Feb 9, 20066
Blogger Disclosure Practices Tested
If nothing else, this piece in the WSJ underscores the argument that bloggers are not journalists, or as Brian Oberkirch rightly puts it, “personal blogs are not media.” Unlike the MSM, disclosure standards and practices in the blogosphere are uniquely defined by each and every blogger, so trust is the only capital that can be built or dissolved, based on how we each *choose* to share or conceal our conflicts of interests when they surface.
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