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When Blog Networks Make News, Silence Abounds
1sockchuck writes "It's been a bad week for transparency and disclosure in the blogosphere, demonstrating that once blogging starts making money, the rules change. Nick Douglas was dismissed from ValleyWag, Jason Calacanis bolts from AOL, and co-founder Duncan Riley abruptly departs from b5media. Where do we get the real story? From The New York Times, or not at all. If we've come to expect honesty and straight talk from blogging icons, it's because so many blogospheric leaders have told us we should. And now suddenly we're getting the snarky insider accounts of blogospheric dirt from The New York Times?"
that New York Times reporters try their best to report factually and objectively despite their personal biases, while bloggers like Instapundit and DailyKos write to defend and trumpet their personal biases.
And if we're going to play "own your bias," the first place you might want to look is in a mirror:
The "anything to hurt Bush" reporting that has increasingly come to characterize the paper in the last four years...I now await the usual Slashdot downmodding of non-liberal political posts.
I'm not exactly seeing a lot of independently verifiable facts in your post.
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