This Is Just Rich

Big media wants to "control" bloggers now? Why else would AOL want to do this?

I hope no bloggers will fall for this shit.

Netscape, a pioneering Internet search portal, was reborn Thursday as an interactive news website that merges the ingenuity of users with the skills of professional journalists.

Parent company AOL launched a preliminary version of the website at www.beta.netscape.com and plans to "flip the switch" making the change official on July 1, according to spokesman Andrew Weinstein.

"We are trying to take the next step in the evolution of social media," Weinstein told Agence France-Presse. "Users are great at finding nuggets of news on the Web that you wouldn't find otherwise."

"What they aren't good at is accuracy and completeness."

In the new Netscape, users can channel stories, images, blog entries, videos or other potentially interesting tidbits to the site, where experienced news reporters will determine the page play and follow-up on their merit, Weinstein said [emphasis mine].

Oh yea? Just read here. We're accuracy and completeness impaired? Bite me!

Do a Google search on "inaccurately reported" and you get 181 returns and yes, some invlove inaccuracy on blogs, but some of the blogs are merely using those words to identify inaccuracies found in media. Some of those entries are duplicates.

Do a Google search on "inaccurate report" and you get 21,800,000 returns and yes, some invlove inaccuracy on blogs, but some of the blogs are merely using those words to identify inaccuracies found in media. Some of those entries are duplicates.

Do a Google search on "misleading reporting" and you get 1,170,000 returns and yes, some invlove inaccuracy on blogs, but some of the blogs are merely using those words to identify inaccuracies found in media. Some of those entries are duplicates.

But go to Media Matters and Beat the Press, both of whom find errors in news daily.