On 10/19/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Blogs are often self-serving or a platform for fringe opinions. People using self-published sources are usually out to promote their opinion instead of offering an unbiased article. These rules seem pretty clear and non-contradictory to me.
And often they are part of the reporting of a reputable news organization. Self-published blogs should be treated like self-published books, news blogs from a reputable news organization should be treated like other material from that reputable news organization.
Sorry for the hijack, but I just keep seeing the simplistic formulation of blog=bad over and over again, either by people who parrot policy and can't distinguish the two, or by people who use policy to further their agendas.