Blogs: The exciting and scary part of American politics

Filed as News on September 2, 2004 10:28 pm

by Duncan

Daily Press> Back in the day, someone with a hot tip or a scandalous rumor picked up a telephone and called a news reporter.

That still happens in newsrooms across the country, but now that same tipster has a far more widespread and powerful medium to get out the word. It is only a few clicks away. read more>

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  1. By A.R.Yngve posted on September 4, 2004 at 4:53 am
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    *GROAN.*

    I don’t know whether to laugh or cry when “proper” journalists bemoan the “scary” slander-and-gossip-mongering power of weblogs.

    And the press is supposed to be superior in this respect?

    I can think of one great advantage weblogs have over print media: instant corrections. In digital media, you can adjust and check sources over and over… while in a newspaper, the error stays in print. (And you can always hide away the corrections on the Obituaries page.)

    Let’s state the obvious: print journalists are scared of blogs. Hence their attempt to paint blogs as “scary”. ‘Nuff said.

    -A.R.Yngve
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