And look, I’m arguing simply that most of the autowittering on about blogs and their supposed reams of inaccuracies and unchecked facts and anonymous sources and OMG THE HORROR TAKE THEIR PENS AWAY is based mostly on defensiveness and projection. No matter where or how your work is published it is done by a person and thus will be full of mistakes and confusion in a sitch like this, I don’t care if you work for the Daily Telegraph or are Twittering from your kitchen.
Mistakes should be corrected and we should all think very hard about how to do it better next time, twas ever thus, but maybe the people wanking about needing a blogger code of conduct every time somebody steps out of line in a Kos diary should read Shafer’s piece and calm the hell down. This doesn’t need a manual, and convening a committee to write one and edit and photocopy and distribute it to people who will use it as a coffee coaster … I mean, go ahead if it makes you feel better, but you could just make people write “I will try harder not to fuck up and get stuff wrong” 100 times on the white board and call it a day. Result would be about the same.
Via Romenesko.
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