{"id":3219,"date":"2023-04-09T04:31:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T04:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/what-milton-friedman-taught-me-about-guest-blogging\/"},"modified":"2023-04-09T04:31:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T04:31:41","slug":"what-milton-friedman-taught-me-about-guest-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/what-milton-friedman-taught-me-about-guest-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"What Milton Friedman Taught Me About Guest Blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was young I\u2019ve been a bit of an economics nerd, and despite Milton Friedman&#8217;s evil creation (income tax withholdings) I\u2019ve forgiven him and learned from his writings. Strangely, Friedman taught me more about guest blogging than any marketing guru I\u2019ve met. Years ago I came across an interview of Friedman on C-SPAN Booknotes talking about F.A. Hayek\u2019s \u201cRoad to Serfdom\u201d the pertinent quote is \u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ve [The New York Times] turned down many an op-ed piece from me which I\u2019ve subsequently published in The Wall Street Journal or someplace else.\u201d You&#8217;ve read that right. Nobel Laureate, National Medal of Science &amp; Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Milton Friedman had op-eds rejected. It wasn\u2019t because his writing was bad or because he lacked the credibility. So when rejected, he submitted elsewhere. This was eye opening because as someone with dyslexia I never thought of myself much of a writer. When my posts\u00a0weren&#8217;t accepted, I&#8217;d assumed it was because my writing was bad. Many, perhaps most guest posts meet rejection\u00a0because the quality is lacking. This isn\u2019t always the case as Friedman clearly proves. Like it or not, publications often have a narrative, and they don\u2019t always want content that\u2019s far outside of that purview. As Friedman put it \u201cThey [The New York Times] have not been very favorable to these ideas [Austrian Economics] in the past.\u201d Since this isn\u2019t a post about journalistic ethics, let\u2019s just agree editors have the right to turn down any content for any reason. And let\u2019s&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/pushroi.com\/milton-friedman-taught-guest-blogging\/\">What Milton Friedman Taught Me About Guest Blogging<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I was young I\u2019ve been a bit of an economics nerd, and despite Milton Friedman&#8217;s evil creation (income tax withholdings) I\u2019ve forgiven him and learned from his writings. Strangely,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,300,337,1394,335,1395,1396,12,295,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}