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Originally Posted by A_PoMo
I read an article in the paper today where the author was complaining about how web 2.0 is killing print news media like newspapers. his reasons were exactly what you said here. on the net anybody can say anything they want. in the news media, according to him, there is a vetting process that secures the veracity of statements before they are made. plus he was saying that it's the prof media that digs into the truth of things that 'pajama clad bloggers' are unable to do from their laptops. it made alot of sense to me.
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This would of course explain the constant stream of misinformation,
false reporting and even completely
faked stories that have caused so much scandal in the print media and their television counterparts.
The "
pajama clad bloggers" like
Charles Johnson were the ones who exposed the fake memos that Dan Rather and CBS tried to use to turn an election.
Check out the
Reuters Fauxtography Scandal. Or take a gander at Rather's "
Fake but Real!" memo woes. It was Johnson's 10 minutes of typing, clad only in his pajamas that exposed the mainstream media's "vetting process" for what it is.
Or what about the
media assault against Israel that seemed to be rather curiously timed with Hezbollah's attacks back in 2006. While Israel was getting hammered by rocket fire we in the states were getting hit with a barrage of outright lies from our "prof media that digs into the truth of things."
That "truth" sure looks like a pack of lies to me.