Par Aria, owner of Farm Fresh Market, weighs in at Crown City News with a lengthy, detailed letter on the problems there.
Oh, CCN, and it's us you're talking about at the beginning of your post, and it REALLY helps to read what we say before you slam it!:
PLEASE look at the post -- we're not criticizing your ethics and abilities, and who are you quoting, precisely, 'cause that's not what we said. Putting words in our mouth isn't helping ...
The standards of blogs are more loose, but the standards of journalism aren't -- like facts, fairness, etc. We're still subject to the laws of libel and slander, too. There are several unattributed statements in the article that, if they were talking about us, we'd want a chance to respond to. We don't see evidence of due diligence here. You should see the spew we're NOT publishing for these reasons! And we think it's a fair criticism -- we want you to be a better product!
THAT doesn't surprise me -- we're surprised they crawled out from under their rock to talk to PSN and gratuitously insult Par and Helga a couple of weeks ago!
So ... what is this?
And, obviously, you read Altadenablog! And you think it matters!