Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 361 Editor's Choice: 12
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Oh,poor poco
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]At the risk of feeding a troll:
Who does Mr. Greenwald et al's fact checking? Please don't say the readers. They are far to busy/lazy for that. Who penalizes him when he "gets it wrong"?
Well, if you've read Glenn for any length of time, you'd know that he is very quick to issue corrections and apologize for errors. These errors are indeed pointed out by readers. So far, I haven't seen a need for him to be penalized for mistakes, because he corrects them. Now, Bill Kristol, on the other hand, has been completely and utterly wrong on pretty much everything having to do with his supposed area of expertise, and who has penalized him for getting things wrong?
Who does he answer to that could shut him down if necessary?
You can refer to the Salon masthead. But ultimately, Joan Walsh is responsible.
Whose fortune will be lost if he is discredited. No one. Zero restraint. Is that good? If you think that bloggers have to be truthful or correct to be popular and successful, you need only study the methods of Joseph Goebbels. Hitler had possibly the world's greatest blogger.
Godwin's Law comes up in the first paragraph. Wow.
The MSM may not say what we like, but it is nearly impossible for it to simply spout lies concerning facts that are of great importance, which can be checked, and get by without recompense or critique.
Oh really? See reference to Bill Kristol above. The New York Times has admitted to publishing lies about Iraqi WMD that were falsehoods of very great importance that could have been checked and were not. The people pointing out that these were clearly lies were not given MSM forums. In fact, the MSM spouts lies that are handed to them by Republicans routinely. Just last week the Post claimed that the Democrats had caved on the Iraq supplemental funding bill. That was a lie. Do you think Shilleagh got a pay cut for running that lie. Did Wolf Blitzer lose his job for running the swift boat content over and over again?
It's good that we have "left" media and "right" media. They keep each other in check. On the other hand, as has been proven by the profane, slanderous blogosphere, no one keeps the bloggers in check unless they go so far as to incite near rioting or suicide.
ROFL. Sitting in the basements, all alone, in their underwear makes it hard to get the riot thing together.
Tell me, what reason would a blogger have to tell the truth, if telling a lie would make him more popular?
That's an inadvertently interesting point. The reason the rightwing blogosphere is largely comment-free is because they do so routinely lie that the feedback that exists in the comment rich left blogosphere would expose them. So the answer is blogger lie when they can't be publicly called on it. If the CAN be publicly called on it, and they do lie repeatedly, people stop reading them. Politico is running this risk at the moment, as their biggest lie--a promise of transparency--is now being exposed.
Okay? That just felt like a teaching moment.
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HuffPo Comments
[Read the article: A beautiful mosaic of anti-blogger hatred]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I put a couple up earlier, and they spent some time in moderation. Nothing was edited or removed, though. There's nothing, IMO, wrong with heavy moderation, especially at a high traffic site. Most successful blogs are moderated.