August 20, 2007
Novak: Bloggers Suck!
I really wish Hawkins had gone after Robert Novak for his dissing bloggers. Sure, there's a lot of crap on the internet, but so what? There's also a lot of crap in the New York Times, and presumably they do fact check.
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Robert Novak: I think it [blogging] had a hugely negative impact for several reasons. A lot of the bloggers just put out whatever comes to their mind....Read the rest. As opposed to the MSM which puts a high value on.....er....what exactly? When even carefully crafted and researched pieces are full of errors or bias, then there is something fundamentally wrong with the methodology. At least blogging is an iterative process where we fact check each other. Instead of one or two editors we have an army of editors always ready to pounce when we make the slightest error.The other aspect is that good, honest reporters are told that it's not enough to do their story for their station or their newspaper, that they have to get out and do a blog on it right away. It puts a high credence on speed, rather than care. A lot of things are said without due diligence being given to how accurate they are and how complete they are.
And unlike the MSM none of us are masquerading as 'objective' journalists. Our agendas are clearly known and readers are usually sophisticated enough to tell the differences between our own blustering opinions about the facts and the facts themselves.
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