On 7/10/06, Fastfission fastfission@gmail.com wrote:
- 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.