I’m all for bloggers making it head financially after all that is part of the dream about blogging - being able to make a living doing something we obviously love. So when I saw the post on TechCrunch that Scott Karp’s Publish2 just snag a nice $2.75 million round of funding I was happy for him.

But there was something about the TechCrunch post that for some reason rubbed me the wrong and at first I couldn’t quite figure out what it was. So I sat back with my coffee and reread the post a few times to try and figure out what it was that struck me as wrong. Then I realized that it was this single line in the post

Publish2 will also allow newsrooms to use the service to create customized headline feeds Presumably the quality will be high because only journalists get to vote stories up.

Excuse me but what the hell is this? Suddenly the very roots that Scott has been a part of is no longer good enough or equal to the very thing that has caused its share of bitchmemes. You have to be a bona fide journalist in order to partake in this new digg for journalist clone. I’m sorry but this sure seems to be nothing short of a slap in the face of every blogger out there.

Not only that but this whole thing is sounding like something that is pandering to the growing fear within MSM about the encroachment of blogs on their perceived territory. Maybe this is all just a matter of not enough coffee yet perception of what has been reported by TechCrunch but right now it sure doesn’t feel that way.

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