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Re: this is why the press needs regulating
The thing is, while I realise that those two papers lie (indeed, both have had to retract stories because of it), I am not sure I believe the blogs any more.
Why? Because while you can argue that newspaper regulation is pretty useless in this country (and I would agree), there is absolutely NO regulation of blogs. People can set up a blog saying anything and as long as they sound convincing, people will believe them. Look at the guy on youtube who claimed to have found a way to get infinite power out of a coiled extension cable just by plugging the plug into one of the sockets (and even produced video "evidence" of it). Some people believed him even though they KNOW it's physically impossible.
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