Comments on: Personal finance blogs vs. mainstream media

By: Rob Bennett

Rob Bennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:54:21 +0000

Blogs and mainstream media alike which are nothing more than soapboxes for opinions should be viewed with a critical contextual eye. My view is that opinion stuff is the best material and the worst, depending on the skill with which it is prepared. Good opinion stuff gets to the bottom line -- it tells you what to do with the information. Bad opinion stuff tells you the wrong thing to do. Rob

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Weakonomics Links: Mangagement or Egoeconomics? | Weakonomi¢s — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:23:09 +0000

[...] Thicken My Wallet initially attracted my with a headline “Personal Finance Blogs vs Mainstream Media”. Little did I know part of the inspiration for the post was my attack on Dennis Kneale. This post offers a clear view of the situation between blogs and traditional media. If you’re a regular reader of Weakonomics you need to read this post to see what a post looks like when it’s well-written an organized, something always missing from Weakonomics. At the end a point is made that blogs and media should be conveyors of information and not opinion. That’s the only place where I disagree. I think shared opinion is important even in the traditional media, however what is unacceptable is the business of sharing opinions. I find anyone who shares their opinion as a primary source of income to be useless to society. If you liked my attack on Kneale, don’t forget about when I went after Kiplinger. [...]

By: admin

admin — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:33:08 +0000

Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoy the blog.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:58:51 +0000

Insightful posts like this are exactly the reason why Thicken My Wallet is the first blog I read every morning.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:28:18 +0000

Great article. I recently started my own blog, and like most PF bloggers, I don’t claim to be an expert. We write to organize our own thoughts, share them with others, and collaborate and exchange ideas.

I don’t look for people to blindly follow what I say… I’d prefer of they didn’t, in fact! The PF blogoshpere is about empowering people to start to think for themselves about their finances, and make the best informed decisions they can!

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