Guide For Mainstream Media In Dealing With Bloggers

BLOGGERS GUIDE SURE TO ENLIGHTEN MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Matt Ufford of WITH LEATHER hops over to AOL FANHOUSE and pens this handy guide to the mainstream media in understanding bloggers:

Mainstream Media Blogger


The cause for this manifesto came from a Sports Illustrated writer taking an uncredited P. Diddy quote from a blogger. The catch to this online theft was that Diddy’s draft-day musings were fake:

SI fake quote


The SI misquote is now gone, replaced with an apology at the end of the story. And here’s the original blog post by Miss Gossip where the P. Diddy line was lifted.