Why we should not be upset at Rich Johnston.

It's Monday night...I am writing this half asleep, the hour change definitly affected me a lot more than I would of liked. As soon as I put my labtop down I am going straight back to reading the Criminal Omnibus by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. Now, the reason why I am bringing Criminal up, is because of the story of how I got it. If you are not familiar by now Amazon had a colossal blunder last week on March 7th. They horribly marked down a ton of omnibuses'(imagine a graphic novel double sized and similar to a Blu-Ray disc, as it is packed with tons of extras), from fifty to sixty dollars down to fourteen or eight dollars. I was in awe when I first heard the news and immediately added three of the books to my cart and checked them out. I mean why not? Nobody knew the true reasoning behind this. Was it an Error? Was it a promotion that we were not quite aware of? Who knew? I just knew that tons of books I wanted were on sale. Eventually however, I got the dreaded letter from Amazon saying that I would not be receiving the items I ordered due to a pricing error that caused the books to be sold out, and that they would refund me my money. So out of the three books I ordered, I had one of them sent to me instead(The Criminal Omnibus). A few days later, I even got a twenty five dollar credit from Amazon due to the problem that this caused, which I used to buy two trade paperbacks. So for those counting at home, I got three books for around sixteen dollars that had a seventy dollar retail value. Now if you are unfamiliar with the man who broke this story, Rich Johnston(@RichJohnston) he is the creator/head-honcho of BleedingCool.Com, a blogsite devoted to Comicbook content. Well Rich caught a lot of slack due to this event. Many people calling for his head and the such, but I want to do the opposite. I want to applaud Rich Johnson. If a friend of mine had called me up and told me the same thing, I would applaud him as well, but with Social Media that friend was replaced with Rich Johnson. Rich did what anybody would of done last week. He simply found a huge gaping error and told people about it. Was it his fault that he has become a public figure and has 4,000 followers on Twitter! Social Media has become such a prominent powerhouse in communication that people fail to realize just how fast a message can go from a secret to a full blown story. Look at what happened with Kevin Smith and the Airline fiasco! So in closing I just want to tell Mr. Rich Johnston thank you again for the free comics from comic fans everywhere. Again, Keep up the good work and the journalism, from a fan who has followed you from your Lying in the Gutter days at ComicbookResources.com, I appreciate it.