One More Chance

Mark Fitzgerald's article titled, "'Trib' Takes Another Hit on Mixed-Up Mob Pix", published yesterday at the Editor and Publisher website makes this opening:

For the second day in a row, the Chicago Tribune was explaining to readers Thursday how a picture of a respectable senior citizen ended up on its front page identified as a mobster.

This time around, it was 69-year-old janitor Stanley Swieton.

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The article triggers a commentary titled, Another MSM screw-up, from the website, The American Thinker, which opens this way:

The blogosphere is continually lectured by MSM elites that we are unreliable and inferior because we lack the infrastructure of editors and supposed fact-checkers to vet what we publish and ensure accuracy. All that we have instead is a connection to our audience, who cheerfully inform us of any mistakes, and the ability to go back and correct our posts, with a hat tip to the well-informed reader...

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The journalistic field, just like everything else, is going through change. Both articles present a good comparative view of the structured setting of mainstream media and the fluid, interactive and networked nature of blogging.