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So we have a current thread running that is about a WaPo blog that provided false reporting (possibly lies) on a fund raising effort for a school by raffling an AR-15. One of the responses, and we see this a lot, was "It's in the blog section."
This happens fairly often. I think that's the thinnest of excuses for media outlets to run some pretty horrible stuff off of their blog platforms and act as if it really is much different. We all know they support it and use their platform as media to give more voice to things they wouldn't responsibly do otherwise.
This doesn't really fly as a legitimate excuse for me. They are either a media business, or they are not. Blogs can stick with places like Daily Kos, HuffPo, Breitbart, or whatever. None of the media sites that try to pass themselves off as having any kind of integrity should run it. They can still have their official opinion news programs and such but the garbage blogs need to go away.
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This happens fairly often. I think that's the thinnest of excuses for media outlets to run some pretty horrible stuff off of their blog platforms and act as if it really is much different. We all know they support it and use their platform as media to give more voice to things they wouldn't responsibly do otherwise.
This doesn't really fly as a legitimate excuse for me. They are either a media business, or they are not. Blogs can stick with places like Daily Kos, HuffPo, Breitbart, or whatever. None of the media sites that try to pass themselves off as having any kind of integrity should run it. They can still have their official opinion news programs and such but the garbage blogs need to go away.
Thoughts?