I feel like a proud sibling, beaming at my big sister's accomplishment and her recognition for same: Bloggers drive hoax probe into Bush memos From the article:
..."Blogs have been characterized as places where people just go to mouth off, but what this brings out is the ability of blogs to actually help report a story," said Paul Grabowitz, professor of new media at the University of California at Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.
The incident could help legitimize the role that blogs and other nonprofessional online writers are already playing in the everyday business of news reporting....
This devleoping story proves that blogs can be either a partner or a tireless adversary of big media, depending on where the truth might reside.
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