Over the weekend, two of the media’s favorite gadget weblogs (I’ll let you guess which two) discovered that AT&T Wireless was offering free downgrades for many of their customers’ high end phones. One of the weblogs even suggested that their story was an “exclusive,” despite the fact that Operation Gadget published a report on this issue four days earlier.
It’s not like our story claimed to be original. We partially attributed it to an article on studio2f.com that was published on February 27, while adding some new information and offering disaffected AT&T Wireless customers alternatives that included changing carriers.
The piece that was labeled “exclusive” was well written and had some new information in it. The label just struck me as misleading, given how much information was already out there in the blogosphere before the article was published.