megnut.com - february 2002: "My point is we shouldn't be so quick to say that Journalists get it right and webloggers don't. I think the weblog articles are a good example of the often shallow approach taken by mainstream media towards "quirky" topics and demonstrate that fact-checking may consist of copying "facts" from previous articles on the same topic. Of course, it's easy for me to spot mistakes in these stories because I participated in the events being described. "

Any article I've ever read about a situation I knew as an insider has had significant differences from the reality I was witness to.  Every person I've talked to who's been an insider to a published article has made the same observation. I'm certainly no fan of deconstruction, but every story has a storyteller. If you think story is independent of the teller, you understand neither.

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