Hold up a second there, pardner...

Xoff Files has a post up on Charlie Sykes' take on the official state newspaper topic. I read through the post as innocent bystander until I got to this line:

Except I was thinking the state could use my blog as the official site, maybe for about 10% of what it now pays the State Journal. That would be $9-million in annual savings. And a million a year would not affect my objectivity one bit.

Ahem. Sorry Xoff. Jiblog scratched out that little piece of turf way back on April 13th, and I'm protecting it like Ted Kennedy protects his bottle of Glenfiddich, baby-ferociously and to the death.