– Three SUV drivers
– The biggest car dealer in Boston
– A professor at Virginia Tech who follows the industry
– The chief economist from the National Automotive Dealers Association
– An automotive market research organization
– Automotive sales figures

Now, let’s examine the base premise of your post. Here’s what the story actually says about the SUV owner’s gas-buying: “After paying $75 to fill his black Dodge Ram pickup truck for the third time in a week, Douglas Chrystall couldn’t take it anymore.” That’s it. That’s all it says. Your entire post is based on the nonsensical leap that because he filled his tank three times in one week he must fill his tank three times every week. When Todd pointed out this quite fatal flaw in your logic your response was really, really weak. It’s almost as if you misread the story, wrote the post, and now can’t bring yourself to admit you were wrong.

Furthermore, I don’t understand your innuendo-laden implication that somehow using a web site to find sources is bad journalism. Why? Seems like an efficient way to contact a lot of people and a reasonable use of their web site to me. How ironic that a blogger — someone who mostly relies on the Internet for sources — would complain about a print reporter doing the same thing. How many bloggers have written the line “E-mail me if you’ve …”? Too many to count.

Finally, you say the Globe was “unable to find anyone that is suffering from the market changes.” Really? It’s pretty clear you didn’t contact the reporter, so how do you know she found her sources.

Ummm. No. That’s not even close to what the story is about. But why let facts spoil a good tirade and all that self-congratulatory back-patting.

The story was about the fact that the market for SUVs, especially the trade-in market, has basically collapsed. How much the guy drives, or how much he pays a week for gas, or whether or not he’s a typical driver is irrelevant. What’s relevant is that he’s an SUV owner. That’s why he’s quoted in the story. The story has numerous sources for its assertions, ranging from several SUV owners to Boston’s biggest auto dealer, from the chief economist for the auto dealers trade association to an academic who follows the industry.

So basically what we have here is a blogger who takes a couple of details in a story out of context and twists them in an intellectually dishonest way. Yep, that’s NEWS.