As the Kerry rumor demonstrated, journalism experts said, bloggers and other Internet posters write by different standards than mainstream print reporters. Conventional rules of journalism dictate that information is verified before it is published; for better or worse, many Web sites don't follow the rules."There is an affirmative philosophy to the blogosphere that is very different from journalism - that philosophy is, in effect, publish first and verify later,"
They have it wrong. The difference between the internet and the MSM media is that the internet does it's processing in the open while the MSM does it behind closed doors in smoke-filled rooms with powerbrokers calling the shots.
A site like FR, with countless experts from every field one can imagine, has near immediate access both to bullsh__ detectors and truth detectors.
But the processing is out in the open where it should be if these folks actually believe in that so-called free press.
BINGO, xzins: YOU've got it precisely right.
I encourage you to immediately get out a letter to the editor stating exactly that... both to their web site, and to their paper address. Many people would appreciate seeing your words in print amplifying the Sun's story, if they would deign to print it. I suspect they would.