Pity the poor blogs who snag these bastardized “news” stories
and then try to re-write them in hope of getting hits.
They peddle twice-warmed-over bullshit.
Think carefully about what’s happening though. People who will only use material from these censored sources (folks like Rush Limbaugh and most “conservative” pundits) are automatically self-censoring as well, because the only people who CAN give them the unfiltered stuff are people who don’t care to be “government approved”.
Blogs are where you can get new information that’s not censored. Unfortunately, because anybody can have a blog there is little way for people to know who is trustworthy and who not. That means if you run a blog and want to be considered credible you have to document everything. Which is good, but it also bogs down the issues in minutiae. If the reporters at NYT, for instance, had to show copies of every document that supports what they say, give the names and copies of all communications with the sources they rely on, etc.... who would ever talk to them, and who would ever slog through their reports?
And yet that’s what blog authors have to do. It’s almost a no-win situation because if you document everything it’s so tedious you lose your readers, and if you don’t document everything you’re not credible.
That’s where we’re at though. It’s not going to change anytime soon either.