Blog Honour Pledge Redux
A good friend of mine (with apparently better eyesight than my own) over at Push the Third Button Twice made a recent editorial post about a new trend against, in the Blog Herald’s own words, “blogging for money,” which I think should be rewritten to “knowingly blogging biased content for financial gain” (but then I should talk because the Blog Herald is obviously a way more successful blog than mine. I wasn’t even thinking of the word “sensationalism,” why do you mention it?).
MCM (A.K.A. Mr Andrews) suggests that the blogger’s mores already encapsulate this so-called “Honour Pledge” (with or without the ‘u’, as you please), and that the internet will act as a unified force against any foul play on the part of the blogger and disgrace their name (and, presumably, the blgo). My gut reaction is to want to agree with him.