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

[Paul D. Fernhout]

Kevin Carson wrote:
> 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.

That's an excellent insight into the value of p2p news production. Thanks.

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/