New York Times’ Brad Stone reports, “The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.”
Dan Radmachercriticizes mainstream media, accusing “even the mainstream print media” for “too often” falling down on the job. “Many reporters also believe they’ve done their job if they simply quote both sides of an issue — as if most issues only have two sides — with no further effort to get at the truth of the matter.”