CodyWillard.com Moves to Fox (or, Am I Just Another Sell Out?)

People tell us that we play too loud
But they don’t know what our music’s about
We never listen to the record company man
They try to change us and ruin our band.

That’s why we don’t wanna be good
That’s why we don’t wanna be good
We’re prisoners of rock and roll.

When were jammin’ in our old garage
The girls come over and it sure gets hot
We don’t wanna be watered down
Takin’ orders from record company clowns.

That’s why we don’t wanna be good
That’s why we don’t wanna be good
We’re prisoners of rock and roll.

We’re prisoners of rock and roll. - Neil Young

CodyWillard.com is, alas, becoming cody.blogs.foxbusiness.com.

Am I just a classic sell out at this point? I have to wonder exactly that if I can flatter myself for a minute, don’t I, as the move is made…

The whole of my blog, starting with TheCodyBlog.com to my Trading Diary on TheStreet.com or even the original TelEconomist.com days, is something which frankly I’ve come to associate my self-identity with, at least in some part. And it is now fully engulfed by a mainstream media outlet… The Man. Hmm.

At any rate, rest assured that there will be absolutely no change in the the thrust of the content and what I write and say around here. I’ll not pull any punches — none that I’d not pull on my own anyway at least, you know. I’ll still write in exactly the same voice, calling it exactly as I see it, Flipping It as best as I can (though I suppose being as fully part of a mainstream media company, a giant conglomerate makes my trying to Flip It [Flipping It - a term I’ve trademarked and defined as doing or thinking exactly opposite conventional wisdom] a bit more challenging by definition, doesn’t it?) and basically being exactly who I’ve always been as best as I can.

I’ll post lots of stock, economic, and societal analysis and commentary, lots of music, personal stories and home videos and photologs and whatever else I want, whenever I want, however I want…as long as the technology’s supported and all that, which, come to think of it, means one change to the blog will be that I won’t be able to embed videos any more until FoxBusiness.com chooses to greenlight that ability. Sigh, the control starts even as I say it won’t, doesn’t it?

Well, at least they can’t stop me from writing that the control starts, can they?

We’re Prisoners of Rock n Roll, but let’s keep on rockin’ in the free world, eh?

Yes, ironically, you’ll have to click on the link below since I can’t embed the video since I’ve sold out and now don’t have the control I did if you want to scream with the Godfather of Grunge himself.

All that said, as far as my media career is concerned, you guys do realize I started off with a telecom stock website called TelEconomist.com and got a break from Jim Cramer and TheStreet.com by responding to one of his columns back in 2000 and now, yes, my blog is moving to Fox? I am pretty proud of that too, you see!

See you on the other side then.