It’s been eight months since TechCrunch announced that they would no longer honor embargoes, with several other sites jumping on that bandwagon in the interim. One of the issues here was undermining the credibility of the blogosphere at large. As Trisha Lyn Fawver put it,
New Rules of Breaking News, Beware of Embargoes
Part Four of a series discussing blogger relations, "Building a Bridge Between Your Story, Bloggers, and People."
Blog Talk: News Embargoes Are More Important Than Ever
Yahoo corporate blogger Jeremy Zawodny wonders if media embargoes are overused, thanks in part, to the role of corporate blogs…