Hey New York Times, you’re four-days late on that editorial. I covered the same subject, and did a better job of it, frankly, on Sunday. Ryan Sager, who for all I know is a fine upstanding person, never makes it clear in his editorial that the distinctive characteristic of Astroturfing is dishonesty. Without that central point, his editorial doesn’t really carry a lot of punch.
What really stung is that Professor Reynolds decided to give the link-love to the frakking Times instead of a fellow blogger. I’m sure he had no idea I even wrote the blog post (but why not? It’s not like he hasn’t linked to me before and I’m well-regarded by people he links to quite a lot) but he should have been. It’s not like I’m asking for an Instalanche a day, but he could do a lot worse than to link to one of my posts each week.
Tags: AstroTurfing, Glenn Reynolds, New York Times
Hey considering how the times manages its facts they must need all the link love they can get.
That’s ok, Jimmie, he ignores me too!