Sure, blogs are fun if you want to want to check on your favorite TV shows or you just like stalking some co-worker's ex-girlfriend, but let's get serious here - they're not for real news.
Look at this article, which makes the MSM outlets that carried the original stories look like chumps. Somebody claims Sarah Palin wouldn't know Africa from Chad, and the whole thing gets splayed across the net. Problem is, it's not true.
It's like Daily Kos, the uber liberal blog that loves to talk smack about any and everything anti-conservative and anti-Republican. My liberal friends (me, with liberal friends?) loved the story about Trig, Palin's newest child, actually being her daughter's. Sites like Daily Kos put it online and helped spread the misconception around. People are still spouting off about the "news" and I bet some of you out there still refuse to believe that it might have been false.
Here's a gem of wisdom for all you blog kids out there - just because it's online doesn't make it true.
The Africa debacle, Trig's true mother and other mindless pieces of gossip only hurt the public discourse. Some may continue to say that newspapers are dinosaurs and should quickly follow their example, but the foolishness that some blogs put out there proves that wrong.
People still need a credible news source that provides information upon which they can rely upon again and again. Some blogs can do this; most can't.
Contrary to popular belief, disseminating BS doesn't equal news.
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