Comments on: Huffington Forges Clooney Blog Post

By: Preston

Preston — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 18:54:28 +0000

Well, Robbie, if that’s your beef- I actually don’t have a problem with Huffington’s ‘people’ compiling Clooney’s actual words into a blog entry. This is a more authentic ‘voice’ than you get from anyone who uses a speechwriter or a ghost writer- both widely considered acceptable.

On an unrelated note: you might find this discription of the work of Media Matters to be interesting: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2006/03/17/publiceye/entry1414928.shtml

It captures much of my feelings about the ‘bias’ of the media.

By: dianne

dianne — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:51:03 +0000

Who cares? He looks good but I could care less what he says, much less Huffinpuffer. heehee

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:58:04 +0000

I don’t think what Huffington did was enethical (come on, where talking about blogging), so much as it was dishonest and deceptive.

The intent of the posting was to make it look as if George Clooney wrote that Blog post, much the way 99% of Huffington’s other bloggers do.

By: Preston

Preston — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 18:26:49 +0000

I was willing to agree that Huffington had acted unethically until I read the piece. It seems clear that it’s the publicist mistakenly gave George Clooney’s ‘permission’ for the pieces to be combined into a blog entry.

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