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Comment # 7 …

January 27, 2005 in Main Page | 1 comment

…  at a Comments shindig over at Allied, created by Jeneane’s noting that there’s more than one type of conversational process and culture going on in the whole thing about being a social animal online …
 
 
#7 Jan 23 2005, 08:26 pm
 
 
Wandered onto this site from Dohiyi Mir.
 
Slightly OT, but if I may… How much of this blather over credibility and ethics and “stupid shit that exposes the speaker as a moron” has there been on this? I feel really strongly that this is a Rovarian attempt to take down the very thing he could not control during the last term, and that he will smear and blow smoke and crap all over the ‘blogosphere’ just to downgrade the truth which spreads like wildfire.
 
I was new about two years ago to the blogosphere. I was driven here by an anger that was not being addressed by the main stream news. I found a community that shared facts, referenced journalists’ reports from around the world, discussed events. The main focus was to hang on hard to the truth, and not be diverted nor distracted by what was going for ‘news’.
 
This whole thing about ethics is so silly. Most people who call themselves journalists today have been bought off, or have a bias so clearly observable you can tell immediately what ’side’ they are on. The journalists who remember what pursuing the truth entails stand head and shoulders above the rest, and are scarred and bloody from doing so.
 
In reading blogs, I have followed hundreds of them, pick a few to follow. If they quest for the truth, hold true to their ideals, are honest in their opinions and change stances as more information comes through, then I read them. I will verify information by comparing several different news sites and other blogs before I will decide on whether some action/event/fact is true.
 
So the idea that some ‘bloggers’ may not tell the truth is a fact. So what? It’s like being at a party and deciding who is a blowhard and who you would like to hang with for the evening. Intelligence, honesty, truth seeking, hopefully flexibility and humor. You can’t fake these.
 
ellroon
 
 
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