MYSTERIOUS CREATURE DISCOVERED ON TEXAS LAKE

Hi Kaitlin,

I dont' know what your credentials are for critiquing news related articles and videos, but I have been publishing and editing news for a long time. I appreciate your constructive critiscism if this is your intent, however I make every effort to find interesting topics, and then back up that information when available. When I can find more on this topic, I will submit it. Contrary to your ideas of what is"news worthy", this story is of great interest to a number of people, most noteworthy, the fox network. Not every news topic follows a "W5 formula as you refer to it. Of course you have every right to express your opinions, I just happen to disagree with your reasoning here.

Steve Shaman

Skywatch-Media News 

Hi Steve,

Thanks for replying. I wasn't attacking the nature or newsworthiness of the story as a whole, rather I was looking for you to fill in the details about this story here, on our site. That's why I said I "wasn't sure what was newsworthy"--that's not to say it isn't newsworthy, just that I couldn't tell, from the info you provided here, what was newsworthy. I wanted you to fill in what was newsworthy about this, and more backing information, in your story here on NowPublic (rather than leading people to the story in Skywatch). Make sense?

If there's not much more info right now, tell us as much...then we know you're telling the whole story as it now stands.

As for my credentials--as NowPublic users we all have the "right" credentials to constructively criticize each other--we're all citizens finding news that matters to us. That is part of our mandate here. No one user has better or worse credentials when it comes to NowPublic.

Finally, I will always encourage users to question and prove wrong Needs Improvement flags (that's the point of them); however, this can easily be done by questioning the points the flagger has raised without pointing the finger at the flagger him/herself.