I Bought Votes on Digg

Wired by Annalee Newitz | Mar. 2, 2007 (News Report)

[Disclosure: Author Annalee Newitz works for Wired, whose parent company, Conde Nast, also owns Reddit, a Digg competitor]
It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping. A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough diggs to make the "popular" list on the tech/design page, and several people were commenting on it.

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Francis Pisani
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 by Francis Pisani - Oct. 1, 2008

I am taken aback by the fact that this can be promoted as an example of "good journalism". The story is wonderful, and fascinating, but it comes from the company that owns Digg's competition, reddit. The disclaimer is there... but is it enough? It is a good story, it certainly is "good competition", but its ethical grounds seem to be shaky.Can this be "good journalism"?

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