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Ian Lind’s ilind.net

It used to be that a journalist’s biggest annoyance was PR flacks. We don’t like dealing with them, and god forbid we ever become one of them. Now, it’s bloggers—especially reporters-cum-bloggers. On O‘ahu, former Star-Bulletin reporter (and occasional Weekly contributor) Ian Lind is that guy. And dammit if he doesn’t break as much, if not more news than our fair dailies (and, yes, this weekly)—when he’s not writing about his colony of cats.

Consider Malia Zimmerman’s long report on Mrs. Duke Bainum and her alleged financial gouging of an elderly man in her care. The story created a massive stir and may have cost Duke the election. Neither daily paper investigated the story, but Lind did. Within days of the Zimmerman story hitting the streets, he had posted a counter story on ilind.net in which he offered an in-depth analysis of the documents that Zimmerman used to write her story. The result: Zimmerman’s damning account was found seriously lacking. Had the dailies done the same work, the whole city would’ve known the truth.—K.H.