The Walmart/Blogger Issue
My good blogger friend, Brian from Iowa Voice has found himself on the otherside of the NYTimes. He was interviewed in an article about receiving emails from someone within Walmart’s PR division. I don’t know the specifics and I would like to keep it that way.
The question that I’m begging for an answer on is How did the NYTimes get tipped that Walmart PR people were sending articles and links to bloggers? Did some disgruntled blogger happen to contact the NYTimes press room? And why did the NYTimes decide to spend their time following that lead and in turn publishing an article? Wait a sec… it seems the NYTimes did the SAME exact thing they are accusing Brian of doing…
1 Comments so far
1. Brian wrote on March 8th, 2006 at 2:01 am
He got his info from his good friends at WalmartWatch, WakeUpWalmart, etc. Notice how he didn’t disclose that.
As for the article, he misrepresents/misquoted me on virtually everything he attributed to me. The only thing he got right was my name, and I had to spell that for him.
The only thing I will admit being guilty of, is that one sentence in question. I meant for that to be in the quote box, but I didn’t double-check the post. I didn’t notice it until about a week ago, and I was going to edit it, until I found out about this pending article. So I left it, because I knew if I edited it, then somebody would look it up on Google cache and see the change, then accuse me of “covering it up”.
All we got from Manson were links to news articles. That’s it. Articles we would have found on our own, by the way. The commentary and opinion I offered were my own. We weren’t paid, nor were we pressured to write anything at all. In fact, I passed on a number of things I could have wrote about.
Hope that clears things up.