Originally Posted by
sbm12
Which of the blogs should be allowed to write about this news? And which should not?
Boarding Area is just a distribution platform for a bunch of independent authors, not an editorial platform with rules about what gets posted or by whom. And more of my traffic comes from non-BA sources than from BA. So why wouldn't I write about whatever stories I think are interesting (or that I think my readers would enjoy my views on) regardless of what the other BA writers are pushing? From my perspective more of my readers likely aren't seeing that other content.
I think it is annoying to see essentially the same headline across the site when that happens, but there's no good solution I've come up with short of an editorial control that would never work.
It was just an example of the fetishization of Etihad by many Boarding Area blogs. In terms of news items, this particular item received disproportionate coverage, and, on some, with a tone that made it seem like no laptops on Etihad was the great social injustice of our time and now we are free.
I think there are 2 categories of critiques of Boarding Area: (1) those of the business itself (its lack of any editorial/ethical standards for its bloggers; its constant addition of new terribly written, contentless blogs) and (2) those of the content of BA blogs, particularly where there is a clear pattern.