Comments on: I am a big money blogger, relatively speaking

By: Darren Daz cox

Darren Daz cox — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:04:58 +0000

It’s not whoring to sell advertising and you are not obligated to shill but deep down, once you have grown accustomed to the money you will be wary of rocking the boat, not your brave conscious mind that would never sacrifice journalistic integrity for crass filthy lucre, but the subconscious.

The subconscious doesn’t care about what other people think, it just cares about what you need. It will be directing your decisions the way it does for all your other needs, that’s why junkies will drift to prostitution rather than cleaning up because the drugs provide a need and the subconscious modifies the conscious so that the needs of the flesh are met.

Money, especially money from your own hard work, provides creature comfort and ego gratification, it would hurt to lose that money so the subconscious would subtly influence any decisions that your conscious mind will make. Probably won’t mean anything much in the long run but it’s possible!

By: Billy Dennis

Billy Dennis — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:15:08 +0000

Thanks for the comment. It is certainly provocative.

You argue that the more sponsors I have the less freedom I will have. The contrary is true. The more advertisers, the less beholden I am (theoretically speaking) I am to any one of them.

Of course, a whore is a whore, no matter how many johns she (or he) sees on any one given day.

By: Darren Daz cox

Darren Daz cox — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:47:54 +0000

yeah, and yet the more sponsors you have the less freedom you have to really say the truth as you would feel obligated to ‘protect’ your sponsors. There’s a threshold, in my opinion, where freedom of speech/press meets the corporate bottom line, newspapers and tv have long ago crossed the line to where advertising directs the content.
I’d hate to see that happen on a blog, because once a blog becomes encrusted with advertising it is most likely unable to to be totally honest because, as you said PP, if you can make a living off it you “win” (because the more money the less of a ’sap’ you are I gather).