In a Q&A on the Freaknomics blog (recently moved to the NYTimes), Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster says that newspapers are unfairly taking aim at the classified ad community:
We've been hearing increasingly from newspaper reporters who confide that they are only allowed to write negative stories about Craigslist these days, because we're viewed as competition by their newspaper's business managers.
Valleywag smells paranoia. "I'm catching a faint whiff of bullshit. It's a good story for Buckmaster to tell -- but is it true?" Although Owen Thomas doesn't have much nice to say about journalists:
Given reporters' propensities for spreading gossip and taking self-righteous stands, I'd think we'd have heard of someone quitting their jobs in protest over such a ham-handed move by a newspaper publisher.
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