“Oh wow, that's a big blog you've got there!”
January 10, 2005
Monday
Monday
What CBS News has to say about blogs
Just reading the independent report into the Rathergate affair (download it here as a PDF), the following caught my eye:
Within hours after the Segment [sic] aired, questions about the authenticity of the Killian documents were raised, initially in an outpouring from the so-called blogosphere on the Internet.
Heh. “So-called blogosphere.” And how does the report define a blog?
A blog is a website that contains an online personal journal, often with reflections, comments, and hyperlinks provided by the writer.
Uh, how about an independent report into the sloppy reporting of this independent report? It’s not like there aren’t freely available resources where such information can be obtained…

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