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To: treetopsandroofs
FWIW, sometimes blogs break news that “real” news organizations refuse to...

You may have a point there...isn't Drudge's report a blog? What the heck IS a blog, anyway? I never thought to ask that before.

18 posted on 08/22/2012 6:33:15 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: JimRed
You may have a point there...isn't Drudge's report a blog? What the heck IS a blog, anyway? I never thought to ask that before.

The MSM dismisses a site as a "blog" if the author is not an employee of a "recognized" news organization. There are blogs that mostly just reflect the opinions of their authors, and have readership of single-digits to a few hundred. Then there are blogs which produce original content, or which aggregate news from multiple sources, and which in my opinion have better claim to being "news" sites than most MSM sites.

25 posted on 08/22/2012 6:48:17 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (A deep-fried storm is coming, Mr Obama.)
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To: JimRed
What the heck IS a blog, anyway?

A mishmash of the two words "Web" and "Log".

A log kept on the web.

31 posted on 08/22/2012 6:57:59 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party of No! Nobama, No Way, No How!)
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