Wilson foreclosure front page news?
Maybe in May when the Blade wrote about Brian Wilson no longer living in the Toledo area, including the information that the house had foreclosure paperwork filed, would have been relevant to their story…It was written on May 26 – LINK and the foreclosure paperwork was filed with the Wood County Courts on May 6. It’s not as if it was a huge secret, it’s a public court filing available to anyone who bothered to search it out.
Realizing the whole “relationship” between the Blade and WSPD, it’s not surprising that they wrote about a Sheriff’s sale being ordered for Wilson’s former Wood County residence, but is it front page news? When I read the story online in today’s Blade, LINK, I wondered about placement, so when I checked out the e-Edition of the Blade? Front page, apparently as important as the plane crash near Put in Bay…
It’s interesting that former Mayoral candidate Jim Moody is Wilson’s real estate agent, though the article from today doesn’t make that connection. It’s interesting that given Wilson’s focus on personal responsibility he ended up where many area residents have ended up, having a home that didn’t sell, end up in risk of being sold at a Sheriff’s sale, because payments were not made after they moved.
I just don’t see this as front page worthy and it’s hard to not see this as another example of the vendetta mentality that does nothing positive for our area…
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Wilson is obnoxious, but his libertarian views are right. The Blade should leave him alone.
by chuck on Aug 14, 2010 at 11:57 pm
Yes, he is all those things but you can’t on the one hand rant about deadbeats losing their homes and Obama being the antichrist for trying to help and then on the other hand walk away as he did. Sniffles or not.
Front page news? Probably not. Vendetta? Probably. Does a guy with such vective that only seeks to divide people and tear down the things he had nothing to do with building deserve the treatment? Probably, yes.
Maybe he has a buyer. Maybe he doesn’t. He walked away and didn’t pay in either case. I remember him and Freddy ranting about people who lost their houses because they bought a big tv or put in a pool or lived too high off the HELOC. Makes me wonder how this happened to dear Brian, interested in his well-being as I am.
by Jake on Aug 15, 2010 at 9:46 am
Just imagine, Wison has Moody as his realtor, it boggles the mind.
by thisjustin on Aug 15, 2010 at 10:23 am
Brian Wilson may be a bit of a hypocrite when he preaches so loudly about personal responsibility, yet allows his house to go into foreclosure. BUT! NO ONE knows what the circumstances are surrounding the sale of this property. If the buyer and seller are working out the details in finalizing the sale, for example, why continue paying when the house will soon exchange hands? No matter who, no matter what, someone’s foreclosure, anyone’s foreclosure should not be on the front page of a newspaper. But we’re not talking about a reputable newspaper are we? We are talking about a sick publisher that lies in wait to destroy anyone who does not succumb to his maniacal requests or dares to expose him. This was just another sick attempt to humiliate or destroy someone’s reputation. You have to wonder just how long this community will tolerate this nonsense. Does anyone know how close they are to going out of business? I am still getting calls from them offering the paper for $2.00 week and I can lock that low price in for a year! If they put $2.00 in each paper they delivered I wouldn’t have that trash on my front porch!
by Mike on Aug 16, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Wonder if he’s going to go on a rant about himself being a deadbeat who doesn’t pay his bills.
by Robin on Aug 16, 2010 at 3:54 pm
In fairness to the Blade, it’s a two way love fest between them and WSPD. Every time Wilson mentions Stainbrook, he calls him Block’s pimp. It’s very personal between the two. God forbid either one covers real news.
by SensorG on Aug 16, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Totally agree with #2 and #6.
I have no love for Wilson, but it’s obviously a smeary attack piece. Consider that it got more attention from the Blade than Dillin’s refusal to pay by the deadline. Speaking of which, did Dillin EVER pay that bill he owed?
by Marty Bags on Aug 16, 2010 at 4:18 pm
With all due respect SG, these are two very different media forums, if you even consider talk radio true media. If the Blade considers itself a newspaper it shouldn’t be “personal”. That’s the problem. As for Stainbrook being Block’s pimp, it’s true. From stain’s mouth to my ear he admitted what he’d done for John Block to keep him happy.
by mike on Aug 16, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Jim Moody being Wilson’s realtor very likely has nothing to do with politics. A smart seller gets a realtor to help sell his house. Unfortunately the market is just not good right now. Perhaps as a show of goodwill, the Blade could offer free advertising to Jim Moody and Flex Realty to help sell Brian’s house. After all, it would make the paper look one page thicker.
by Marty Bags on Aug 16, 2010 at 4:27 pm
Lisa,
Since you felt that you need point out the Blade’s “vendetta mentality” for going after Brian Wilson, but it looks like the TFP is doing the same thing by going after “Wolfman” for the exact same thing.
With the not to subtle threat of “we know who you are”.
http://www.toledofreepress.com/2010/08/20/brian-wilson%E2%80%99s-war/
I’d like to get your view on this, or does you being a TFP writer not allow you to comment? Which I undersand if that is the case.
by SensorG on Aug 20, 2010 at 11:09 am
I’m free to comment, I didn’t take it as a threat at all, Wolfman writes editorial pieces in the Blade in his own name and sends e-mails using his real name to several of us, including Michael.
As an example, if you forwarded me editorials you wrote in your own name and posted them on local websites, that would be different than you sharing your name with me in private e-mail exchanges.
If you write an e-mail to a traditional media source they will use your real name not your webname if they report on it or share it. I personally would have used his real name had it been me, but Michael opted not to. It was actually the opposite concern as opposed to a threat.
I also didn’t see it as the TFP having a vendetta with Wolfman, I took it as more of a setting the record straight as far as some of the assumptions some out there in the community have. Some of the assumptions about the TFP I’ve ran into.
When I first started working there, people assumed because of the editorial pages it was a right wing paper, that’s not accurate since there are and have been even before Don and I opinion writers that were not conservative and editorial opinions don’t impact news coverage.
There’s no love lost between the powers to be at the Blade and the TFP, however the assumption that the TFP will automatically take a different position based on just what the Blade does is wrong. I didn’t think the Wilson story was front page news, nor did many of us.
by LisaRenee on Aug 20, 2010 at 12:39 pm