The gloves are off. Jason Calacanis has fired back at Molly Wood of CNET in response to her recent editorial claiming that blogs such as Engadget lack ethics. The letter starts like this:
Molly,We follow the same exact ethical standards as the WSJ, NYT, PBS, and NPR. We do not keep review units and we don't get paid to blog about products. The fact that you're insinuating we do is absolutely false.
Had you taken the time, as a "journalist," to call me or do two minutes of research you would have found this out.
The fact that you're losing scoops has nothing to do with ethics, it has to do with hustle - something you clearly don't have since you couldn't even be bothered to get your facts straight in this editorial.
Jason goes on to ask about the ethics of CNET. It should be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days.
