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Attack of the Blog Can Social News Networks Be Trusted?
Posted By: Dana Vinson - Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:00 PM

We all, painfully, know that it's impossible to trust the mainstream media. Many people have turned to social news sites like Digg for their daily dose of goings-ons in the world.

However, these sites are controlled by the will of the masses, and the masses are comprised of people like...people like...you and me.

Regular people.

Is "the public" a good measure of what's important in the world of news? Tonight on The Loop, our experts Annalee Newitz from Wired and David Ewalt from Forbes.com, discussed social news sites and whether or not they can truely be trusted.

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Posted by idonthack - Wednesday, March 14, 2007 4:58 PM
I do not believe that trust is the issue at stake here, rather truth. You can trust a source for your news all that you want, that does not mean that they are telling you the truth, I dont usually believe a lot of what i read, or watch until a major national media source carriers it, even then i try to take it all in stride. The only news that's really important, doesn't come frome the media, But from friends, family, and those one surrounds themselves with.
Posted by Derek Snowden - Thursday, March 15, 2007 12:42 PM
This story was actually buried on Digg so it must be a non-issue.
Posted by kobraz - Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:37 PM
Digg is cool but I think the future of social news will be using an approach similar to coRank.com, where you select your own sources.
Posted by Bewildered_Ronin - Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:36 PM
Digg is cool? No, Digg sucks. Digg got screwed by the "digg-effect" and it is currently glimmer of what it once was.

As for these sites, can they be trusted? No. most people are still gullible idiots, and giving them a computer doesn't change that. All it creates is a wealth of gullible idiots that can congregate and prop each others' false notions up.

Besides, it's not like these morons do any real reporting. They scramble across the internet and cut and paste news reports from god-knows-who without a care about credibility. All these sites do is give limelight to BS "hot topic" stories to support individual agendas for the lamest of purposes; internet chest thumping.