Blogs are all some of us can afford. And God knows that the “legitimate” news sources weren’t going to post anything irrelevant like the legal requests and responses which show that Obama’s HI BC is non-valid.... That’s just way too piddly for the “legitimate” news reporters to even touch.
I always do post here as much from my blog as I am able to post, but I can’t post PDF’s which is the only way I know to get decent formatting for my in-depth content.
Sometimes posting here as opposed to my blog is problematic, though, as I found out this past week. I posted content from my blog here so that people would not have to go to my blog. I put the word “REDACTED” between the arrow signs to show info that I redacted, and the HTML here took out the arrow signs and everything between them. So the content here didn’t show the redactions. Somebody copied what was here and sent it to Al Hendershot who published it but without any of the context that would have been present if somebody had gotten it directly from my blog. As a result Hendershot posted it as if it was unsubstantiated (and undocumented) rumor, and even a dear friend with whom I have worked - Mark Gillar - publicly said it was bunk, because it was unsubstantiated. This is why sourcing materials is so important. It provides context. And that is why just posting here is NOT always the best thing to do - as I found out the hard way.
Doesn't anybody follow legal rules, common courtesy, or the standards of sourcing anymore?
I have no idea what an "Al Hendershot" is, but I can guarantee you from what you wrote here, I wouldn't trust anything I read with that name tagged to it. Who steals stuff from Free Republic and re-posts it?
This is why whenever I need to know information, I follow the links, then I search for the information on other sources, and hopefully find good dual-sourced news items to verify what I'm reading.
It's pretty slipshod to assume that someone's 3rd-hand account posted to a blog is a reasonable source of information.
BTW, why redact your own blog entries here? And if it was because of copyright, how could you have them on your blog?
Oh, this all just hurts my head thinking about it.
BTW, arrows are often problematic. Since the left and right arrows are used to delineate HTML tags, if you use them you have to properly “escape” them to have them show up directly.
And also BTW, you can avoid posting stuff that ends up wrong, if you simply DON’T mark the “already previewed” button, and then read over the preview to make sure everything translates correctly.
I’ll admit that i often just post, and then when it is screwed up I wish I hadn’t.