End Of An Era

This blog is dedicated to former contributors of the Dow Jones MarketWatch web site.

I was once a contributor to that site myself.

It was an interesting place in it's time. Allowing people with disparate views on topical issues, (primarily financial), from all walks of life to converse, comment, criticize, and generally blow off steam about issues affecting markets and trading.

Alas, it was too good to be true.

Having achieved high levels of traffic and success, due largely to it's dedicated contributors, the owners of the site could not leave well enough alone.

Instead choosing to institute policies which effectively, surreptitiously served to control the discussion according to their own objectives.

It is my hope that this blog might become an area for others like me who were unnerved by the situation, and would like to maintain connections made during the good times.

I'll also try and comment here about topics that I believe are not being covered adequately in the MSM of Internet financial reporting.

And feel free to suggest your own topics as well. I'll post them as I have time. Credible sources and imaginative headlines will tend to run in your favor.


1/18/2010

Today MW refused to publish anything regarding the special election in Massachusetts for Ted Kennedy's former seat.

Although many members wanted to converse regarding the story, there was no publication of a story touching on the subject.

Any mention of the topic was subsequently deleted by the MW administrators - who coincidentally recently instituted a policy allowing all "off topic" commentary to be removed.

The policy effectively strips the members of any ability to discuss topics not deemed worthy of publication by their editorial staff.

Their "solution" is to point people towards group discussion areas, which receive little visibility by comparison to topical stories posted on the main page of the site.


Very 1984 of them, IMHO.


This place is intended to be different.

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