Posted on 08/10/2006 8:10:53 PM PDT by SmithL
Wired News Pulls Freelancer's Space Stories
The hit by the "real" news media against blogs is that we don't have editors to check out our sources or verify our facts. Well, it's becoming increasingly obvious that they don't either. Green Helmet guy and Adnan Hajj join a long list of journalistic frauds, including Jayson Blair, Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite and Ted Koppel from the "glory days" of old media, even back to McCarthy era hero Walter Duranty of the New York Times.
Well, we are the fact checkers now, and we get it right far more than they do.
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