Facebook can be a fascinating space. Facebook can also be a bore. I am always disappointed by friends who post wall updates that are copied and pasted from other sources.
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Over the weekend, filmmaker Michael Moore wrote a piece keeping the peace over the Ground Zero Mosque. However, the most fascinating part of Michael’s argument was found pinned at the end of his article — as if an afterthought — where he tossed in a quote from German Playwright and Grand Thinker, Bertolt Brecht:
The man who speaks of the enemy
Is the enemy himself.
As the publisher of 13 blogs in the Boles Blogs Network, I write a lot of articles and I get tons of requests from other press organizations for interviews. I have learned to generally ignore any request that comes from a mainstream media outlet because they really just want you to do their background research for them — but without any reciprocal links back or appropriate recognition of the work you do for them. Here’s an example of a request from Fox News that landed in my Inbox late Tuesday night with a story deadline of the next day.
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