Time for another blogger ethics panel.
Back in the good old days of blogging when reporters were Oh So Concerned with the idea that maybe some blogger would have some sort of undisclosed conflict of interest, I actually had to point out to one that their op-ed contributors don't exactly have their conflicts vetted and disclosed to the degree that they keep demanding of bloggers.
The "blogger ethics panel" joke came about because journalists would have panels on such subjects, and in the process come up with absurd standards for bloggers which didn't exist, either in theory or practice, for anyone else in the universe. Because we were that important and powerful and... rich, oh yes, rich.
