Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Aaaaaaaaaaron Brown
A few excerpts:
What's it like to have, say, five thousand bloggers checking your facts on the Internet?
Brown: The problem with bloggers is, who's checking the bloggers? One of the traditional and important roles of the press, which some people lovingly refer to as the mainstream media, was to act as gatekeeper.
What happens without a gatekeeper?
Brown: In another time, someone would actually check that before they reported it. Today we just kind of vomit out information-I mean the Net does-and it seeps its way into broader media coverage dangerously. So if you want to talk about fact-checkers, God bless 'em. I hope they check every word we report every day, and I hope they are equally careful with every word they report.
I guess Aaron must be thinking of the bygone era, pre Dan Rathergate, Jayson Blair, Newsweek, that great fictional paper the NY Times and others, where fact checking was actually done, verified, and re-verified.
Aaron, the gatekeeper for the bloggers will be other bloggers. By the way Libby's - did you notice Aaron mentioned God! (gasp!) Aren't you offended? Where will you go, Fox News?
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