From: Jeff Shultz 

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:46:53 -0500, Robert Comer wrote:

>> Oh, I think the aluminum foil hat crowd IS well represented among
>> bloggers, but the traditional news outlets have gotten away with crap
>> for years.  CBS got nailed by bloggers.
>>
>> The hell of it is that the main stream media gets things howlingly wrong
>> every time they touch something narrower and specialized that I DO
>> happen to know a lot about.  How much am I supposed to trust them,
>> either?
>
> I certainly understand your point, and it happens to me too!
>
> That's kind of why I don't trust any one news source, I kind of mix them
> altogether to get a clearer picture.  But I do leave bloggers out because
> there's no accountability there.  CBS got busted it's true, but not just
> because of the bloggers, and note that the accountability was there for
> CBS, they paid for their "mistake" . 
Bloggers don't have
> too.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
Except that CBS was busted _within hours_ by bloggers. And there is no
evidence that anyone else would have done it in a noticible fashion.

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