Mr. Hwang, I’ve noticed a very disturbing trend in your posts. You (and your other pay-per-view blogging cohorts) willfully bend facts in order to sensationalize your ideas and maintain your sizable readership, but at the expense of those who take time to read your thoughts.

Let’s take a look at this article for example. The line,
“Laurensfitness.com is run by *this* trainer [emphasis added],” is placed next to a photo of a healthy bodied female. Many of your readers likely assumed that the “this” in that sentence, referred to Lauren Harding of laurensfitnesss.com AS ANY RATIONAL PERSON WOULD. It is not until the astute reader (such as myself) takes the time to read the HTML source and examines the ALT attribute of the image that they realize that it is, in fact, related to the menshealth.com bullet point and has nothing to do with Lauren Harding of laurensfitness.com (who, by the way is quite homely: http://laurensfitness.com/about-2/).

But this seems of no concern to you. You know that by the time anyone realizes this, you’ve already collected your pay-per-view revenue from wordpress and have checks in the mail from Lauren Harding, Dr. Men Shealth, and Sheldon Stronglifts.

Shame on you, Mr. Hwang. Please try to remember that although your feedburner may be burning into the 5th digit realm, you are not above journalistic ethics. You have a responsibility to the facts. You have a responsibility to your readers. You have a responsibility to yourself.

Michael