Originally Posted by justindew

There is your mistake!!!! I was NOT hired to report news. I was hired to give my thoughts, observations, and analysis on the Derby and the Derby Trail. Period. Churchill employs numerous journalists during Derby Week and the rest of the spring to report news. And those journalists did just that. I was not one of them. I was a blogger. Bloggers aren't reporters. Bloggers don't claim to be reporters. At least I don't. A blogger is someone whose writing inspires conversation among others, and my blog did that.

I am getting the feeling that you never read the Hard Spun blog entry in question. If you had, it would have been clear to you what I did. A clocker told me something about Hard Spun, and that little tidbit influenced my wagering strategy. Therefore, since it was my blog, it was fair game. I never misrepresented anything. I never made any false claims. The info happened to be subject to interpretation and was probably inaccurate, but that was not my fault. Was it poor judgment to write what I wrote on the official Derby website? Yes. That's why it was removed. But to say that I was hired to report news is totally inaccurate.