Comments on: Mr. Arrington “Discloses” Blogging’s Heart of Darkness

By: Deep Jive Interests » The Nature of New Media: Its Neither the ClueTrain Manifesto (Nor Andrew Keen)

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:03:41 +0000

[...] good or bad, there cannot but be some kind of influence. And in this new media world we live in, bloggers are proud of their closer connections to industry; on one hand it allows them to get the scoop earlier and faster than traditional outlets. On the [...]

By: Closure at odd time signatures

Closure at odd time signatures — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 23:06:22 +0000

[...] Tony Hung had some wise words, too:>/a> While we may all think we are disciples at the holy church of Authenticity, praying for divine guidance so that we may live in the holy light of Transparency, the real fact is that blogging’s connected nature makes it impossible to be truly impartial. [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Why Mike Arrington Rules The Web2.0 Blogosphere (And How there’s Nothing We Can Do About it)

Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:08:50 +0000

[...] The biggest thing I took away from the interview, as I harped on yesterday, was how connected he is — and how that connectedness is reflected both in the nature of blogging, and the content that he blogs about. [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:35:21 +0000

Oh — and Mike, if you’re listening wherever you are (taking a vacation, I presume)

… thanks for stopping by as well. ;)

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:34:48 +0000

Hey JD — thanks for stopping by.

I like the “flawed meatpuppets” phrase … I may have to use that myself one day.

But one wonders whether or not they didn’t report the Appeal for Redress because they were lousy reporters, thought it was a non issue, or because they deliberately wanted to mislead the public.

At the end of the day, I think that bloggers are less like journalists/reporters and more like columnists.

More opinionated, perhaps more in bed with their topics, and the better everyone realizes it and understands it the less outrage there’ll be.

(tip of the hat to mat ingram on that one)

Cheers
t @ dji

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:37:25 +0000

“While we may all think we are disciples at the holy church of Authenticity, praying for divine guidance so that we may live in the holy light of Transparency, the real fact is that blogging’s connected nature makes it impossible to be truly impartial.”

Two points on that one, Tony, I’m with you, thanks.

A lot of the subtext on the “PayPerPost” business seems to be “But I *should* be able to believe what I read on the Internet!!”, which doesn’t seem sound to me.

I’m not sure commercial storytellers were ever as impartial as they make out, though… having a talking-head on two sides of an issue ignores how that issue was chosen as “the news” in the first place. The Appeal for Redress story this week shows how commercial storytellers will still parrot what they’re told by a good PR group. I’m not sure that “journalists” are all so much more “impartial” than bloggers.

Thanks for that reminder about how we’re all flawed meatpuppets, though… great safety valve, that! :)

By: michael arrington

michael arrington — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:09:42 +0000

wow, you get me. Somebody actually gets me.

And I think that is a wonderful idea. The anti-Crunch.