After all stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com is a well-known and trusted news source.
Maybe you ought to check out the blog. It’s probably not what you think.
OK, here's the CNN article, which also notes "A CNN records search showed that Dubose had more than 60 arrests. He was a father to 13 children".
The blogs just aggregate for a nation-wide audience all the news which the MSM would prefer to bury.
Given that Walter Duranty, Jason Blair, and Brian Williams are representative of what the press has always been it takes a real nut burger to rant about legacy news having higher standards than blogs.
Compared to what the Washington Post or NY Times?