Blogging About Blogs: Blogs-1, MSM-0

Today’s post from Neil was an interesting (and surprisingly relevant) commentary on journalism. Neil discovered an article in The Sun in which one of his past quotes from another publication was completed butchered. The quote was shortened and suddenly took on different meaning. I can’t help but laugh at the timing of this post, as it relates very well to my current areas of study in communications. The topic of proper quotations and journalism ethics has popped up frequently in the past few months.

In this post Neil’s blog is fulfilling the role of many others in pointing out flaws in the mainstream media, although his tone is not one of outrage but humor. This is another illustration of the intense scrutiny news publications now face as millions of bloggers analyze every quote and check every source. Of course, this example is not so much making an indictment of the media as just pointing out a funny error. It must be embarrassing for The Sun to come across something like this. If I were the reporter who altered the quote, I would be embarrassed.