MORE ON THE WAL-MART / BLOGGER / PR STORY. (Via Jeff Jarvis).

I’ll just add what Cathy Seipp said after a similar experience: “When journalists go from keeping secrets about sources to expecting sources to keep secrets about them, something in the media has begun to stink with self-importance.” Actually, I think a lot of it has to do with an obvious agenda and poor people skills. These are not assets in journalism, though they’re not unknown there, either.