I first read this at Conservative Treehouse, before it was posted here. Since “Journalism” is done/toast, Forums and “just a bloggers” have to pick up the slack and remember the rules learned in High School, at least THREE (3) sources on an article. “Me, Myself, and I” don’t count. It is amazing among MSM journalists and some forums, the articles are just linked and not fact-checked. Journalists have become amazingly lazy, but understandable since they have to wait for the talking points to be faxed in from the White House.
Yup, fact checking is seemingly a lost art in “new journalism.” And, worse, what often happens is that site A will post an unsourced, anonymous story, sites B, C, and D will pick up the story, and site X will then report that “B, C, and D report ______,” without mentioning that it all traces back to a single shaky report.