Tim Ireland on tabloids, media, blogs and politics
We suck
Via Abnu and this fabbo post at gawker.com, we find this article at FOXNews, belittling bloggers. (Well, leftist bloggers. Right-wing bloggers are pyjama-clad champions of the oppressed.)
The former link contains the following quote, which I’d like to share with you: Bloggers also can operate outside the “rules” and standards – in terms of attribution, verification of sources, objectivity and concerns for libel and lawsuits – that are supposed to govern traditional journalism.
Did you catch that? FOXNews seems to suggest that they have to play by the rules. Well, not quite. FOXNews seems to suggest that they have to play by the “rules”…
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