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Originally Posted by Stuart
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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Correct, but the difference is the amount of people that view blogs compared to headline stories.
The reason this story got caught is this lady has appeared in other news stories as well. She got recognised.
Other thing to bear in mind is good blogs have at least some evidence attached to them whilst modern story reporting in papers is generally factless completely or just sourced by a minister who himself is lieing.
The fact remains newspapers are publishing more and more stories that are without facts and getting away with it, they can highly manipulate the population. They also seem to conveniantly ignore certian things that should be reported, although thats a different subject to this post.