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Comments on: Is Patch evil? Someone had to ask, so I did https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/11/03/is-patch-evil-someone-had-to-ask-so-i-did/ Tech. Culture. Journalism. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Web Journalist Blog » Meme Me: Help me with my campaign https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/11/03/is-patch-evil-someone-had-to-ask-so-i-did/#comment-2246 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:54:08 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=927#comment-2246 […] Two years ago I ran and got elected onto the ONA Board of Directors. While I was running, friend Mark Luckie, who is now at Twitter, created this campaign poster based on a Patch incident. […]

]]> By: Brian Jarvis https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/11/03/is-patch-evil-someone-had-to-ask-so-i-did/#comment-97 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:11:10 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=927#comment-97 Didn’t journalists once question if bloggers were “evil” because they could replace paid reporters — held accountable by editors — by nonpaid and likely untrained writers who weren’t held accountable by anyone? For a struggling industry, I’ll say this — at least Patch is hiring.

Plaguarism charges are not unique to Patch (see NYTimes Jayson Blair. Is the NYTimes evil?). Working long hours certainly deserves scrutiny, but wouldn’t anyone signing on to a dot.com startup expect to work crazy hours? I know I would. Does that mean that every dot.com overworking their (paid) employees is by definition evil?

If you ever have the chance to question Arianna Huffington, I hope you ask her too if her outfit is “evil” because they don’t pay journalists and hold up an unpaid model as (scarily) becoming the norm.

]]> By: Interviews from #ONA10 with Smart People « DigiDave https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/11/03/is-patch-evil-someone-had-to-ask-so-i-did/#comment-96 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:50:13 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=927#comment-96 […] to hang out with my friend Robert Hernandez. Robert made a splash this year at ONA when he asked if Patch was evil. This year, however, Robert has made a splash in the journalism Twittersphere when he co-created […]

]]> By: #wjchat – When Journalists converge « RJI https://blog.webjournalist.org/2010/11/03/is-patch-evil-someone-had-to-ask-so-i-did/#comment-95 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:57:16 +0000 http://blog.webjournalist.org/?p=927#comment-95 […] to hang out with my friend Robert Hernandez. Robert made a splash this year at ONA when he asked if Patch was evil. This year, however, Robert has made a splash in the journalism Twittersphere when he co-created […]

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