Last week I broke this story. It was nice that within the space of two an a half hours it was the breaking news on the BBC Newsnight programme, gave me a little bit of warm self contented feeling inside.
It is however curious when one considers the interaction between the mainstream media and those of us in the blogging world. I can’t claim to have read every paper or followed every broadcast but as far as I can tell, the only mainstream media organisation that actually attributed the story to me was the New Statesman.
I’ll admit to not being regular reader of that publication but fair enough to them that their online edition posted a link, for which my referral states have been going quite mad for the last 48 hours or so. Easily outranking any other referrer including Google searches which almost always dominates (usually with some strange search terms I might add) but it’s been nice to have been acknowledged so a hat tip goes out to the New Statesman tonight.
Well done for breaking the story, Penguin.
It’s a shame that, of all the newspapers etc that used it, only one seems to have done the decent thing, and given you due credit. I’m not surprised, though. I’ve been noticing for a while that newpapers are lifting stories from blogs and running them as if they had done all the work themselves. Perhaps they believe that blogs are a free for all thing, where nobody has any rights etc over anything. Strange, really.
It is a pity but I don’t really mind. One of those circumstances where those who know know so that’s OK by me. Apologies for a slow response, I’ve hardly looked at my blog for the past few days, been hideously busy doing other things for which I really should do a post about as a week has gone without me saying a word.