But blogs are self policing. They are not a push technology. They don't have giant multinational structures and teams of lawyers avoiding the law.
I think the key here is that Blogs are self policing. That's why they're cool and that's why they're popular. People have the power to challenge a blog - on the air - so to speak. It would be like me watching Lou Dobbs then jumping his shit on the commerical break talking about how he's kowtowing to his parent company's customers. That cannot happen. It happens all the time on blogs. They might as well regulate the watercooler. Blogger's who shill get shellacked and lose the trust of the readers. Corporate Media is a shill period and, unfortunately, loses no trust because of it. Peace, Ron Watson http://k9disc.blip.tv http://k9disc.com http://discdogradio.com http://pawsitivevybe.com On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Adrian Miles wrote: > two wrongs don't make a right and if you want this to happen to > perhaps the best way is bottom up, so if bloggers acted ethically then > I think you are in a much stronger position to ask and expect it of > others. But if someone won't do it until the other does then you've > got exactly the issues we face with nuclear weapons, global warming > etc where one side will not actually do the ethical thing simply > because someone else won't either. > > On 09/10/2009, at 3:28 AM, Ron Watson wrote: > > > I'd like to see disclosure on the Today Show when one of NBC's > > musicians performs, or when a movie comes out that they review that > > was produced by a GE subsidiary. > > > > I'd like to see disclosure on large clients of GE, or reporting on > > investments of GE Finance on CNBC. > > > > I'd like to see disclosure on Pentagon PR hacks doing their daily > > rounds on the Sunday shows. > > > > Disclosure of ADM as an advertiser on stories about GM foods from > > every network. > > cheers > Adrian Miles > adrian.mi...@rmit.edu.au > Program Director, Bachelor of Communication Honours > vogmae.net.au > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
