| Is it Ok for bloggers to accept gifts from the companies that they blog about? |
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Is it Ok for bloggers to accept gifts from the companies that they blog about?
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Asked 263 days ago
by StudiousSam  New Zealand |
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Is it OK when your doctor receives cash bonuses and trips to Disneyworld in exchange for prescribing a new, poorly tested drug? (okay, you are not American so don't have to worry about that as much. But in principle, how would you feel?)
If you are going to accept bribes, no matter what they are called, you should say so when blogging.
Bloggers are not news people. They like to SAY they are, but they are not. Anyone with a computer can be a blogger.
Even though the newspapers are disappearing, I think we'll still see people gravitate to those same newspaper's websites for their news. They've just got to keep promoting themselves as LEGITIMATE news sources to help people weed through the opinion-piece-without-evidence free-speech artists.