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My wife and Jack are quoted in the Plain Dealer's article about our own version of the man in black (probably a better comparison than a black hole. (I always here Stephen Hawkin's voice when I read that phrase)):

"'I remember my first impression,' says friend and Cool Cleveland contributor Jack Ricchiuto, a corporate leadership coach. 'It was, like, what part of Europe is this guy from?' People think Mulready is intentionally unpredictable, says Cool Cleveland editor Tisha Nemeth. But it's not a pose. 'That's the way he is,' she says."

Leave it to a reporter to bring up this:

This kind of gray area is called a conflict of interest: A black hole with a gray area can lose its pull. "I think it's a potential risk, and I think it's one that Thomas is going to take," says Ricchiuto. "He's walking the edge between where you should be and where you shouldn't be." Mulready knows it. "It's very complicated and tangled. I believe in the impact of all the things that I do," he says. But "I've sorted that out now. I'm able to compartmentalize the different roles that I play. "Anybody who knows me knows that I don't do these things out of self-interest." That may be. "Because he's paying attention, I don't think he's going to get himself into trouble," Ricchiuto says."

Cool Cleveland isn't journalism. Neither are blogs. They're a personal expressions of Thomas', Tisha's, Jack's, and other contributors (in the case of CC) and my own personal views (in the case of BFD). Let me repeat: A blog or email newsletter is not journalism. Probably why they're paid more attention to and have such a polarizing affect on a community.