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Wednesday, January 09, 2002   By: Juan Paxety

Glenn Reynolds latest column is up at TechCentralStation. It covers the rise in blogs, and the stress they're causing traditional journalists.

The trouble is encapsulated in Ken Layne’s now-famous statement, “this is the Internet, and we can fact-check your ass.” Where before journalists and pundits could bloviate at leisure, offering illogical analysis or citing “facts” that were in fact false, now the Sunday morning op-eds have already been dissected on Saturday night, within hours of their appearing on newspapers’ websites.

  



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