David Weinberger comments on Rebecca MacKinnon’s experience with a Newsweek article that bungled basic facts about her.

Joho the Blog: Rebecca on doing business with China – and Newsweek’s sloppiness

Rebecca also blogs about Newsweek’s sloppy characterization of her. As she notes, it’s not a big deal, except that the MSM [Mainstream Media] keep telling us that they’re better than bloggers because they have fact checkers, they’re professionals, they get their facts right, etc.

Yeah, that’s what they like to claim. Still have to actually work at it, though. One of my “favorite” things about Fox is how they, more than any other “mainstream” network, seem to rely on “pasing comments” and scores of unsubstantiated innuendos and “facts” . They basically run without footnotes, and provide many “fact checking bloggers” with a lot of blog fodder.