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Are Bloggers Parasites?

August 16, 2005

I read Judge Posner’s article entitled “Bad News” in the New York Times about media in general.  There’s a portion there where he discusses bloggers and the threat they pose to traditional media.  He also calls bloggers “parasites” for taking content from traditional media without paying for it. Then they have the temerity to criticize conventional media.  Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.

I’m guilty of this.  I link to media sources all the time.  I just did it now — to the New York Times, no less.  And I don’t pay them a centavo (assuming I knew what it looked like). 

But am I a ‘parasite’?  For that matter, fellow blogger, are you? (more…)

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