Posted on 04/18/2011 1:15:00 PM PDT by Kaslin
>I am Editor-in-Chief of The Blaze today in large part because I was a blogger who did stories that Glenn Beck featured on his radio and TV shows.
Before joining the Beck team I always found, of all the shows and sites in the wide world of web news, that Glenn was the most generous in terms of saying thank you, of giving credit, and of making mention on air when possible. He’s promoted (and even hired) and amazing number of bloggers and writers.
So it’s through that lens that I look at the claims in a new story posted by The Daily Caller that is a collection of accusations that Glenn gives insufficient credit to stories turned up by a variety of bloggers and websites.
I certainly understand the frustrations of any writer or blogger who feels their contributions are being slighted. It’s happened to me hundreds of times!
At The Blaze we link and cite hundreds of news and blog sites each week. It’s been a major part of Glenn’s push to do just that.
Later today I’ll have a much more detailed response to the charges and what may be motivating them (is this connected to our review of James O‘Keefe’s NPR video?). Check back here in a few hours.
We are amused that Glenn is accused (in a factually-flawed way) of co-opting the phrase, “The Truth Has No Agenda” from his friend Mike Opelka. Mike is indeed a writer for The Blaze (as the article notes), but has worked collaboratively on projects with Mike since the 1980′s — indeed Glenn was the best man in Mike’s wedding. More on that later too!
In the meantime, here is a quick montage we put together of Glenn promoting the work of various blogs in the past year or so:
Because most bloggers are irresponsible flatulent misfits hoping for blog hits.
Many use Free Republic as an advertising platform, the scummy pukes.
Beck paid for the Truth Has No Agenda line.
or maybe beck is stingy with giving credit where credit is due
Yeah I know, but I refuse to go to their site
E.g., Beck utters "Cloward-Piven" a lot. When has he ever uttered "James Simpson?"
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FTFY:
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Or is The Blaze modeled after the Huffington Post?
..say like Michelle Malkin for one? ..or Brent Bozell at Newsbusters?
Nice. Scott Baker asks this question on The Blaze, then disallows comments, so it won’t be answered where he asks.
Why don’t you post the full content from GulagBound?
Wanting some hits? Using FR as an advertising platform?
Not really. Should there be?
I'm hardly unbiased and should not be involved in the vetting process.
ROFLOLOLOLOL!
“Because most bloggers are irresponsible flatulent misfits hoping for blog hits.”
[Wrong!, it’s because they don’t like others stealing their material they worked hard on, and without so much as proper attribution to boot.]
“Many use Free Republic as an advertising platform, the scummy pukes.”
[The owners of Freerepublic have appreciation for the work and contribution to the conservative cause made by bloggers.]
[Get a life!]
“The owners of Freerepublic have appreciation for the work and contribution to the conservative cause made by bloggers.”
Surely. How nice of you to speak for them.
Saves them the bother, eh?
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2636843/posts?page=552#552
Believe it or not, once upon a time vanities were frowned upon by our participants. FR’s original format was established to not only fight for liberty and against government abuse/corruption, etc, but to criticize the liberally biased mainstream media. Therefore our original format was to post from valid NEWS sources and government reports, etc, and to tear them down where deserved. Vanity posters were shunned (unless they were very good).
Then a few years ago the blogger craze started. At first, most of them were treated simply as vanities and were pulled or zotted on sight. Eventually some were accepted as valid material on FR. And soon the blogger wars commenced. To allow blogs or not to allow blogs was the question. Can’t go blanket either way. Like it or not, some blogs are better than most others.
So, long story short, we created a special forum for blog posts. This was in lieu of simply deleting all blog posts. The theory was that as long as they were posted in the bloggers forum, those who didn’t wish to read them could simply click on the “news” forum and they wouldn’t see them. But, of course, as some blogs are definitely better than most others and some are much better than your typical mainstream news sources, we soon allowed certain blogs to be posted regularly to the news section.
This all worked more or less to a certain degree without too much friction until the non-commenting, short-excerpting, long-complaining blog pimp was born.
I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.
If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.
Furthermore, I’m not big on “rules.” You won’t see me posting rules for bloggers. The rules for bloggers on FR are the same as the rules for everyone else. If you are a good conservative activist and are willing to work with US on OUR goals and causes and not against US, then you’re welcome to post to FR. But unless we say otherwise your blog material should be posted to our bloggers forum and it would be best if you do not excerpt your own material and if you would actually join in on the discussion here on FR. We’re not really that interested in driving OUR traffic to YOUR blog. But if our readers see that you post useful information then they might start reading your site and that’s fine by me.
552 posted on Tuesday, December 07, 2010 4:06:19 PM by Jim Robinson
Glenn who?
If I wanted to disrupt and cripple FreeRepublic.com (and therefore hurt the conservative, Americanist movement) I would likely do essentially, what he does.
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