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"I wish our goal were not taking off heads but digging up truth," says
Jeff Jarvis of buzzmachine.com.
Rony Abovitz, who started the
Eason Jordan controversy with his posting on forumblog.org, adds: "If you're going to do this open-source journalism, it should have a higher purpose. At times it did seem like an angry mob, and an angry mob using high technology, that's not good."
HOWARD KURTZ: "The blogosphere, with its lightning speed and rough-edged sense of justice, seems to be claiming more victims more quickly."
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Jarvis on "Reliable Sources": "Bloggers didn't want [Eason Jordan's] head, most of us didn't. We wanted the truth. We wanted to see that transcript from Davos. The issues here are that the gatekeepers are no longer gatekeepers.
(CNN.com)
