Patrick's Rants

In an article that bashes all things blog I was almost following the logic until the author attacked groklaw.net as being set up solely to bash SCO. Hahaha…. SCO threw the first stone, PJ threw back. Now Forbes is calling us the blog mob. Come on Forbes, the revolution starts with the peasants carrying pitchforks and torches. Maybe that’s exactly what they want us to be seen as, the angry mob against the misunderstood monster pieced together by Dr. Frankenstein. Poor monster of a media outlet – you’re just misunderstood.
And that was just on page one. The thing is the blog is the “poor man’s media” inasmuch as I can publish my little page without having to sell ads (ok so there are some on the page, but it’s not a huge amount of revenue) or subscriptions. You can read how Forbes attacks bloggers online using forbesdontbug/forbesdontbug. Now, I don’t completely disagree that bloggers can be malicious, that some are paid by sponsors to write good things about them or bad things about their competitors and detractors – but to paint all bloggers in the same broad brush diminishes their own “journalistic integrity” if they have any.
Follow up:
Boing Boing does a pretty decent write up on the Forbes attack machine as well.