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News & rumours of news

Thursday, 4th September 2008

Mickey Kaus on how the latest kerfuffle is affecting the way reporters do their job:

We are now, I think, making the next logical leap, to a model in which unverified rumours about public figures are discussed and assessed not just in the blogosphere or the unrespectable tabs but in the MSM itself. I say welcome! With NYT reporters and bloggers all openly discussing unverified reports,, whatever is true will become un-unverified that much faster. And the public is proving, by and large, to be quite capable of distinguishing between stories that are true and rumours that are still being investigated.

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