Ana Marie Cox has summed up blogging nicely, in noting to a conference on the weekend that blogs provide a quicker response to breaking news by major media outlets, with OJR’s Mark Glaser noting “Things get picked up by bloggers that take awhile to get picked up by the mainstream media”.
Mindy McAdams, a University of Florida journalism professor, urged bloggers to adhere to ethical standards held by mainstream journalists; “Our credibility is suffering with so many people rushing to publish things without checking them out…it doesn’€™t give people who call themselves journalists an excuse to not check out the information.”
We say: ethical standards held by mainstream journalists? When did conspiracy to withhold news and manufacture stories become ethical?
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