'Parasites' find a champion

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Try as we might, it seems we can't escape the idea that bloggers are parasites. We certainly don't like the notion since we count ourselves among the ranks of those seeking out new...

What is a blogger ?

A blogger is someone who writes a blog. A blog full of things you personally find interesting. And you write it (hopefully) in an intereseting way.

A blog is "Content", that is to say , it is the reason you got on the internet in the first place. You want to read the news, the news is "content" the ads around the news filling the same page are just ads that pay to have the web site up. You want to read so and so's blog , so you put up with the ad's on it to read because you always think he has something interesting to say. Or at least amusing.

To call any form of "content" a parasite is to simply be mis-informed. Or to be "The competition". If you are a news reporter , for example, and the bloggers are always getting there first and making you look bad ... well thats the way life goes.

I suppose you might make a case that my blog is a parasite, since I comment on news stories. But it would be a poor case. I quote only a small part of the article and put a linke back to the original , and then give my own opinion on the matter, which is usually different than what the article is saying.

Such as a reporter puts an article up in the news paper , and the next day you send the newspaper a letter quoting part of it and stating you totally disagree this is why etc etc...

Newspapers are parasites.
Why ?
Because they have to make most of their money from advertising. And guess what ? Leon's pays a lot of money to you for ad's , and suddenly you find dirt on them , and if you run the article you lose this well paying customer ? You are corrupted from the get go. You are Pro-Business, especially any business that buys ad space off of you, and you claim to be neutril.

Money talks. And the newspapers rake it in.
But the blogger gets not a penny , he's in it for the fun. He's the only true "unslanted" writer out there.

Parasite indeed.
Accusations from the grave, from a dying industry that knows it's end is coming.