Jerome Armstrong of MyDD posts a defence of activist blogging against the "campus blogethicists" who criticised him and Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos for taking paid roles with the Howard Dean campaign. He argues that he is at war in a politicl arena with a Republican machine that will do whatever it takes to win and, as such, should only be accountable to US election laws. Meanwhile, Moulitsas does not believe that journalistic principles of financial disclosure should apply to people who do not make their living from their writing. He says he has his own rules but "anyone that tries to tell me how to act will get a big middle finger shoved up their face." Both would probably hate for their posts to be thought of in this way, but they are powerful additions to the debate on how bloggers conduct themselves. I'm sure campus blogethicists (meeting in Harvard this weekend - not all know why) are studying them now.
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