When Blog Networks Make News, Silence Abounds

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday November 17, 2006 @08:55AM from the catching-up-with-the-'real'-outlets dept.

1sockchuck writes "It's been a bad week for transparency and disclosure in the blogosphere, demonstrating that once blogging starts making money, the rules change. Nick Douglas was dismissed from ValleyWag, Jason Calacanis bolts from AOL, and co-founder Duncan Riley abruptly departs from b5media. Where do we get the real story? From The New York Times, or not at all. If we've come to expect honesty and straight talk from blogging icons, it's because so many blogospheric leaders have told us we should. And now suddenly we're getting the snarky insider accounts of blogospheric dirt from The New York Times?"

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Re:Ohh pullleeezz by homey+of+my+owney · 2006-11-17 10:28 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You're speaking as though The NY Times is some sort of moral beacon. If we ignore for the moment the number of mainstream journalists who were found to have... ummm... improvised the facts, the NYT is still one of the most jaundiced media outlets. The would be just slightly more believable if they changed the upper left front to read "All the news that fits, we print".