Originally Posted by
Flamenguista
I think that's the nature of all these blogs. They work hard at the beginning by writing useful articles and keeping the fluff to a minimum. Once the clicks, ad space, and referrals pick up and the revenue increases, the integrity goes out the window, and the blood $ starts to roll in.
I criticize them, though I still find these blogs useful and interesting. It's just that we have to sift through the multitude of scams and ........ to find the readable articles (whether they were stolen from others or not). What I have started to enjoy is the depths to which they will justify pushing horrible cards and giving horrible advice. It's almost like a "who will push the integrity lower today" game.
Integrity in modern public communications? That's so passé in an era when post-factual types and "fake news" generators and peddlers have been publicly rewarded so substantially by so many. The bloggers can't all be unaware of the audience.
While I may find that the bloggers don't all get what they deserve, I do find that the audience fully gets what the audience deserves and is fully responsible for being such a prime target market for modern public communications regardless of integrity.