Financial writer Felix Salmon doesn’t think it’s fair or right for Henry Blodget to be writing about finance and investments.  Read Blodget’s reply here. 

I don’t know about this one, Henry actually seems to go all out to disclose everything, in a humorous manner to boot. 

Salmon doesn’t think it’s fair that a bunch of journalists are out of work while Blodget ruminates and pontificates about tech, media and investing… but Salmon is missing a key element: in this instance, Blodget wasn’t given a job.  He basically turned his InternetOutsider.com blog (a one-man operation) and built a business that now hires other journalists. 

One example I can think of is when Nicholas Carlson was downsized from Nick Denton’/Gawker Media’s Valleywag, Blodget recruited Carlson pretty much immediately.

Honestly, it’s hard to think this is anything but Salmon being jealous of what Blodget has been able to pull off in a couple of years which is launch a blog that did to Tech Crunch what Tech Crunch did to Paid Content, in other words, force the latter to step it up… which in the end is a positive for the reader.

If it’s not jealousy, then Salmon is demonstrating the very kind of behavior that gives journalists a bad name.

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