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18 May 09

The myth of the parasitical bloggers - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

The title is self-explanatory for this article by Glenn Greenwald, who examines Maureen Dowd's plagiarism of Josh Marshall to show that bloggers aren't at all the parasites that MSM pretends they are. (h/t Dave Winer)

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  • I raise this only to illustrate how one-sided and even misleading is the complaint that bloggers are "parasites" on the work of "real journalists."  Often, the parasitical feeding happens in the opposite direction, though while bloggers routinely credit (and link to) the source of the material on which they're commenting, there is an unwritten code among many establishment journalists that while they credit each other's work, they're free to claim as their own whatever they find online without any need for credit or attribution (see here for a typical example of how many of these news organizations operate in this regard). 
    • This is *so* true and happened to me in an incident involving my local paper, whose reporter took a story I created and blogged about (namely, getting Victoria BC listed on the 07 list of FastCompany's "Fast Cities" index), and for which I received NO credit from the reporter (even though without me, there would have been no story for him to report). There are other examples. The MSM treat us like a resource - by which I mean, as though we were the resource in a resource-extraction economy, an economy that doesn't need to diversify or respect the ecosystem(s). - on 2009-05-18
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