{"id":1706,"date":"2007-02-08T10:31:13","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/more_blogger_et\/"},"modified":"2007-02-08T10:31:13","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T10:31:13","slug":"more_blogger_et","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/08\/more_blogger_et\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE BLOGGER ETHICS THOUGHTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Women_and_workjpg\"<\/a> THIS IS FROM MORRA’S  VERY FINE AND ALWAYS THOUGHTFUL WOMEN AND WORK<\/a> BLOG, IN A POST ENTITLED:  "With all due respect Cindy."  Comments are closed on this post so I’m quoting her post here and then posting a response.  <\/p>\n

MORRA:  "First off, I don\u2019t have a Typekey account, so I am going to do a trackback instead.
Cindy Samuels, who is brilliant, is wrong on <\/em>this post<\/em><\/a>:"<\/em>
\u201cOne of my favorite bloggers sent me a note asking my opinion about a service that pays bloggers to  write about client products.  It\u2019s not secret, the writers disclose their contracts.  Even so, I told her that as an old newsie, I thought that, unless she was desperate for money, she shouldn\u2019t go near the idea.  WHY?\u201d
AFTER THE QUOTE, SHE ADDED"Journalists do endorsements, why can\u2019t I? Not that anyone\u2019s asking,<\/em> of course."<\/em><\/p>\n

Morra, who unlike me really IS brilliant, asks a fair question.  But I don’t think reputable journalists endorse products.  They don’t do commercials and use their own language to sell products.  If they are busy selling in the context of their coverage – or we are, in the context of our blogs, then why should anyone believe us about anything?  How do they know which things are paid for and which are not?  When is a blog a blog and when does it become solely a marketing tool?  <\/p>\n

I may be showing my age, since I was trained as a reporter long ago, but I shudder to think of the consequences of putting PAID ad copy into a post.  Let’s keep this conversation going – I respect Morra too much to do anything but think harder about this…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

THIS IS FROM MORRA’S  VERY FINE AND ALWAYS THOUGHTFUL WOMEN AND WORK BLOG, IN A POST ENTITLED:  "With all due respect Cindy."  Comments are closed on this post so I’m quoting her post here and then posting a response.  MORRA:  "First off, I don\u2019t have a Typekey account, so I am going to do a … Continue reading MORE BLOGGER ETHICS THOUGHTS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,51,52],"tags":[734,830,542,2348],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-webtech","category-weblogs","tag-advertising","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-commercialism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-rw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}