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See - your post is a perfect example of fact-checking in the blogosphere.

Great, rational sentiment is posted. I presume you googled to see if the quote was accurate and with whom it originated, and voila! (voy-lah as they say in Rio Linda) the truth surfaces and the "editing" (albeit now a very public and very collaborative function) is properly accomplished.

This is actually a wonderful and FAIR revision of the pseudo "consensus" nonsense that I have seen foisted on groups by people who have or want to control a situation. As previously practiced, the group was manipulated into settling for (by "consensus") what the power brokers wanted in the first place. But the blogosphere allows everyone to be equal and removes the power brokers from their priveleged pedestal - yet "consensus" is truly achieved!

The blogosphere allows people to truly filter through the information, fact-check, and reach a group conclusion, with EVERYONE having an opportunity to post and provide information for fact checking and to weigh in on where the truth is.

"The blogosphere allows people to truly filter through the information, fact-check, and reach a group conclusion, with EVERYONE having an opportunity to post and provide information for fact checking and to weigh in on where the truth is."

I agree with all this except the part about reaching a group conclusion; we don't always do that, nor should we. But I agree that forums like this allow for much more fact checking than passively sitting in front of your TV and listening to Dan Rather. And people here DO care about the truth - comments like, "Is that true?" and "What's the source?" or "You can't trust DEBKA" are standard around here. And liberals would be amazed that Freepers do not lap up every comment by Hannity and O'Reilly and Rush as gospel; all of those guys have strong critics here.

See - your post is a perfect example of fact-checking in the blogosphere.

And -- check it out -- both posts mixed editorial sentiment in with the news content. Just like the networks.