True or false: Blogs always tell it straight

KRT ^ | Sep. 18, 2004 | HOWARD WITT

[Former Military Chick]

"I've seen some criticism that bloggers are not edited, and that's true - we don't have traditional editors," said Johnson, the Los Angeles blogger. "But the more important point is that with a readership of several thousand at any moment, if I post something incorrect or debatable, I'll receive e-mail within minutes. I've actually got thousands of editors looking over my shoulder."

I think he has a point that there are many looking over the shoulders of bloggers.

[bcoffey]

You wrote: "I think he has a point that there are many looking over the shoulders of bloggers."

A very valid point, too. It's the same sort of "checks and balances" we who write software in the open source world have come to rely on.

[Freepdonia]

Nevertheless, many leading newspaper editors and TV directors are generally disdainful of bloggers, who assume the mantle of the free press but operate outside of traditional journalistic rules that aspire to fairness, balance and rigorous editing and fact-checking.

Son, that was a joke, wasn't it? I say, wasn't it?

[writer33]

"Nevertheless, many leading newspaper editors and TV directors are generally disdainful of bloggers, who assume the mantle of the free press but operate outside of traditional journalistic rules that aspire to fairness, balance and rigorous editing and fact-checking."

Excuse me you elitest reporter. The facts on the internet are the same facts that you report in your biased paper. In fact, here on the internet, we don't forge documents.

[Mjaye]

I just wish they'd quit confusing Buckhead with a blogger. And if he does happen to have a blog, he was FReeping, not blogging, when he 47'd CBS.

[MisterRepublican]

All bloggers are right-wing, extremist operatives that recieve daily instructions from Karl Rove. Karl Rove SHALL RULE THE WORLD!!!!!HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH(EVIL LAUGH)

[writer33]

Nope. It's the way that journalist look at Americans in general, much less bloggers. What they don't realize is that our facts must be the same as their facts. It's all about the facts. Just the facts, ma'am.

[SERKIT]

"I think he has a point that there are many looking over the shoulders of bloggers."

The professional term would be "peer review". Bloggers are just slightly less formal.

[ApesForEvolution]

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[js1138]

They're digging the whole deeper. FR is transparently Republican and conservative. Anyone posting here for any length of time is assumed to be conservative. Anyone trying to get Dan Rather fired can be assumed to be conservative.

What's the point?

[isthisnickcool]

If I understand things correctly "Buckhead" is a Freeper. Why the talk about "bloggers"? FreeRepublic is not a "blog".

As far as truth here on FR if you lie you die. Falsehoods just don't stand here.

[ApesForEvolution]

For all the CYA the RATs are trying to muster, this professor says this: "if people are reading only right-wing blogs, they will think (John) Kerry is a traitor, and there's no plausible view of that."

I have enough evidence to convict John Fing Kerry of being a Communist American traitor every day of the week and twice on Sunday...

[Read2Know]

I think we will begin to see a series of soft attacks by the mainstream media on the blogosphere.
Particularly after the C-BS/Rather scandal. They ain't happy about this!!

[ApesForEvolution]

The MSM is no longer quite the effective Democommierat tool it used to be?! LOL BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! We're not all sheeple you 'journalist' propaganda tools!

[lonestar]

"While some of these individuals are making a serious and thoughtful contribution to our global dialogue, too many simply contribute to the sense that we're in the midst of an opinion-ridden free-for-all," New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. told an audience at Kansas State University last week.

I wonder how this guy views Michael Moore's "documentaries."

[facedown]

"If left-wing people are just reading left-wing blogs," Sunstein said, "they will end up thinking that Bush is basically a criminal, which no reasonable view can sustain.

The pitch.

Or if people are reading only right-wing blogs, they will think (John) Kerry is a traitor, and there's no plausible view of that.

Swing and a miss, strike out!

[stevem]

As Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman) once said, "Don't sugar coat it, Blogs, tell it straight."

[farsighted]

Except for that Atrios crap. BWHAHAHAHAHAH. What a collection of loosers ..... hugh!

[bjmorris]

Funny enough, most bloggers aren't paid to do it. Yet, they are still far more accurate than the supposed "real" news people who "report" news for a living.

[GoLightly]

What do we know about Howard Witt? We know he got this piece published, but do we know anything about his personal life? Would knowing things about his life change anything about this story?

Howard, you probably don't lower yourself to reading anything posted here, but if you do & you read my response, send me a private message. I'd like to interview you.