Thursday, September 4, 2008

Gatekeepers in the digital age

While strolling today’s headlines online (um, I guess technically the stroll happened yesterday), I came across this little ditty on washingtonpost.com.

Using Monday’s news that Internet rumors forced the could-be vice-president to admit her 17-year-old, unmarried daughter is preggers as the news peg, the article says bloggers are now helping traditional media guard the gate, so to speak. And, the blogosphere sometimes does a better job at the post, according to the article.

Is the power of the pen being usurped by the credence of the keystrokes? Maybe not completely, but there sure seems to be a lot of sharing going on.

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