Comments on: Is the LA Times Link Baiting Bloggers?

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 02:28:23 +0000

Half the stuff in the LAT is just pure BS.

The other half isn’t that good.

By: John Dalton

John Dalton — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:07:40 +0000

It seems journalists, in arguing the value of newspapers over blogs, miss an essential point. Blogs are not replacing reporting; they are replacing editors. Every newspaper article of interest is now subject to, pick a number, a 100,000? a million editors?. Some of these are able to provide valuable quality assurance to the process by spotting and correcting errors, omissions and biases.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 21:03:28 +0000

Guess I was right to let my subscription lapse. I get more (and better) LA news from the web anyway.

By: rarango

rarango — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:34:33 +0000

Skube for President: he’s clearly a uniter (Kos and Ace of spades!) What a weenie.

By: M. Simon

M. Simon — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:05:26 +0000

Walter Duranty will always be with us.

With blogs we can check on good old Walter.

By: fox3

fox3 — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:53:43 +0000

Has anyone found one of these fact checkers or editors that are competent to report (NOT comment) on what they publish?

From my reading of the LSM (what little I do anymore) it seems the only thing they have a corner on the market on is agenda (transparent) and dishonesty.

They have become the enemy within, the real journalist of yesteryear must have hit warp 10 spinning in their graves at this point.

By: John Richardson

John Richardson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:00:37 +0000

Gotta laugh when I read that Skube taught at Elon. While they have greatly improved in the last 20 years, we used to joke “if you can’t go to college, go to Elon”.

By: Matt Knowles

Matt Knowles — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:11:20 +0000

Absolutely horrid color choice, reading soft blue type on a white background… had to stop.