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Jul

2010

CNN anchors attack the scourge of anonymity - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

Yep - gotta love the image of established media wringing its collective hands over the downfall of Public Man as wrought by the pyjamahadeen...
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At least anonymous bloggers are very clear and truthful about what they are: often citizens whose jobs or other interests prevent them from attaching their names to their political expression. By stark contrast, all of these establishment media outlets perpetrate a total fraud on the public by pretending that they have standards for when anonymity will be used even though, as these examples from the last 24 hours alone prove, they routinely violate those alleged standards for absolutely no reason. It just never ceases to amaze how much establishment journalists like Roberts and Phillips love to rail against the Evils of Internet Anonymity when reckless, cowardly anonymity -- for purposes ranging from catty, trivial gossip to pernicious propaganda and everything in between -- is a central tool of their "profession" and of the political class they cover.
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www.salon.com/...anonymity

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May

2009

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)

www.salon.com/...parasites

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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).
- Yule Heibel on 2009-05-18
  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).
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