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Some on line were simply trying to make sense of what happened. "Have we entered an era where our lives can be destroyed by a pack of wolves hacking at their keyboards with no oversight, no editors, and no accountability?" asked a blogger named Mark Coffey, 36, who says he works as an analyst in Austin, Tex. "Or does it mean that we've entered a brave new world where the MSM has become irrelevant," he asked, using blogger shorthand for mainstream media.
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How does oversight, editors, and no accountability (to profit) affect the truth?
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His own conclusion is that the mainstream media "is being held to account as never before by the strong force of individual citizens who won't settle for sloppy research and inflammatory comments without foundation, particularly from those with a wide national reach, such as Rather and Eason."
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I think this is much more on target.
At the same time, no one can believe everything they read on the internet...hell, probably most of it is made up. Yet it does provide us the opportunity to get info from other sources and a way for the 'little' man to actually get his story out against that of the main stream media.
I think that fact that proof has risen against these two large names is evidence that we need something like this to ensure the integrity of our news.