On Apr 17, 2008, at 8:51 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fact-checking takes time, and editors must be paid, so accurate > reporting is > time- and labor-intensive. Today's blogosphere, which rewards > unschooled > right-wing loudmouths who spew half-truths and worse, has no > interest in > that.
As opposed to the highly respectable national and international media, all of which reward "news" whether it be from right- or left- wing loudmouths well-schooled enough in how to sell it. > In short, you get what you pay for. You mean the public buys what the media sell. I think there's a fundamental difference between telling the news, and selling it. > Online articles are sometimes by non- > experts So are many newspaper articles. > and are not edited, but they're free. Everyone wants things free > nowadays but complains when it does not meet their standards of > accuracy. Absolutely! And rightly so. Just because it's free doesn't mean that I can't complain about the spread of misinformation. DR [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
