John Hartigan, chief executive for News Limited

topic posted Thu, July 2, 2009 - 6:00 AM by  B
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Part of the Murdoch empire.

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" Citizen journalists, he says, simply don’t have the resources to bring us reliable news. They lack not only expertise and training but access to decision makers and reliable sources.

The difference, he says, between professionals and amateurs is that bloggers don’t go to jail for their work – they simply aren’t held accountable like real reporters.

Like Keating’s famous “all tip and no iceberg”, it could be said that the blogosphere is all eyeballs and no insight."

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Oh I'm sorry I think that the bloggers have been doing a much better job with the truth than the MSM. And as for access to insiders. Do you really need a degree in journalism to take and publish the memo from the political office? Are you a news man or part of the propaganda machine?
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