{"id":1673,"date":"2007-07-18T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2007-07-18T11:25:47","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:25:47","slug":"make-no-mistake-without-the-thoughtful-dispassionate-accuracy-of-professional-journalists-the-world-itself-would-crumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1673\/make-no-mistake-without-the-thoughtful-dispassionate-accuracy-of-professional-journalists-the-world-itself-would-crumble\/","title":{"rendered":"Make no mistake, without the thoughtful, dispassionate accuracy of professional journalists, the world itself would crumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

From VentureBeat:<\/a><\/p>\n

For this, Redfin has been banned [false] from operating in Oregon [false], New Jersey [false] and now Tennessee [false]. Additionally, the site has been fined by the National Association of Realtors [false], which owns the Multiple Listing Service [false], a national database [false] of home listings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s two sentences, seven errors of fact.<\/p>\n

Redfin can operate all it wants in Oregon, New Jersey and Tennessee. Those states ban commission rebates, which is vicious and wrong, but that doesn’t forbid Redfin from working there. In general, you will not find Redfin in any market where homes are affordable, because its cost-structure can only work — if it can work at all — on high-priced homes.<\/p>\n

The second sentence is so rife with errors, I’m not going to bother trying to fix it. If you want to know what really happened, it’s here: Defending Redfin: Sweet Digs weblog buried by inane MLS rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I am so glad that there are fearless guardians of truth willing to take money for this level of ineptitude. It would be an awful curse if we had to depend for news on people who care about facts and are actually paying attention.<\/p>\n

Jeesh!<\/p>\n

So as not to be unrelentingly negative: Newspapers got some bad news this morning<\/a>, but for-pay journalism is not dead. But if journalists hope to portray themselves as “trusted professionals,” they need to catch a clue. The audience in the aggregate<\/i> may net out dumb enough to buy crap like this, but the audience in particular<\/i> contains individuals who know a lot<\/i> more than you do about whatever you happen to be writing about. In the past those people were silenced by circumstance. Now each one of them can stand at the narrow end of an international megaphone. Not coincidentally, the best of the for-pay journalists are becoming webloggers, like John Cook, who broke this story<\/a> and who managed to get it right in the first place.
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Technorati Tags: disintermediation<\/a>, real estate<\/a>, real estate marketing<\/a>, Redfin.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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From VentureBeat: For this, Redfin has been banned [false] from operating in Oregon [false], New Jersey [false] and now Tennessee [false]. Additionally, the site has been fined by the National Association of Realtors [false], which owns the Multiple Listing Service [false], a national database [false] of home listings. That’s two sentences, seven errors of fact. 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