A Comment About

News Without Reporters

March 23, 2008 - 12:15 am - by Steve Boriss
Steve Boriss
2008-03-23 23:28:44

Richard Miniter,
“Would unpaid bloggers spend thousands of dollars wining and dining staffers…?” If these staffers have a story they want told (and who doesn’t?), the Internet allows them to tell it themselves. These staffers can also “comb through miles of documents” better than reporters can. Actually bloggers with specialized knowledge can, too. Think the typewriter font experts who busted Dan Rather and his forged documents.