On 06/09/06, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 16:35:19 -0700, "Matt Brown" morven@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.