot and heavy throughout the day.  Seems like those bloggers, that really don't represent Victoria, didn't have anything much to say good about the filmmaker, or his video's.  But the Advocate led the way with thorough journalism and cutting edge storyline to bring us a really in-depth look, even the filmmaker's mother gave the nod of approval, and that's hard to argue  Nice to have family support !

And they followed the story up, as they're known to do like they have in the past, with more blogs and updated new stories.  It's hard to get extremely good stories like this . . . but the Advocate rose to the occasion and let people know where they stand on social issues. They're always every wary to scoop the greatest stories on the streets.  Real young reporters really watch for great news, and when you're close to the action, great stories evolve. 

I didn't want to steal any Advocate thunder so I didn't post the videos, but you can link on them again if you missed anything the first time.

Then the Advocate followed up the story, as to leave no stone unturned with this blog that I'll link you too. 
More youth fight-sport coverage promotional link.

Over all the coverage was thorough and well thought out. Exciting to say the least.

I have to give the nod to the Advocate, as opposed to the Enquirer, on this one.


Plus it garnered some attention to a young and aspiring filmmaker, and as important as the arts have been promoted lately, it really showed what Victoria is all about.



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― Dorothy Parker

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