Media Bloggers Association

The Media Bloggers Association (MBA) is a United States membership-based, non-partisan voluntary association describing its activity as "supporting the development of 'blogging' or 'citizen journalism' as a distinct form of media".^[1]

In January 2007, an MBA member received press credentials identical to those of broadcast and print journalists at a federal court, to cover the trial of Lewis Libby, alongside bloggers from more established sites including Firedoglake, the Huffington Post, and Daily Kos.^[2] The MBA described this as a significant step forward in its efforts on behalf of its members^[3], despite the fact that the major blogs covering the trial did not rely on the MBA for their credentials.^[4]

In June 2008, MBA became involved in a copyright dispute involving Associated Press demand of strict terms for bloggers quoting from their news at the request of Rogers Cadenhead whose Drudge Retort was affected.^[5]

Criticism

Many of the MBA's members are unknown bloggers, but some are prominent bloggers such as Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit^[6], Oliver Willis,^[7] Liza Sabater of Culture Kitchen,^{[8][dead link]} Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine. Still, some bloggers have claimed that the MBA has made sweeping claims to represent bloggers.^[9][10][11] These critics have claimed that the MBA did not include any major bloggers as members nor represent a significant proportion of the blogging community. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch also claimed, without support, that a business relationship existed between the Associated Press and the MBA.^[12]

BoingBoing, one of the blogs critical of the MBA, issued a corrective stating that it was the Associated Press and the New York Times which implied that the MBA was acting on behalf of all bloggers, and not the MBA itself.^[13] MBA supporters^[14], Robert Cox himself^[15] and others ^[16] have written at length in response to these criticisms.

References

1. ^ About Media Bloggers Association – MBA Mission
2. ^ Associated Press, "History: Bloggers get in trial", The Albuquerque Tribune, January 13, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2007
3. ^ Sipress, Alan, "Too Casual To Sit on Press Row? Bloggers' Credentials Boosted With Seats at the Libby Trial", The Washington Post, January 11, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2007 (registration required)
4. ^ "For Bloggers, Libby Trial Is Fun and Fodder (Correction)", New York Times February 16, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2008
5. ^ How the Media Bloggers Association Got Involved | Workbench
6. ^ The MBA logo can be seen on the Instapundit website
7. ^ "Media Bloggers Association And The AP Story". Oliver Willis' blog. June 18, 2008. http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/06/18/media-bloggers-association-and-the-ap-story/. 
8. ^ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/something-is-rotten-in-denmark-the-ap-nytimes-and-mba-love-triangle/all-comments/#comment-2379728
9. ^ Doctorow, Cory. "Who are the "Media Bloggers Association" and what gives them to right to negotiate copyright with the Associated Press?". BoingBoing. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/who-are-the-media-bl.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
10. ^ Nielsen Hayden, Teresa. "AP to negotiate with sham "Media Bloggers Association"". http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010354.html. 
11. ^ "Media bloggers association". Gawker.com. http://gawker.com/tag/media-bloggers-association/. 
12. ^ Arrington, Michael. "Something Is Rotten In Denmark: The A.P., NYTimes and MBA Love Triangle". TechCrunch. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/18/something-is-rotten-in-denmark-the-ap-nytimes-and-mba-love-triangle/. Retrieved 2008-06-19. 
13. ^ Doctorow, Cory. "Media Bloggers Association -- who they are (and they aren't "representing blogs" to the Associated Press)". BoingBoing. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/19/media-bloggers-assoc.html. 
14. ^ See notes 2 and 3 supra. See also "EXCLUSIVE : Robert Cox answers some questions about his coming meeting with AP". Culture Kitchen. http://www.culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/exclusive_robert_cox_answers_some_questions_about_. Retrieved 2008-11-05. 
15. ^ "Back Story on AP - Drudge Retort Issue". http://www.mediabloggers.org/robert-cox/backstory-on-ap-drudge-retort-issue. 
16. ^ Teresa (June 18, 2008). "AP to negotiate with sham “Media Bloggers Association”". Making Light blog. http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/010354.html. Retrieved 2008-11-05. 

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