We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Journalists
Ars Technica reports that beginning this week, Google News will start posting comments from people who are mentioned in news stories.
People or organizations that are mentioned in news stories can submit comments to Google to be shown alongside Google links to those stories. This means that Google News will feature original content, which it has not done in the past.
Everyone I know who has been interviewed by the press (including Mr. Examiner) says the same thing—–what they said is not what got published.
This should bring some much needed and welcomed transparency to the murky world of journalism, where it’s true because they say it’s true—-facts be damned!
Due to blogs, I think that eventually you will see even more deterioration of small town periodicals with even more reliance on National News Services than ever before. Still the problem with blogs, especially National News Sensationalists, they over dramatize and skewer the news to fit their conspiracy paranoia. One such is the Houston911 blog who is wrapped up deep into the Alex Jones conspiracy paranoia news.
http://houston911truth.org/
Those types of bloggers almost make the liberal news services seem normal.
Comment by thescoundrel | August 9, 2007