Ok, since he threw it out ICN will respond to the gratuitous dig TVNewser tossed out today at ICN. Normally I wouldn’t bother. But this is just so childish. It’s like watching Anderson Cooper and Dan Abrams trade barbs. Why TVNewser is so obsessed with ICN’s web traffic is a mystery to me. But whatever. If he wants to hem and haw about some news that came ICN’s way (as opposed to TVNewser’s way I presume) fine. Let him. I really don’t care. ICN isn’t about what TVNewser does or doesn’t do. But that doesn’t mean ICN is going to stand by and get cheap shotted for no good reason…

UPDATE: One more thing. I really don’t give a crap how many viewers ICN has. Whether its 200 or 10,000 it doesn’t change my focus. It has never been about competing with TVNewser and I’ve told him privately that was the case in the past when some of this blogs former writers used to take cheap shots at him which I didn’t care for and I told him so. He does his own thing his own way. And I do my own thing my own way. We may cover some of the same stories but we do it differently and for different reasons. It’s not like I’m out to compete with him or take him down (unlike say the rivarly between FTV and NewsBlues). There’s plenty of space out there for more than one blog and because the focus of the two blogs is different to a large extent it’s not like this is some sort of death match grudge, not in my eyes anyways. Which makes TVNewser’s unprovoked attack all the more galling.

UPDATE 2: TVNewser assures me that he got the ratings last night from MSNBC, and I have no reason to doubt what he said, so I will take down my accusation about that incident. But that doesn’t change the fact that ICN was unjustifiably cheap shotted. TVNewser has never used hit counts of another news blog as a weapon against said blog before. And with that I’ve said all I’m going to say about this incident.