The Media Reads Blogs, But Rarely Link Them

In my blogging career I have written nearly 2000 blog posts and sent thousands of exit links to our national media sites. In return, I have never received a single link from the Globe and Mail, National Post, CBC, CTV, or Toronto Star. But I have received e-mails from several journalists from these institutions anytime they think that I have taken one of their articles out of context. I wrote a post with the words "according to Susan Delacourt", and she e-mailed me a correction within hours. I get plenty of clicks every day from the CTV web server, and there have been a number of instances where someone in the national press has repeated a hypothesis of mine after I have written it. For the record I am not a journalist; I watch/read the news and write my own opinion of the events reported by real journalists. That’s why I have sent the Post and Globe over 10,000 hits in the past 2 years. When I write something after reading something written by someone else, I link their post. But this is a one way street.

The members of our media definitely follow the political blogs; they just don't want to send them any traffic. They use blogs to develop their own opinions, but they certainly don't want to risk bleeding more readers to people like us Blogging Tories.