Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Monday, October 5, 2009

The FTC and bloggers

Commentary By Ron Beasley

The new FTC Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials includes bloggers.  It's probably necessary and probably won't impact us here at Newshoggers or at least it shouldn't.  OK, I will now tell you when I received a free book from a publisher for one of my reviews.  I won't accept a book for review unless I'm interested in the subject and I'll tell you what's wrong with it if anything.  But like all things regulatory there is always the danger the regulators might get carried away.  Jeff Jarvis wonders about Google Ads:

And what about automated ads, such as those from Google? I have been
writing nice things about my treatment at Sloan Kettering. This has
caused ads to come up on my blog, via Google, from the hospital.
Presuming someone clicked on them, I�ve made money from the hospital.
Does that taint what I say or me if I don�t disclose the payment?
That�s the level of absurdity this can reach.

OK, I suspect that Jeff is a bit paranoid but what if the powers that be don't like what your saying?  Something to think about.



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