I don't think it's from FR, just a few of the posters.
Try not to assign motives to the whole based upon a few.
If the article is well written and pertinent, I don’t care who wrote it.
Even it's from someone pushing their own material?
Even if they are tapping into FR's traffic to make money?
I’m actually supportive of alternative media
Well, what we've got so far is a bunch of dirty-shorts
mooks ripping off MSM material and re-writing it in such
a way as to get you to click on it.
Me, I don't see rewarding them as being a good thing.
So first you get mad that they’re ‘pushing their own material’ then you get mad that they’re ‘ripping off MSM material and re-writing it in such a way as to get you to click on it.’
Either way, it doesn’t matter to you. If it’s not an MSM article, it’s a dirty ‘blogger’ who needs to be beaten down. If they’re promoting their own material (as any capitalist will do) they suck. If they’re promoting someone else’s material, they’re a dirty blogger that needs to be beaten down.
As I see it, you’re pro MSM and anti free speech and free journalism.
The internet has done more to wrestle the iron grip of propaganda from the MSM than anything in human history. Bloggers have done more to keep the MSM reigned in and tried to keep them honest. This is the greatest human experiment since the foundation of our country and should be encouraged.
And no. I do not - and never have had - a blog. I just get really irritated when I come across an interesting commentary and I’ve got to fight past the ‘blog pimp’ accusations before I can debate the actual content.
Please don’t forget that many websites that we reference regularly once began as blogs. They gained credibility over time.