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June 21, 2007
The end for Perez?
When a co-worker of mine told me PerezHilton.com had been shut down, I couldn't believe it. And then I checked for myself.
If, like me, you had trouble accessing Perez Hilton's blog yesterday, there was good reason. The site was taken down by server host Crucial Paradigm for violating warnings to stop using copyrighted photos, a problem Perez has been having recently. Now back up and running, thanks to a different host, Perez's blog is running at a "skeleton" capacity, according to Variety.
As of this posting, comments were still down and the archive was gone. Clicking on the "copyright statement" took you back to the blog's homepage.
But even a blog shutdown can't keep the blogosphere's most popular gossip hound down.
- Try as they may, can’t nobody hold us down... Thanks for sticking with us and putting up with all the bullshiz. Truly. Deeply. Thank you!
What does all this mean? Should anyone outside of the blogosphere care? The answer... yes.
By finally holding Perez accountable for his actions, the blogosphere takes another step toward being a respected, CREDIBLE media source. The debate continues as to whether or not bloggers should be held to the same standards that MSM journalists are. With the shutdown of Perez's blog, a signal has been sent out saying, "Yes, bloggers should be held accountable."
Posted by Alicia Dorset at June 21, 2007 02:09 PM
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