This link on Instapundit will take you to the disussion of blogger ethics inspired by the revelation that the Dean Campaign paid Daily Kos in order to increase their chances of favorable comment (see WSJ article). It’s unusual for Glenn because reader comments are enabled.
Most of us are never going to be offered money to shill, so it’s not a terribley relevant issue across the board – even LGF guy Charles Johnson says he’s never been offered shill money – but a lot of bloggers will toe one line or another for a link or two, so maybe that’s the relevant issue. Sometimes I’ve done that, and sometimes I done the opposite, attacked somebody for the attention it draws. I suppose neither tactic is especially ethical, but the fawning probably works better, and I finally decided since I couldn’t stomach either to make a new and more obscure blog than the one I used to tend. It’s more fun this way, I can just write what I like and to hell with everybody else.