<![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> Comment on Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us Actually, it's impossible to draw a conclusion from the pay-for- placement question in the APCO poll because it was a compound question: Were the bloggers disagreeing with the public relations professionals dictating disclosure or -- more defensible -- were they disagreeing that it is OK for flacks to pay bloggers at all? You can't tell from the results. That's the reason why courts don't allow compound questions. Good pollsters don't use them either. There's also no point in attempting to parse the results of the question regarding whether bloggers are "journalists" or not. As APCO points out, "bloggers are critical discussion drivers, whether or not they call themselves journalists." What is clear is that bloggers must adopt prohibitions against pay-for- placement -- a cornerstone of Mainstream Media codes of ethics for decades -- if they want to establish the credibility that is essential to building a loyal readership. Yo, that's the right way to get paid. Rich Heidorn Jr., TreeHouse Media Project (www.treehouse-media.net)

GloriaPuget

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> And then the revolution was over, like that.

Koreanish

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> "Bloggers" and "Flacks" are both such unappealing names. Who would choose either by way of self-description?

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> @Sleepyhead: Blasphemy. I only recognize the original.

@In Other News...: Also a good show. What about Dinosaurs? That shit was pre-continental drift. More shows should be set in Pangea.

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> @FitnessMadeSimple: Or "Land Of The Lost," whatevs.

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]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> @FitnessMadeSimple: Land Before Time 6.

Sleepyhead

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> @In Other News...: Like in The Land Before Time?

FitnessMadeSimple

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> @Hamilton Nolan: And when the great Blogger / Flack Schism rends open the Earth and swallows both sides whole, the Commenters, yea the Commenters will flood the plains, spouting witticisms and snark galore.

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]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> Flacks to bloggers: You're not worth it.

Hamilton Nolan

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> I talk about people all the time and nobody pays me.

Colonel Mustard

]]> <![CDATA[Bloggers To Flacks: Pay Us]]> Commenting for personal gain? That's awful!

(By the way, would anyone like to buy the domain name PayPerComment.com? E-mail me!)

TedSez

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