Yesterday’s post about The Washington Independent folding spiked blog traffic by about 1,000 individual page views.   People are upset about the “dancing on the grave” comment.

I find this extremely hypocritical.  This industry has been the subject of vicious, factually incorrect reporting that has led to thousands of payday loan workers losing their jobs.  I posted just Monday about Montana stores closing, workers losing their jobs.

One thing about reporters I’ve learned in 25 years of public relations, they can dish it out but they sure can’t take it.  Every single time I’ve called out a reporter on this blog for factual errors in their stories, they’ve called me to whine.  Every time I’ve accused a columnist of having an anti-business bias, they’ve gone ballistic.   But they throw around words like “loan shark” and “parasites” pretty easily.  They are the thinnest skinned people around.