On 4/20/06, Pete Bartlett pcb21@yahoo.com wrote:
Well-established material gets book citations. New material gets journal citations. Internet memes gets blog citations. Horses for courses.
This idea is analogous to the idea of NPOV - we just provide the data and the reader does the hard work.
To some extent, this already passes. The problem lies with the word "blog". The reliability of blog sources varies - I would be happy to cite Talkingpointsmemo.com in support of the statement "Josh Marshall said..." On the other hand, the average blogger account is a far less reliable source because there is no way to verify the identify of the blogger.
However, this only applies to primary sources. If we are looking for secondary sources, we have to be more picky. Since most of what we write should be based on secondary sources, they are the real heart of verifiability
Ian