Knock Me Over With a Feather. Business Week Has a Correction

I guess this gets me out of my homework assignment. It looks like you've gotten to the right people, namely Steven Baker himself.

Congrats on getting the correction. It's good to see that Business Week is so open, and that Steven Baker is an honest and honorable journalist.

The funniest part of this story that you achieved what you had advised to your client, i.e. 'do something controversial" to drive traffic to this site :-)

Aha! I knew it. I knew you never said any such thing. I knew the reporter took it out of context. I knew...well, the point is: journalists for big publications, i.e. The NY Times, Businessweek, Time, etc, are NOT completely unbiased. They come with their own opinions and often add them to their writing -- with full approval of their editors.

Hence, the continued discourse on whether or not bloggers, who are open, transparent (I'm beginning to hate that term) and honest in their writing, are journalists...when the so-called standard is being objective, should be laid to rest here. Journalists write what they're paid to write...and they're hired because their writing expresses their opinion so well, and because it happens to gel with the editor's opinion, or the publication's stand on whatever issue is being written about.

When I read the Businessweek article (just yesterday) my jaw dropped and I had to shake my head. Obviously, the reporter (why should I name him, he's already received too much blog attention, IMHO) instilled HIS own feelings into the article, because no way would YOU advise a client to, "Create a scandal." Hmmph!

Many of us look to your blog as the highest of high when it comes to blog standards. WE knew he was lying. Glad to see he posted a correction, but...I'm mad as hell that he had to.

Now, can we do that email interview for Lip-sticking??