An old truism of the computer field- "garbage in, garbage out"- applies to blogging. As Waldo's noted before, if you want to be taken seriously, check your sources.
Current example: "Christianist" hate blogger Sunlit Uplands peddled a story the other day that the President wants to ban fishing. Political Net News- which ought to know better- spread Savonarola's tale. SU got it from an ESPN story ESPN subsequently corrected as being a mile or two off the mark.
Media Matters fisks the story. Not a pretty sight, but an instructive instance of what happens when you rely on crap sources.
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