On 06/09/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman(a)spamcop.net> wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:35:19 -0700, "Matt
Brown" <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>Hmm? Some blogs are trustworthy, some are not,
despite what some
>people want WP:RS to read (generally, they want an 'All blogs are
>untrustworthy' stance, despite the evidence). I'd say an official
>blog of an organisation is trustworthy. Blogs where we can be sure of
>the author and that their opinions are notable are also reliable, at
>least for that individual's thoughts and opinions.
Yebbut all blogs are essentially opinion rather than
reporting. So
they might be reliable in terms of documenting the blogger's opinion
on a given topic, but in this case they are analogous to the
newspaper's leaders or opinion pieces, which are typically not used as
sources for factual data.
"typically" isn't even close to "all".
- d.