{"id":328,"date":"2006-02-28T08:16:31","date_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=328"},"modified":"2006-02-28T08:16:31","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T13:16:31","slug":"the-sacrifices-i-make-for-my-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/02\/28\/the-sacrifices-i-make-for-my-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"The sacrifices I make for my readers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got an e-mail from one of the folks at backcountry.com,<\/a> asking if I’d add a link to their site on my rail down there at the left under “gear retailers.” The guy offered to sweeten the deal by sending me a discount code for 20-25 percent off valid for the rest of the year.
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I was sorely tempted — this is as close to having a sponsor as I’ve come in nine years of blogging — but in the end I decided to follow the dictates of my employer, which is: no freebies from the folks we cover. Even though this blog is hobby (well, addiction, but still), I suspect people who know me as a newsman would hold me to the standards of the biz. And I’m sure my bosses would, if they had any idea I even had such a blog.
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The funny thing was, I already had<\/em> a link to backcountry.com — in my “gear reviews” category. Clueless dolt that I am, I had happened across the site while seaching for gear reviews and had gotten it into my head that it was primarily a review site rather than an online retailer.<\/p>\n

I haven’t cut any deals with any of the retailers listed down there. I just linked to the ones I’ve had good experiences with. Since I got a pretty good deal at backcountry.com just a couple weeks back, I had no qualms about moving the link down to the retailers category.
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So there you have it: My heart is pure, untainted by the ravages of commerce. Until the offer of a 50 percent off coupon comes in. I can be bought, but not cheaply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I got an e-mail from one of the folks at backcountry.com, asking if I’d add a link to their site on my rail down there at the left under “gear retailers.” The guy offered to sweeten the deal by…<\/p>\n

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