Blogs have editorial standards depending on the expertise and capacity of the blogger. In this example, Michael Barone, the editor of the Almanac of American Politics for 30 years has a blog [ http://www.usnews.com/usnews/opinion/baroneblog/home.htm].
Editors should be careful in using blogs as in any source as to reliability of the blogger and to make sure we are quoting both sides of the story. In this case, having blogs as one of our sole sources is a mistake especially when there is a clear partisan bias to the blogs selected.
The same can be said about the "mainstream media". The New York Times has gotten things wrong such as Jayson Blair. So does the BBC - its coverage of the Iraq War was appalling and it was the worst offender in highly exaggerated coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In short, we should be careful in our use of sources in whatever form they take.
The problem with these articles in my view is that they are not NPOV and that they do not use the most reliable sources available.
Regards
Keith
Keith User:Capitalistroadster
On 10/22/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
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JAY JG wrote:
From: Alphax alphasigmax@gmail.com
Delirium wrote:
Alphax wrote:
What about if the author has blogged about (some current event)
that
they witnessed or attended?
That still seems like a shaky source. That's basically saying,
"some
guy on the internet claims he saw this happen". If I "blogged"
about
witnessing an event on my Wikipedia User page, could we cite that
as
a
source?
What's the difference between a blog and any other page on the
internet?
Blogs have no editorial standards, no way of verifying that anything
on
them is correct, true, relevant, notable, reliable, sane. Blogs are only good as sources for articles about those specific blogs.
You still haven't answered my question: what's the difference between a blog and ANY OTHER WEBSITE?
There's little difference between a blog and any other *personal* website. There is a huge difference between a blog and the website of a respected news source (e.g. New York Times, BBC), or the site of a publically traded corporation, or that of a major non-profit organization, or of an encyclopedia, or a government website, or a UN website, or etc.
All websites are not created equal.
Jay.
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