Commentary: Armchair warriors By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large

Commentary: Armchair warriors

Published: April 8, 2010
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large

WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) — It is becoming increasingly difficult to sort fact from fiction between legacy media and the new media of libel-proof blogs sans editors. Blogmocracy is a time-consuming exercise in democracy. Media-watchers say to be well informed and up to speed one must scan at least 100 blogs. Also “Wikileaks,” a Web-based investigative journalism outfit that recently released a video that showed a U.S. Apache helicopter opening fire on a group of men, killing 12, including two Reuters employees, on July 12, 2007. The Apache carried a gun camera. Wikileaks posted 38 minutes of what the gun was doing.

Few have time to keep up with more than one or two blogs. Thus, the one-graph scan of the print media online coupled with the television news scroll is how many stay “informed.”
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