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SOURCE: I’VE BEEN PERSONALLY OVERRULED WHEN IT COMES TO CREDITING STORIES
In a post last week thanking ABC News Columbia for giving The Palmetto Scoop credit on our exclusive “Campbell weighing another bid for Lt. Gov.” story, I made a small fuss over the fact that it’s nearly impossible for bloggers to get credit from the mainstream media for breaking a story.
Well, that post apparently reverberated deep within South Carolina’s MSM establishment, where an insider wrote to tell me that the problem is much larger and more deliberate than I could have imagined:
Not everyone in TV believes bloggers shouldn’t be given credit… [but] I’ve been personally over-ruled when it comes to “crediting” stories on the tube.
There is a mindset to confirm stories seen in other media (including blogs) and then not credit the original source… Just thought I’d let you know not everyone in the business agrees with how things are handled.
This news doesn’t really surprise me, although I had always pinned the lack of respect on laziness as opposed to a premeditated crusade to steal acclaim. Thankfully, it’s good to see that there are people within the MSM hierarchy who disagree with this unknown de facto policy.
Now, I’ll admit bloggers like myself aren’t perfect when it comes to giving credit where credit is due. But I at least try to make a conscious effort to acknowledge someone’s work if I plan to use it or incorporate it in a story.
Someone needs to give the media — especially television — a little slap on the wrist.
Bloggers are “We the People”. Bloggers represent the voice and the consciousness of America. The media needs to get over the fact that they and their corporate bosses ignore big stories for reasons only the media and bosses know.Bloggers talk about everything. Bloggers don’t report to corporate America so the media makes blogging a ” problem”. But hang on media, bloggers are the people who watch you, buy the products you promote, wear your t shirts, come to the festivals you sponsor, remember? The media doesn’t particularly like the fact bloggers have opinions. They most certainly don’t like the fact we have brains, do research and show them up by pointing out the media’s flaws, untruths, half truths and lies. I trust blogs for information far more than regular news outlets these days…. guess that is a problem ey?
If MSM admitted we were credible and gave us credit for the stories they scoop from us, it would break their monopoly over their audiences, as well as reveal that today’s MSM types aren’t the hard-working, deep-digging journalists of years past.
Don’t feel special because you’re a blogger. TV and radio have a decades-old tradition of stealing stories from print and pretending they came up with them on their own, giving no credit where it’s due. You should focus on getting credit in print, where it might actually happen.