Another week, another dust up in the swamp of confluence between the blogosphere and corporate media. This time the Washington Post gets smacked for hiring a right-wingnut blogger who turned out to be a plagiarist.
As Jeff Jarvis rightly points out, the Post, once again, handles its rubber-gloved rubbing up against the blogosphere clumsily, and provides more evidence that it just doesn’t get it:
“You don’t have to hire them anymore. This is the distributed age, remember? And here’s the fringe benefit: When they F up, you’re not responsible for them. You just link to another. Cool, huh? It’s called the web.”
There’s a lot—a whole lot—of deep information in that bit that would benefit all publishers, independent or corporate.
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