Well, bear in mind something: FR has aggressively vetted blogs and media organs over the three decades it’s been in existence.
Those which have passed our muster have proven themselves by their integrity of reporting. Those which haven’t are rightfully kicked to the ash heap of history.
Hell, during RatherGate, the MSM tried to mock us into oblivion by calling us “bloggers in pajamas”. Look how that backfired on them.
Oh I agree. But even some of those vetted sites have been attacked. And recently. Which is part of the problem.
The other part of the problem is that how are legit and accurate blogs that are not pimping ever going to achieve viability when they are not given the chance and attacked merely because they are ‘blogs’...with no thought given to their accuracy at all? And it happens daily. We all see it and a lot of people bitch regularly about it happening.
I get the blog cop thing. It serves a purpose. But when you end up with a ‘blog police state’ for lack of a better term, that is no good for nobody.
Pimps and BS blogs. Yup. Book’em Dano. But guilty until proven innocent isn’t a great idea.