CBC's “The Current”'s reply re: blogging

Here is the reply I just received from the producers of “The Current” to the e-mail that I posted earlier today:

Subject: Re: Your story on blogging and credibility
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:40:54 -0500
From: The Current
To: Alexander O'Neill


Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention ... your feedback
is something we really do appreciate. There's lots here ... I will make
sure to pass this on to our host and staff to look at for their
consideration.

Sorry to be so short ... but I did want you to know that we received
your letter and will pass it on to the people here a the Current.

Take care,

Lisa Ayuso
The Current

Mostly what bugged me about the story was that accusations were repeated as fact, and they didn't seem to look below the surface of the ‘background noise’ of a story. The question of how one can sort out reliable information from the thousands of blogs writing about current events is definitely worth exploring. But let's be careful to establish a proper context, and also not take as given that journalists have some overarching code in the face of recent events.

Anyway it was nice to get a reply, and it will be interesting to see how CBC handles the subject of blogs in the future.

Oh well, that's enough metablogging for today, time to go out and shovel some snow.
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