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| | Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld |
 | | Besides introducing valuable new sources of information to readers, these sites are also forcing their proprietors to act like journalists: choosing stories, judging the credibility of sources, writing headlines, taking pictures, developing prose styles, dealing with readers, building audience, weighing libel considerations, and occasionally conducting informed investigations on their own. |
 | | When news organizations on the ground later conducted their surveys of Afghan civilian deaths, most set the number at closer to 1,000. |
 | | First of all, 90 percent of any new form of expression tends to be mediocre (think of band demos, or the cringe-inducing underground papers of years gone by), and judging a medium by its worst practitioners is not very sporting. |
| www.cjr.org /issues/2003/5/blog-welch.asp (3489 words) |
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