From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Jeff Shultz"  wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:42:00 -0500, Robert Comer wrote:
>>
>>> It isn't just MSM that I read (and in fact, I usually avoid MSM as well
>>> after the initial story) -- I tend to follow media outlets from many
>>> different countries, and that's how I decide on things.
>>>
>>> Blogs are a different story, these are things not tied to anything that
>>> would make me want to trust them.  They can say whatever they want,
>>> truth
>>> or not, and nobody is going to know the difference.
>>>
>>
>> Dan Rather would love you.
>
> Had they forged the documents in 2000, Gore would be President now, as
> there was no "blogosphere" to speak of at that time -- that
alone endears
> the bloggers to me for all time. I do worry though, about what would have
> happened this time had CBS not put the documents up on their Web site? How
> would they have been taken down if they hadn't?  captures of the broadcast>
>
>> Actually the people writing the blogs tend to watch each other - and will
>> correct each other as needed.
>
> As needed, and at light speed. Those blogs that are not credible, are not
> taken seriously and have, or soon won't, no traffic. It occurs to me that
> Bob is thinking "personal web log" when he thinks of blogs without
> acknowledging (or perhaps realizing) that it's a much bigger thing than
> people spilling their personal guts in public as it was when the name
> "blog" first hit the scene.
>
> Bottom-line: I'd rather read the take of an acknowledged liberal like Josh
> (TPM) and disagree with almost everything he says, than blindly accept a
> NYTimes story with a reporter dancing around pretending to be unbiased.
> Which is not to say that we don't need the NYTimes et. al., to provide
> grist for the mill -- for now, and the foreseeable future anyway.  the bloggers did cover the Tsnami stuff via local "regular folk" very
> quickly>
>

Josh is Mainstream . He is a professional columnist/writer.

Problem I have is that the mainstream media is SLOPPY and INACCURATE. I'm
not as concerned about bias as long as they are accurate. I blame it too
much on wanting the story out first and a beancounter mentality. Blogs also
put stories out with doing a lot of verification. Still blogs are a good
secondary news source. I find lots of things I overlook in the press.

Bob Lewis

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