Among the many interesting reader comments posted on the www.crestviewbulletin.com Web site in response to a brief article on the May 26 Crestview city council meeting was this leadoff hit:

“Funny how the meeting ended after 7 and this is already posted.”

If you read the whole comment, you’ll see it wasn’t intended as a compliment.

The story was posted at 8:59 p.m. (If any of you check the story on our Web site it will say 9:59 p.m.; our site is on Eastern time).

All I have to say is, I’m sorry it took so long.

In today’s high-tech age, the sooner a big story goes up, the better.

I think the commenter was implying the story got special treatment to get posted so quickly.

If that’s the case, we also gave special treatment to a house fire Wednesday in Crestview (fire was reported at about 2 p.m.; story was posted by 4 p.m.) and to the May Day and Military Appreciation activities Saturday (photo galleries posted by 4 p.m. on Saturday immediately after the morning and early-afternoon activities), among others

No, we don’t always post government meeting articles immediately after the fact. If the biggest news from a council meeting is, say, passing of a resolution in support of the F-35 (as was the case earlier this spring), then I feel comfortable eating supper and sleeping first and posting the news first thing in the morning.

But if it’s big story, we’re going to post the information as soon as we can.

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