So, she writes in her column:

The difference between a journalist and a blogger is that journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines that govern the freedom of speech. And whatever a journalist chooses to write about—be it popular or unpopular—we do not hide behind an anonymous name and are resigned to the fact that we have to take as much as we dish out.

Ummmm… “journalists have to adhere to certain guidelines”. Have to adhere is not the same thing as saying they do adhere. Besides, what’s there to brag about if you’re a journalist especially if you’re in the Lifestyle section? Many Lifestyle writers regularly receive freebies from corporate publicists and these publicists’ clients get written about in the newspapers. Is that something to be proud about? The prostitution of journalism?

On the other hand, the same gimmick is being done by bloggers and so many are taking on the self-righteous attitude. Some of these bloggers were the noisiest during the previous Malu Fernandez brouhaha.

Same shit, different medium. Don’t tell me it’s right when journalists do it and wrong when bloggers engage in the same.

And, actually, some journalists use pseudonyms. Conrado de Quiros is not the writer’s real name, for instance.

The condescending attitude is really off.

She also writes:

But blogging, aside from Perez Hilton and the other big time bloggers (you know who you are) is for me a slacker job or a medium and pastime for lonely people to connect.

Weeelllll… Perez Hilton is not exactly my standard of big time blogging unless one makes no distinction between quantity of viewers and quality of output. But then again, that’s just me. And, apparently, Malu and I have different standards.

Oh, and yes, I am a big time blogger, Malu, but never in the Perez Hilton context. Puhleeeez.

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