Let's not even mention the fact that on the day it was debunked, CNN was running a story about a terrorist attack on Washington, D.C. that turned out to be a Coast Guard training exercise.
The exception proves the rule? A blogger righted the issue with Dan Rather a couple years ago as well. I suppose we have to look at the majority case here and the majority of bloggers are regurgitators. The news regurgitates a lot too. I have lost a lot of faith in our institution of media lately.
The journalistic ethic is going in the toilet because it doesn't spur ratings...
There are those who do their homework, have writing skills and do their utmost to produce quality content, there are the plagiarists that will copy whole blogs verbatim and pass them off as their own, in between there is everything else.
To put all bloggers in the same corner is the same as saying that all people are unethical. The 'majority' may be right, it may be off but my feeling is that there is plenty of excellent content out there and plenty of crap. I wouldn't be so fast to discard the majority, especially in other languages than English the amount of regurgitation is less than you'd expect.
Regurgitators = thinly veiled plagiarism, what in school would be called 'rewriting' instead of 'writing'.
And newspapers that print bloomberg or reuters stories are also regurgitators.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/white-house-...