[p2p-research] Obama open to newspaper bailout bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

[Kevin Carson]

On 10/5/09, Paul D. Fernhout <pdfernhout at kurtz-fernhout.com> wrote:
> http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/59523-obama-open-to-newspaper-bailout-bill

>   "I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all
> opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories
> in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each
> other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.
>  """

That's the establishment liberal view of blogs, all right.  Problem
is, it's ass-backwards.  "Fact-checking" for the blogosphere works
about the same as for Wikipedia:  it's not a function of the
individual blogger, but of the relationship between bloggers.  And I
suspect the blogosphere collectively stacks up pretty well against
"professional" journalists when it comes to fact-checking.  Any error
of fact or reasoning in a major blog is subject to being ruthlessly
exposed by other bloggers.

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