Remember the
"Rumsfeld bans phone cameras" story that UPI and AFP ran and all the media picked up?
Xeni at Boing Boing called the defense department and debunked the story and I updated my entry as a lot of the mass media were still going to press with the story. Did they print any corrections? I didn't see any. And this isn't an isolated incident. I've seen many cases where blogs have fact-checked and vetted stories that the media have just passed over.
I'm not blaming the mass media for their lack of ability be as nimble as blogs, but characterizing bloggers as a bunch of amateurs with no news value is really silly. Particularly annoying are the articles that seem to be picking a fight with the blogs.
Maybe as Mahatma Ghandi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Dan, maybe you and
"We the Media" better get over hear before the real fighting starts."
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