tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post6342858407650121154..comments2024-03-17T17:40:33.760-05:00Comments on The Chronicles of a Chicago Mom: Secrets of Mommy Bloggers?!?Cynthiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00625673916138703709noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-39311210928218140822009-08-15T22:10:51.387-05:002009-08-15T22:10:51.387-05:00Now I know why I don't watch Channel 2 here. ...Now I know why I don't watch Channel 2 here. Gah.<br /><br />Yeah, I'm a mommy blogger with ads on her blog and an review site (which I have yet to review anything) but what is the big deal? Most women who blog make next to nothing on their blogs. <br />I heard an ad on the radio for Google AdSense today that implied that you could replace your income with it. Funny, I had it on my blog for almost two years and made NOTHING. So it was deleted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-15852417778413334772009-08-15T14:24:16.368-05:002009-08-15T14:24:16.368-05:00AMEN. That is all.AMEN. That is all.Musings of a Housewifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09854615817486354491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-18527061019738267682009-08-15T09:23:54.750-05:002009-08-15T09:23:54.750-05:00I lost respect for media long ago. This is just an...I lost respect for media long ago. This is just another example of them NOT doing their job.<br />Now off to sail around in the yacht I got with all my blogging money (and by yacht I mean the Little People one person 'boat' and by sail I mean let it float around my bath tub). It's the life of a mommy blogger ;)Miss Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15430066224876012848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-70808808947204603182009-08-15T09:22:45.444-05:002009-08-15T09:22:45.444-05:00I didn't see this 'news' story, but I ...I didn't see this 'news' story, but I thank you for writing this.WeaselMommahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01695797746467444304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-85687955047693788212009-08-15T09:10:56.872-05:002009-08-15T09:10:56.872-05:00Thanks for coming to our defense in a superhero wa...Thanks for coming to our defense in a superhero way, Nap Warden!QuatroMamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05075804563842203833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-9476327102328681222009-08-15T09:09:27.395-05:002009-08-15T09:09:27.395-05:00When women find creative ways to make money, it...When women find creative ways to make money, it's a sell out. When men do it, it's entrepeneurial.Antique Mommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17106875338715959760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-65254875163507294752009-08-15T09:04:34.672-05:002009-08-15T09:04:34.672-05:00Now that I'm done rolling around in my piles o...Now that I'm done rolling around in my piles of cash that I make from blogging {dies laughing}<br />I can comment ;-) <br /><br />Very well put honey, I'm glad that you decided to write this. Good job. High FIVES and LOVE the new banner.Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03395575647647856801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-37317470646513625882009-08-15T01:07:55.601-05:002009-08-15T01:07:55.601-05:00I am surprised I am just seeing this. This stateme...I am surprised I am just seeing this. This statement reeked of insincerity: "Many of these mothers had no idea that the bloggers are often compensated for expressing their opinions. When we told them, they weren't happy about it."<br /><br />I'm not about to blast those mothers who allegedly had no idea, because of how CBS presented the report. I have reviewed products before hence my disclosure link on one of my blogs and am in no way worried about federal regulators.<br /><br />Defend ourselves we will.Deehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083331411694803694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-9044850141671690612009-08-14T22:44:57.937-05:002009-08-14T22:44:57.937-05:00Perfectly said. LOVE this post.Perfectly said. LOVE this post.the mama bird diarieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04248352454666306821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-23020275922547220312009-08-14T19:25:18.320-05:002009-08-14T19:25:18.320-05:00Seriously? What happened to my comment? Did CBS ea...Seriously? What happened to my comment? Did CBS eat it or something? I have nothing to add now because it has all been said- this was shoddy "journalism" and I continue to wonder why Moms that blog are being targeted for so much negativity.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634096295956313230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-91033788269624452042009-08-14T16:49:30.443-05:002009-08-14T16:49:30.443-05:00Two thumbs up mama. Way up.Two thumbs up mama. Way up.Mom101https://www.blogger.com/profile/15468524489744839899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-86110694027695493352009-08-14T16:21:38.665-05:002009-08-14T16:21:38.665-05:00Another high five from over here. Very well said. ...Another high five from over here. Very well said. <br /><br />And, yes, love the new banner!!Single Mom Seekinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846340433536492232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-68594256935467715562009-08-14T14:00:40.570-05:002009-08-14T14:00:40.570-05:00Go girl! Nice banner by the way!Go girl! Nice banner by the way!lelikhttp://helpingmom.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-86770847776076101402009-08-13T23:21:29.576-05:002009-08-13T23:21:29.576-05:00All I can say is very well put. I just watched the...All I can say is very well put. I just watched the footage online and they do put mom bloggers in a bad light.Stephanie @ Bizziemommy.comhttp://www.bizzieommmy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-65363061920780518482009-08-13T23:15:08.274-05:002009-08-13T23:15:08.274-05:00I love u!!!
Great post. I was on fire the other n...I love u!!!<br /><br />Great post. I was on fire the other night when I got that link for you. That was a horrible piece of journalism.Julie {Angry Julie Monday}https://www.blogger.com/profile/10482539881072896606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-60990018726909439212009-08-13T21:11:22.342-05:002009-08-13T21:11:22.342-05:00This is why I don't watch the news anymore. It...This is why I don't watch the news anymore. It's all about sensationism. And if there isn't anything legitimate, well heck, let's make a mountain out of a molehill. Well done, CBS, you have once again gotten it completely, unbelievably wrong.CaraBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04614627167922944626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-14287708164046707472009-08-13T19:43:43.752-05:002009-08-13T19:43:43.752-05:00The amount of work we put into our blogs we should...The amount of work we put into our blogs we should be getting paid! There is so much work (although I love it) involved in blogging that if I were to demand a paycheck for the amount of work I have to do my paycheck should be around $50,000. <br /><br />I blog because I love it, I write what I want, I don't get paid for any of it although that would be nice. The media has it all wrong. We are just another voice getting the word out good/or bad about a product as if we were talking to our friends or family. I try to do a well balanced blog by not going to commercial and remembering that I started this to create a legacy for my children to be able to read about our lives together and always know what I felt, thought, dreamed. <br /><br />You are right, if the news wants to be fair and balanced they should have interviewed way more bloggers and perhaps a PR person or two.Maria's Spacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11060118062069758281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-89604287866813736482009-08-13T18:24:02.900-05:002009-08-13T18:24:02.900-05:00Keep preaching, sister! If I was in blogging for ...Keep preaching, sister! If I was in blogging for the money/product, I would be WAY stupid. Though I wouldn't mind a little money and product once in a while... :)Mozi Esmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078786257885681829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-55458479959979926162009-08-13T16:38:34.427-05:002009-08-13T16:38:34.427-05:00I think you summed it up very nicely. I may take ...I think you summed it up very nicely. I may take a foray into the world of the giveaway at some point. Or I may not. I think a PP found the motivation when she mentioned that tv has no reason to speak favorably of bloggers as we are their competition in a sense.Kathy B!https://www.blogger.com/profile/13932652254033295435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-45458047392142099212009-08-13T16:33:41.165-05:002009-08-13T16:33:41.165-05:00i didn't see the piece. and i'm glad i di...i didn't see the piece. and i'm glad i didn't - i don't think my blood pressure could taken it. <br /><br />i have a regular 'mommyblog' site with blogher ads and i also have a review/giveaway site. i'm totally upfront with what i review and giveaway and take it really personally that people would assume otherwise. <br /><br />a lot of the things i give away i don't even get compensated for... and when i do get compensated it's usually with one of the same product i'm giving away... not exactly a 'get rich quick' scheme. LOL. <br /><br />i actually prefer to do pure giveaways, rather than review/giveaways, because i don't want people to think that i'm pimping an object for pay... it's really sad that i have to worry about that.Aprilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15915351322324269632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-54018621523067572052009-08-13T15:11:53.263-05:002009-08-13T15:11:53.263-05:00There are too many comments to read through here, ...There are too many comments to read through here, so sorry if I'm saying pretty much the same as others, but I just want to say:<br /><br />YOU'RE AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!<br /><br /><br />There are a LOT of wonderful bloggers out there, some are mommy bloggers, some are review bloggers, some make money, some don't. It doesn't matter. So you're right...talking to a couple bloggers then lumping the thousands of other bloggers into one stereotype is just plain crap and bad journalism.Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01883718777962640748noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-77442303572813191422009-08-13T14:41:08.930-05:002009-08-13T14:41:08.930-05:00Perfectly put. And so YOU - now that I've met ...Perfectly put. And so YOU - now that I've met you in person. You write like you speak. AUTHENTICALLY. I guess that's not a word CBS is familiar with, but they should know it exists in the context of mommy bloggers. The problem for everyone, I'm so convinced, is that we're MOMS, and we have too much power here, too much voice (which, actually, so isn't the case). But, it scares the media (who pride themselves on being THE voice) when moms/women have might RISE, might UNITE and change the face of capitalism, of journalism, as we know it.... Again, GREAT job.Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07516203764767040649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-25944817344117660852009-08-13T12:56:26.754-05:002009-08-13T12:56:26.754-05:00Ok. Here I go.
1. Crappy reporting. Lazy reporting...Ok. Here I go.<br />1. Crappy reporting. Lazy reporting, just like you said. I'll bet her GPA in college was WAY up there, ya know.<br /><br />2. How long would we have media if we cut out all THEIR advertising? No more ads on tv or ads in the magazines. Let them sell enough subscriptions at a high enough price to pay for the content. yeah right. Taste of Home finally gave in and gave up their no ad policy. They just could not hack it anymore without advertising.<br /><br />3. Most of the celebs out there are at least GIVEN, if not PAID, to wear clothes by designers. I read an article interview with Nicole Kidman. She said she could kill herself reading scripts and making movies or she could do a couple of product endorsements and wear whatever clothes she got paid to wear and then go do whatever she wanted to do all day. She said she had gotten to the place in her career that there were very few movies anymore that she really wanted to do and the amount of money she got paid for the products was huge and so much easier. I think Chanel #5 is one of her "accounts".<br /><br />4. So what is wrong with the little reporter woman? Does she just want a piece of the action? Maybe she needs to start her own blog. Let her review a Gucci bag or whatever turns her crank and see if she changes her tune. As long as the reviews are fair and honest, let them stand. If a blogger says "best deal in the world!" about every product, she will lose her credibility with her readers very quickly and everything will reflect her scam: the subscriber numbers, the posts, eventually the ads will follow and the oppotunities to review will disappear.<br /><br />5. I used to write a restaurant review for a local mag. I told them when I took the job that if I ever ate anywhere that I would not send my own friends, I would not send our readers there either. At that point I would have to call the editor and let her handle the situation (these were our advertisers, so I could not say "this place sucks"), but I would not write a positive review if I had a negative experience and put my integrity as a writer and the magazine's reputation at risk just for a few hundred dollars' worth of advertising. She agreed with me. Fortunately, I never had to deal with that; everywhere I ate was good. However, I did have some places where I had to say things like "don't go if you are in a hurry" which was a veiled way of saying the service or cooks were not exactly speedy.Jacqueline in Atlantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03233804336038923355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-64517687422284324772009-08-13T10:39:45.262-05:002009-08-13T10:39:45.262-05:00Didn't see it. Don't know that I will watc...Didn't see it. Don't know that I will watch because it'll just make me mad. I have enough things to be mad about and I'm TRYING TO BE MORE CHEERFUL, damnit!tracey.becker1@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09606831315390042198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3367581551556551352.post-71128824235065008052009-08-13T09:59:36.930-05:002009-08-13T09:59:36.930-05:00Thank you for such an insightful, dead-on blog pos...Thank you for such an insightful, dead-on blog post about that horribly reported, highly-biased CBS story. I am a long-time journalist who has written stories on everything from politics and murders to George Clooney and the Real Housewives franchise. I can tell you that there are A LOT of freebies floating around newsrooms and magazine editorial offices, and rarely, if ever, is anyone forced to give the products back to the companies that sent them for review, much less report them on their taxes or disclose in stories that they received the product for free. Moreover, no one seems to tell TV stations/newspapers/magazines that they can't accept ads from companies about which they write. In fact, in some cases, the ad departments are encouraged to seek ads from companies that have review products in their editorial stories. For instance, have you ever watched a news program in which a celebrity is interviewed about her new movie, and then seconds later, a commercial for that movie runs? <br /><br />I mean, really. Isn't this simply the pot calling the kettle black?<br /><br />I know the woman interviewed in that CBS news story personally. She is a woman of honesty and integrity, and I see nothing wrong with the way she runs HER blog. She is as sweet as pie and hardworking and was unfairly maligned in an incomplete, unbalanced piece full of holes. It was, in essence, journalistically incompetent. She's the victim here, not moms who depend on her sound, fair reviews of products they may want to try out for themselves.<br /><br />I'd like to add that as anyone who blogs knows, it takes an enormous amount of energy and time to write posts and run a blog, and if a blogger (mommy or no) decides that a company should pay for their products to be reviewed, then that is her right. So long as she/he is honest in her review (I liked XYZ product because it really got the stains out of my clothes or XYZ product sucks because it did NOT get the stains out of my clothes), I don't really care if she got paid a couple of dollars for it. In fact, good for her: the least a multi-million dollar company can do is pay for my hard work reviewing and writing about their products. <br /><br />This is my first time visiting here... I'm going to make a point of visiting again!MBB Founder and Editor Denene Millnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17413819770146273768noreply@blogger.com