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Fighting Mad - Update

  • Apr. 28th, 2008 at 2:02 PM
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Regarding my previous entry about blogcritics changing my article title without notifying me, I received an explanation:

"This was all brought to a head when a directly involved party contested aspects of the article, especially the tone of the title. Hence the change."

In other words, Sun or someone else involved made a request (probably through their attorney) and blogcritics caved rather than face legal action.  Obviously, the first amendment doesn't mean much there.

*sigh*  Why is the world full of cowards?  Obviously, integrity and standing by your writers and the truth aren't values that blogcritics upholds. 

Comments

[info]poohbearray wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 02:47 am (UTC)
That's bullshit. They may have had the right to change the title, but they sure as hell didn't have the principle.

Money talks....
[info]joedogboi wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 03:07 am (UTC)
I know. It sucks. I have to continue working with them, because I need the exposure to jump start my freelance career again, but I'll be careful not to push the wrong buttons there from now on, and leave the actual real Journalism to sites and print publications that can handle it. When I can start working for the big boys, I'll definitely revisit this whole topic. In the meantime, I've sicced a real journalist friend of mine on Sun. Hehe.
[info]strongaxe wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 11:26 am (UTC)
What is your relationship with blogcritics?
[info]joedogboi wrote:
Apr. 29th, 2008 11:29 am (UTC)
I just write for them. No real relationship at all. I write an editorial about once a week, and handle review material when I see something that interests me. (Currently, for example, I'm reading Head First Javascript for Review purposes.)

It's a non paying gig. But they have such a large readership (currently 50,000 hits per day), It's a good way to get back in front of many eyeballs.

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