Pampered, arrogant Old Media “journalists” think that blogs are only good for slinging lowbrow gossip and snarky commentary free from the burdens of fact checkers, editors, and professional standards. Wait, aren’t they? Anyway the Latin America correspondents for the LA Times have their own blog now, and the results are about what you’d expect.
Seriously, take a look at reporter Chris Kraul's Monday blog post on the magic laptop allegations and then read his newspaper story on the same subject today. Can you spot the difference? Right, yeah, in the blog, Kraul manages to pass on all the funniest speculation about the laptop docs from the Latin American tabloids but in the article he sprinkles in a few paragraphs like this one:
There has been no independent analysis of the laptops or their contents, and some analysts have cautioned that information described as being taken from them could be part of a government-sponsored disinformation program to discredit Ecuador and Venezuela.Haha you think? In other words “by the way what you just read is probably bullshit.” My point is you’re always better off being a blogger. Or throwing your computer out the window and developing a personal relationship with drugs.
