Ever the purveyors of red tape and regulation, left-wing liberal bloggers are now suggesting rules and regulations to control all bloggers. Of course it’s the left-wing bloggers who are doing the damage and now demanding the rules and regulations, but that’s par for the course.
An article about bloggers and those who are secretly getting paid by liberal Democratic party politicians and the likes of lefty MoveOn.org and various companies caught my eye. Recently the story broke about a very popular left-wing blog that was getting paid off by the Democratic party’s Howard Dean with only a lame acknowledgement of it. One of my favorite blogs, the pro-Israel, anti-terrorist, anti-moonbat “Little Green Footballs” blog (of Charles Johnson), is that aforementioned left-wing blog owner’s nemesis and constant target of vitriol. LGF has written about it pretty extensively.
Liberals aren’t the greedy or corrupt ones, though. Don’t forget that. After all, they’re the ones who are demanding rules now. So that proves it.
[…] The growing influence of blogs such as his is raising questions about whether they are becoming a new form of journalism and in need of more formal ethical guidelines or codes of conduct.
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 27 percent of adults who go online in the United States read blogs. And blogs have greater impact because their readers tend to be policy makers and other influencers of public opinion, media experts say.
Then this paragraph made me spit my most recent sip of beer (it’s Friday):
[…]Jonathan Dube, managing producer at MSNBC.com and publisher of CyberJournalist.net, modified the Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics and urged fellow bloggers to adopt it. The principles: Be honest and fair. Minimize harm. Be accountable. […]
When does this “Journalists’ code of ethics” start to take effect for the old mainstream media, exactly?
Personally, although I’m not perfect in every way, I’m very fastidious when it comes to citing my sources and properly linking to them. And quoting exactly what was said, and not lying or presenting fraudulent documents. In other words I try to not be like CBS News or the New York Times (et al) in either journalistic integrity or political bias (I’m right-wing!).
And yet unlike the old mainstream media, I don’t pretend to be fair to both sides and balanced in my posting.
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