though it wasn't cited in this post.
Snively's mother, Heidi Kidd of St. Albans, W.Va., said Snively met Roberts a few weeks ago through Craigslist, the online classified service. Roberts told Snively she was pregnant and wanted baby clothes, Kidd said. They befriended one another and kept talking online.
Tocque Deville makes a
http://dailytocque.com/?p=466">strong case that all these Craigslist crime stories elevated to the top of the charts lately are not accidental.
So now it’s war. Just last week at the private executives meeting of the American Press Institute, the theme was get craigslist. Here’s the roundup from Poynter’s Rick Edmonds in an article titled, “API to Summit: Newspapers Should Mount a Unified Challenge to Craigslist”:
The main event at the private executives’ meeting a week ago in Chicago was discussion of paid online content, and the American Press Institute contributed a white paper strongly endorsing several versions of that strategy. API also offered a second recommendation and a second white paper, arguing that the industry should mobilize “to prevent further revenue erosion” of classifieds.
The target of the effort would be Craigslist, whose mostly free listings have contributed to the disastrous dive of what used to be the industry’s most lucrative revenue source. The white paper suggests that with “a powerful unified national brand” on a common platform, newspapers could take back some of that business.
As the image below demonstrates, however, newspaper executives already had craigslist in their sites. This is a Google News snapshot of the returns for the search term “craigslist” from articles posted in the last 30 days:
Read it yourself. The newspaper business and their patrons in the broader corporate media are definitely pumping stories to try to make Craigslist look bad. The one cited here is no exception.