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12 June 2005

blogs don't verify! oh noes! Former reporter who's now a blogger and studying to teach decides to attack all blogs for not confirming accuracy, and spreads the attack around to poynter, and wonkette and mediabistro--smackdown ensues. (this picture was the trigger)

post by: amberglow at: 12:32 | 14 comments

Considering the daily parade of lies from officials and other folks that gets printed and televised, and rarely if ever challenged or corrected, where does this guy get off?

posted by amberglow 12 June | 12:35

Did he bother to verify? Maybe she is a ho? She is white.

posted by arse_hat 12 June | 12:41

While, we need alternative media which blogs play a part, we could use some standard principles to keep them honest. If you made a mistake admit it. It drives me nuts that sites the purport to tell the truth “big media” is not telling then go and make changes to things they have published and do not note or track them. “and rarely if ever challenged or corrected, where does this guy get off?” Other people do bad stuff so why should we look at our own blemishes is never a good argument.

posted by arse_hat 12 June | 12:51

Well, using a screen cap (which may or may not be real) of a cable news channel as a basis for indicting all blogs--"Exhibit A against blogs" is his headline--is ridiculous. And he's blogging himself. Norah Campbell just repeats the White House's lies and spin each day, and no one at MSNBC challenges or factchecks it--i think he totally misses the point, and to get upset and spread it around--it's the top left column item at poynter now--is hysterical, and telling.

posted by amberglow 12 June | 12:57

I'm getting mighty tired of people who lump all blogs together as if they all did the same thing automagically, just by being blogs. GAH!

posted by dabitch 12 June | 13:06

Isn't it clear that it's a joke (and a very telling one)? It was to me, and to most, i believe.

posted by amberglow 12 June | 13:06

I think it will be most telling to see how he handles it if he is wrong. And yes he is being hysterical but I still think bloggers in general might say we will admit mistakes and track them rather than just say this is a tempest in a teapot. (tempest in a teapot...there should be a more up to date saying for that)

posted by arse_hat 12 June | 13:09

he did apologize later, and is not trying to make lemonade out of it

posted by amberglow 12 June | 13:15

Nice pick-up and good questions.

posted by arse_hat 12 June | 13:18

i just posted a comment there, answering.

posted by amberglow 12 June | 13:36

(tempest in a teapot...there should be a more up to date saying for that)

Tempest in a toilet bowl?

posted by Termite 12 June | 13:44

Talk about tempest in a teacup. He was just fishing to hang his opinion in something, so he takes a joke post and decides to treat it as if it were the release of The Pentagon Papers. What he's done is pretty much the reason to be suspicious of the internet.

I posted a link to MeFi yesterday of a report on participatory journalism.

posted by omiewise 12 June | 13:52

post that in his comments, omie--maybe he'll learn something.

posted by amberglow 12 June | 14:00

"We're just trying to get a handle on you people...in order to better understand what's on the minds of the younger generation..."

posted by Smart Dalek 12 June | 16:16

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