Blogger ethics

Blogger dirty laundry is all over the place this weekend (see here, here and here), so I suppose it's worth comment. It all started with this WSJ piece, which the conservative echo chamber quickly picked up as a way to rebut the Armstrong Williams debacle. Zephyr may have a point, but she pretty clearly told a fib to the writers at the Wall Street Journal. I suspect whatever support Zephyr may have been trying garner for her cause has been lost by her irresponsible words to the Journal. In short, pretty much everyone dislikes her at this point, regardless of the work she did 'back in the day' for Dean.

I'll admit, it was annoying when Kos would shill for Dean and right under the website logo was a thing saying, "I do technical work for Howard Dean." Perhaps it should have lead more Kos readers to openly question his views on the primary campaign and the other candidates (particularly his wildly innaccurate predictions and opinions on the daily political to and fro), but that's a discussion for another time. Quite clearly, Markos and Jerome did nothing wrong (Jerome, afterall, shuttered mydd.com for the months he worked for Dean).

All this aside, it's got to be good for blogger business to stir-up a controversy now and then. Since Tough Enough is just a mino in the blogger sea, it's kind of amusing to watch the big guys get all worked up about themselves.

UPDATE: It seems that the only one with an ethical problem would be Zephyr, for claiming the campaign was paying Markos and Jerome to say good things about Dean and doing nothing to stop it.