Never mind about excluding the date in posts. I found the exclude date plugin.

Don’t know if you remember me but you helped me with blogging a few years ago – I bought your program and learned a lot. WordPress sure has smoked out MT, yes? Hope you’ve recovered all the difficulties in your past and are happy, loving life, your daughter and every day! Thanks. Carole

Nope. I am not into PayPerPost. I am not into blogging for someone else. If I blog, I want to be creating content, traffic and profits for myself.

It’s been a long while since I last contacted you but I kept your site and am interested in blogging. There are quite a few programs out there but I wanted to contact you first.

Please contact me via email.

Talk to you soon.

Rob Cochran

Hell they won’t even admit that they are liberally biased!”

It is good to see that someone else besides myself actually views the reporting delivered by certain venues of the mainstrem media, as being, well, just a bit slanted to the left.

And you are spot on here in terms of admission of guilt. That is why, like him or hate him, Mr. Limbaugh dubs them the “drive by media”

Write a story, print it, don’t do much in terms of fact checking, and if it happens to be inaccurate, or someone getst hurt in the verbal cross fire, we’ll just move onto the next headline. When there is a retraction it is always buried in the deepest part of newspaper..

Even when some media titans find misdeeds among their own ranks, they are quick to report what happened, but not forth coming with taking blame or apology..

Jayson Blair, who’s reporting amounted to lies and deception – found the Times not much in a “mea culpa” mood toward the general public.

They never really apologized to their readership for any of it. I might have missed it if they did, so let me apologize in advance.

This Times story (below) explaining the incident. I wish someone over there understood the meaning of brevity. I could have explained
in three pages and not ten.

It is the usual rambling diatribe of reporting that the Times engages in. It’s focus is mainly about the the inaccurate reporting, of Jason Blair’s inaccurate reporting. Follow me? (LOL!).

CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception
http://tinyurl.com/2nxao8

In addition to the print media being called on the carpet, NBC and Dan Rather got into some hot water over the now infamous “memo gate”

It took a blogger to notice that the supposed paperwork trail showing Bush to have a series of “no shows” from his National Guard days was created in Word Doc..

Bloggers do make mistakes and not everyone will be 100% accurate all the time. But, over the past couple of years I have seen more instances of net journalists “accurately calling out inaccuracies” by the Kings of commercial broadcast and print media.

I think that the Grey Lady, as well as network news has become too idealogoically driven and that has a tendency to alienate certain readers with their obvious bias..

I use to love reading the NYT, but after over 30 plus front page stories on the “Abu Ghraib” prisoner scandal, I had had enough. We get it, you don’t like the war and George Bush.

New York Times Streak of Page One Stories on Abu Ghraib ends at 32 Days!
http://tinyurl.com/3bw6a7

It harkened back to the days when they just harped on George Bush’s father about the economy.

Day after day, front page stories about how bad it was. Funny, happy days suddenly returned when Bill Clinton was President. I also got sick of hearing about his personal piccadilos as well.

I don’t see big media going away anytime soon. And just like video did not kill the radio star, both the blogosphere and commerical media will exist side by side – at least for now..

As the netroot journalists take a stronger hold, and keep providing real or perceived truthfullness to their reporting – the authorative news voices of established media will be weakened, and their days, numbered..

Robert C.

Before blogs were the sacred cows of content, earlier debates focused on whether or not the Internet should even become available to the masses, leaping beyond the confines of the University and Defense communities.

And, even when it did make the jump to commercialization, the debate then turned to whether or not a “for profit” model should even exist for software and other intellectual property. Everything on the “net”, as the advocates noted, should be “free”.

The flood of for profit products and services available on the world wide web today, has totally crushed that point of view.

It may still exist in some circles, but, no longer will you find alot of discussion about whether the Internet should become a capitalist venue.

I think the same thing will happen to the
“should we make money from blogs” debate, if the tide is not already turning.

Just about every blog I come across today has some form of “for profit” advertising, or affiliate program attached to it. There are so many new advertising programs that are geared toward bloggers these days, that it is hard to resist.

The “blogosphere” will always be room for purists and profiteers alike. Personally, I would not develop a blog unless I could
“captialize it” to the hilt.

Blogging about a particular topic you have an earnest interest in is a good thing. But, without the “dash for cash” it would not hold my attention long.

Bottom line, I agree that discussing the prospect of “whether or not” you should be making money from the blogosphere is a bit ridiculous to say the least.

They should have had a discussion on what the best ways to monetize their blogs, not the ethics of whether or not it is breaking some imaginary public trust, or moral code.

JohnChow.com could set anyone straight about making money from blogging, and the ways to do it.

As time goes on, the blogosphere will evolve from a sort of “arthouse” mentality to more of an Entreprenurial mindset. And the discussion enumierated in this post, will, someday, just be a nostalgic “remember when” discussion of the past.

Thats my rant..

Captialist and proud..

Robert..

I’ve recently started writing paid posts on my blogs. I did struggle with the issue for a while. But I finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing wrong with writing paid posts as long as I disclosed that I was receiving money for the posts, and as long as the paid posts didn’t outnumber the free ones.