Just look at the political blogs. They are rife with innuendo outright lies and falsehoods. It doesn’t matter what your politics there will be someone blogging lies about your position. It’s sad that people can’t realize the difference between the lies in the blogs and true reporting. A lot of the blogging is simply free propaganda.

Just because it written doesn’t mean it’s true. I really enjoy reading the Twins blogs on this site but that doesn’t mean I believe everything I read. In fact I’ve read some really wacky stuff but all in all I find them to be entertaining and educational. Thanks for the hard work folks.

Only in a fantasy world of journalism schools.

“Some of us may have had that information as confidential, but apparently others had the OK to publish Sunday.”

I wish more journalists would acknowledge the reality that sources run the show. Readers have a “right to know” only if the source approves or the source is a one-off who the reporter won’t likely need in the future.

” The “real” newspeople are professionals and you should nearly always consider their information to be far more credible than anything you read in a blog.”

This is mostly nonsense. There are plenty of professionals whose information is not as trustworthy as some bloggers. They aren’t paid to give people accurate information. They are paid to attract an audience with entertaining writing. That usually includes maintaining some appearance of credibility, but nothing more. The credibility of a news source has little to do with whether or how the author gets paid. That is particularly true of sports writers. There is a reason they aren’t called sports “reporters”.