Re: Is Your Blog Commercial?

**f*@aol.com**

 I think ghost writing is a time-honored tradition and honorable work. Kinda fun, too. A form of acting.
To answer the other question: If I learned that A's prose was really penned (or keyed) by D or Q, it wouldn't reduce my enjoyment of said prose. Might change my opinion of A, but good writing is good writing and useful information is useful information. I'm not a personality cult type. I might lust after, say, Dave Barry's job, but not his life.
JF

From: WGardenermag@aol.com
Subject: Re: [GWL] Is Your Blog Commercial?

In a message dated 3/3/2009 9:56:14 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
KTCopsey@aol.com writes:

>>but some also come across as  being 
the personal blog  of the site owner,...<<

something about a ghost-written personal blog is just not ethically cool with 
 me as a reader and blog poster. Hiring someone else to write your own blog  
supposedly coming from your voice is deceptive and kinda creepy, IMHO. If  you 
found out that a blog you were following by A was written by D, how would  
you react? What do others think on this?

Sincerely,
Kathy Jentz
Editor/Publisher
Washington  Gardener Magazine

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