Speaking of real or fake, I guess it’s that type of morning …

I should have cobbled together interview quotes and called it a George Clooney blog — not. That’s what Arianna Huffington did and when the former Batman emerged from the bat cave to cry foul she put her foot in her mouth again, blaming it on getting approval from Clooney’s people. Fast forward to now where she is realizing that she “made a big mistake” and this whole idiotic escapade earns her linkage from CNN:

“I now realize that I made a big mistake in posting a blog without clearly identifying that the material in it didn’t originate as a blog post, but was pieced together from previous interviews,” she wrote. “I’m sorry I didn’t see this earlier.”

This brings into question every supposed starlit blog she has over at the Huffington Post. Fakes, all of them? Some of them? None of them save for George Clooney? What do readers believe?

What is and isn’t a blog, take 1,000,000,000,000
IMO, a blog isn’t generated by a machine. It’s not a cutout of newspaper clippings. It’s written by a real person. Yes, it could be ghost written, or character written, which means that George Clooney could have given permission to somebody at the Hufffington Post but it seems clear he didn’t authorize this.

I really hope the day doesn’t come where bloggers have to go around policing their own bylines: “That is not the real me. Imposter!”

Let’s hope we don’t see more copycat of Huffington’s blog stupidity making CNN. There has to be something more noteworthy happening in the world.

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