This contest winner had already been decided more than three weeks ago. A good friend of SouthsideCentral wanted me to find out who the winner was, so I started working on it for them. I was able to work my sources and come up with all the information. I was at the 100% confidence level, so I could have published the story then and beat all other media sources to the news.<\/p>\n
I chose not to do that because this was a fun little contest that Economic Development had run and I didn’t want to destroy their announcement. This was also a big deal with the owners of the new business and I just didn’t want to publicly ruin their fun little surprise. I told the economic development staff that I would defer publishing the information, but I wasn’t going to wait forever. I asked them to put their press release together and publish it first. I reminded the staff about that at Monday’s RIFA meeting and they said they’d get it done on Tuesday. They did, and all is good in the world. I did tell a few SouthsideCentral friends the “inside information” because they had asked about some rumors they had heard. That’s a big difference from revealing a fun little contest winner to everybody and ruining the relatively small surprise.<\/p>\n
It’s a judgment call. When it came to the Walmart Neighborhood Market plans, SouthsideCentral announced that two weeks before any other media source picked the news up. I did background research that the other media sources weren’t able (or willing) to do, confirmed it to the 100% confidence level, then published it. I did the same thing last week on Walmart’s plans to demolish the existing Piggly Wiggly store and rebuild from scratch.<\/p>\n
My favorite quote from that story on social media was…<\/p>\n
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And my response was…<\/p>\n
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Needless to say, SouthsideCentral was 100% correct.<\/p>\n
I didn’t write this article to blow my own horn. I wrote this article to let you know what goes on behind the scenes of SouthsideCentral on a daily basis. I want you to know that you can count on SouthsideCentral to have accurate information. Sure, I’m going to make a few mistakes along the way. But I promise they’re going to be very rare and that I will correct them as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Like the article title says … “And that, gentlemen, is how we do that.”<\/p>\n
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