Forbes Calls Bloggers Lynch Mobs

Earlier tonight I was on a four-minute segment on CNBC that largely focused on Forbes' new cover story ... - bugmenot login/password "forbesdontbug" worked for me. The article's author, Daniel Lyons, was in our interview group. The gist of Lyons' soon-to-be maligned story is that blogs are "the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective." If that's not bad enough they also squarely put the blame here on Google and Yahoo as our "potent allies." It's so ridiculous that two companies that have done so much to democratize media are being chastised for it. Forbes, I am very disappointed that you chose to take such an unbalanced POV when Fortune told us both sides of the story. With all respect to Lyons and the magazine's editors, bloggers are not Corporate America's Naked Conversations, you would have seen both sides of the story. My message to Corporate America is simple. Don't listen to Forbes. Take a look around the blogosphere for yourself and you will find real humans - good, bad and ugly. What do you know? It's just like in the Reader Comments... Senior Vice President with Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.