I have noticed a lot of what seems to be the MSM putting out a story that has been on the blogs for weeks.
It appears to me that, since media staffs have continually been cut lately, they look for the easy story by searching the net. They find something good on the blogs, use the idea as the seed for their story, change it so it can’t be attributed to any specific blog, and blam! instant story!
I guess there is nothing wrong with that, since they can get the opinions of many, many more people in shorter time with that method than going out in the real world and talking to people. Except that it doesn’t cover those that aren’t net-savy.
