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This is what was lost when blogs overwhelmed journalism. Fact-checking, accountability and misaligned curation but I am hopeful blogs will evolve over time to i
by twidlit 16y ago
This is what was lost when blogs overwhelmed journalism. Fact-checking, accountability and misaligned curation but I am hopeful blogs will evolve over time to incorporate them back.
- mahmud 16y agoStartup coverage has always been done without the slightest of fact checking. Read your local bigtown paper sometime, and see how bubbly they are about startups, specially local ones.
- Cushman 16y agoThey already have. You're reading the fact checking right now. News corporations may be more consistent, but do you really think they're more trustworthy?
- amadiver 16y agoWho's watching the watchmen? How do you know that this blog has their facts straight? Have you read any rebuttals to this post? (Already, certain issues that seemed outrageous have been deflated by other commenters.) *For the record, I feel like being "evil" means to prey on human weakness, for which it seems like the site in question and PayDay loans generally fit that bill.
- Cushman 16y agoWho's watching the watchmen? How do you know that this blog has their facts straight? Have you read any rebuttals to this post? I can't answer those questions any better than you already have: (Already, certain issues that seemed outrageous have been deflated by other commenters.)
- amadiver 16y agoI liked this answer enough to upvote it, but my honest question (the parent) has been downvoted. Could someone share some insight why? I switched from Reddit to HN because I thought this community was less prone to stuff like that, but maybe I'm being too sensitive?