March 15th, 2007
Attack of the Show Attacks Digg’s Cred
Last night, AOTS called Digg’s credibility into question with this segment on social media. In doing so, they hosted a panel discussion with experts Annalee Newitz of Wired and David Ewalt from Forbes.com. Annalee recently made waves with an exposé on how she bought votes on Digg.
What they fail to disclose in between jabs at Digg’s credibility is that Wired is owned by Condé Nast, which also owns Digg competitor Reddit. They assert that they made efforts to include Digg in the panel discussion, but Digg declined. The result is a pretty one-sided discussion about how Digg is no better than such news sources as - get this - Fox News.
Next up, Coke calls Pepsi’s deliciousness into question.
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