On March 22, I waxed eloquent about the legitimacy of blogging. However, it seems that the people at EurekAlert! remain unconvinced. Despite the fact that I’m a regular contributor to multiple print and online health media outlets and host of LivelyWomen.com, I’ve been denied access to embargoed news through EurekAlert!.
According to my denial letter, “access is provided only for on-staff and freelance reporters, editors or producers employed by accredited news media outlets.” Well, last time I checked, b5media was a global media network, but apparently that’s not good enough… Nor is my freelance work for a national medical practice journal published by an internationally acclaimed medical association. I’m sorry, but if this doesn’t meet the criteria, what does?
Also denied: Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei of Genetics and Health (read about it here and here).
Read discussion on the topic and some comments from the EurekAlert! people here at The Panda’s Thumb.
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The dark side of professional blogging is referenced within the following post. Kind of interesting:
http://bigheaddc.com/2007/04/13/in-solidarity-bhdc-joins-the-blogger-happy-hour-boycott/
There’s an uproar in the South African blogosphere about the merits of blogging. David Bullard, a columnist with the Sunday Times (national paper) started it here
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/Columnists/DavidBullard/Article.aspx?id=452352
Reponses include this
http://vincentmaher.com/mit/?p=347#comment-28466 and that
http://constitutionallyspeakingsa.blogspot.com/2007/05/david-bullard-hits-nail-on-head.html
Now the issue has become a news story in itself.