Comments on: Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers, New York Times Goes Off http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy Beal http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york.html/comment-page-1#comment-200 Andy Beal Tue, 07 Mar 2006 19:02:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wp_import/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york-times-goes-off.htm#comment-200 A good point. If anything bloggers hold themselves to a higher set of standards - we feel compelled to prove our credibility to others and end up being more open than traditional media. A good point. If anything bloggers hold themselves to a higher set of standards – we feel compelled to prove our credibility to others and end up being more open than traditional media.

]]> By: Nathan Weinberg http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york.html/comment-page-1#comment-199 Nathan Weinberg Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:57:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wp_import/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york-times-goes-off.htm#comment-199 Smilies?!? Smilies! Oh, how uncouth! Ok, I'll stop now. Not going to drive the joke into the ground. TO get on the serious side, I know blogs break news of mainstream media screwing up (like the happens-every-few-months plagiarism stories), but are there blogs dedicated to finding mistakes in the MSM, just to embaress every NYTimes writer who cuts and pastes quotes, reprints press releases, steals quotes from other reporters interviews, fails to attribute online media, and quotes vague "highly-placed" sources? I'd love to read a blog that did just that, exposing the lazy shortcuts of mainstream reporting. The big difference between blogs and newspapers: When we quote a press release, we link to it. The reader always knows. Smilies?!? Smilies! Oh, how uncouth!

Ok, I’ll stop now. Not going to drive the joke into the ground.

TO get on the serious side, I know blogs break news of mainstream media screwing up (like the happens-every-few-months plagiarism stories), but are there blogs dedicated to finding mistakes in the MSM, just to embaress every NYTimes writer who cuts and pastes quotes, reprints press releases, steals quotes from other reporters interviews, fails to attribute online media, and quotes vague “highly-placed” sources? I’d love to read a blog that did just that, exposing the lazy shortcuts of mainstream reporting.

The big difference between blogs and newspapers: When we quote a press release, we link to it. The reader always knows.

]]> By: Andy Beal http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york.html/comment-page-1#comment-198 Andy Beal Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:51:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wp_import/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york-times-goes-off.htm#comment-198 LMAO... Dang, I actually didn't cut and paste the "cut and paste", that would have been so ironic. ;-) LMAO…

Dang, I actually didn’t cut and paste the “cut and paste”, that would have been so ironic. ;-)

]]> By: Nathan Weinberg http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york.html/comment-page-1#comment-197 Nathan Weinberg Tue, 07 Mar 2006 18:35:00 +0000 http://localhost:8888/wp_import/2006/03/wal-mart-enlists-bloggers-new-york-times-goes-off.htm#comment-197 Andy, did you cut and paste the quote "cut and paste" from the New York Times? Also, you shouldn't use acronyms like MSM without clarifying them; that isn't proper AP style. And the PS? So unprofessional... Andy, did you cut and paste the quote “cut and paste” from the New York Times? Also, you shouldn’t use acronyms like MSM without clarifying them; that isn’t proper AP style.

And the PS? So unprofessional…

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