Washington Post on Blogger Bias
In an interesting reversal of the usual pattern, the print media is now reporting on gossip about bloggers. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports on a contentious debate among political bloggers about confessing their biases while covering their subjects of interest.
While nothing as formal as the standard guidelines for journalists has emerged for bloggers, it seems each blogging community is developing a set of social norms that guide appropriate behaviors for disclaimers and disclosure.
With even broadcast media recognizing the importance of bloggers in promoting (and distributing!) their words, and blog posts being repurposed for news stories, readers of the medium may start to expect a straightforward way to find out a particular blogger's biases.
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