“I’ve seen some lousy reporting at the Aspen Daily News—including the one this year about a drunken editor trying to bribe a cop—but some of the worst ever can be found in Brent Gardner-Smith’s coverage of the resignation of Hugh Zuker, a candidate for Pitkin County Sheriff,” blogs the Con Man. “The story is actually a case study of how bad reporting happens. Somehow BGS got it in his head that I was behind the re-routing of a Joey DiSalvo domain address to the Zuker campaign web site, an event that led to Zuker’s resignation…. A letter to the editor, a mis-quote, compounded by the dreaded ‘he didn’t answer his phone.’ The truly bizarre element of BGS’s puerile attempt to generate controversy is that I told him point-blank last week that it was the candidate’s wife who had made the mistake. The offending domain registration was in her name. That apparently wasn’t good enough for our local Pro Publica graduate.”