On 7/10/06, Fastfission <fastfission(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2. being printed by a respected newspaper means that
at the very least
the newspaper has put their own capital and respect on the line for a
story. This of course does not guarantee truth *in the slightest* but
does get closer to accountability of information than you have
elsewhere on the internet (where there is generally no real
accountability).
This is the crucial point. Someone can trust an article in the New
York Times about as much as they trust the New York Times itself. And
most people reading the Times would know how much they trust it based
on past experience. That way they can go some way to evaluating the
reliability of what they are reading even though they don't have the
resources to check it for factual inaccuracy, bias etc. You can't do
that with
somerandomblog.com. You might be able to do it with
blogthatswidelytrusted.com but they're few and far between.
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com