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May 10, 2005
On standards and integrity
As the operator of Minor Tweaks, I must make editorial decisions every day. What, exactly, should I publish? What does the public truly need? What matters to them?
This is a difficult task and one fraught with temptations. For instance, it would be easy for me to, say, pretend that I had inside information about whether Paula Abdul really slept with a contestant on American Idol named Corey Clark. This, despite the fact that I have no such information. Or I could offer a SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEW STARS WARS MOVIE even though that would be inaccurate and misleading. I could even put some words in all caps hoping that this would fool hapless Google searchers into visiting my site. But that would be wrong. Likewise, running a photograph of Tony Danza crashing a go-kart would also be uncalled-for and inappropriate (see above).
Because while sprinkling the names of famous people in the news -- such as Britney Spears, Angelina Jolie, Michael Jackson, George Clooney, Tom DeLay, Renee Zellweger, Kenny Chesney, or Orlando Bloom -- throughout my blog might garner a few extra hits, the question must be asked: at what cost? And then it must be repeated for dramatic effect: at what cost?
Posted by teb at May 10, 2005 01:44 PM