{"id":249,"date":"2007-04-05T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T22:14:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:31","slug":"ethics-in-blogger-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/04\/ethics-in-blogger-reviews","title":{"rendered":"If You Don’t Have Anything Nice To Say…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s say, hypothetically, that a blogger was sent a free product\/service worth about $500 by the company who sells the product\/service. There is no specific requirement that the blogger write about the product\/service, but it’s apparent that that’s why the blogger was chosen to receive the product\/service.<\/p>\n

Now, let’s say that the blogger has an overwhelmingly negative opinion of the product\/service. It’s not dangerous to the world or anything but the blogger would never, ever use it, based on its design\/utility\/etc.<\/p>\n

Given that the blogger *would* write something positive if his\/her experience with the product\/service was positive, it is his\/her responsibility to write something negative if the experience is negative? Going even further, if the blogger chooses to simply not say anything at all (out of respect for the niceness of the company who sent it) is that unethical?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s say, hypothetically, that a blogger was sent a free product\/service worth about $500 by the company who sells the product\/service. There is no specific requirement that the blogger write about the product\/service, but it’s apparent that that’s why the blogger was chosen to receive the product\/service. Now, let’s say that the blogger has an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}