I couldn't agree more, here, about the potentially huge flaw in accountability that lurks in today's media. In a climate of popular sensationalism and desperate newspapers, all sorts of weird and wonderful things have been surfacing in all of the media outlets. I have seen tv and other traditional news sources take more and more to editorial-style “reports” (and I am not just referring to Fox News, either…), which I assume is to try and fit in better with the blog reading crowd. I have also seen hugely popular blog sites throwing their weight around with their opinionated postings. While that can be fun and spark a conversation or 20, I like to make up my own mind, thank you very much!

After a certain point, one could argue that those bloggers have a responsibility to post in an unbiased manner and act more within the traditional guidelines of reporting (which I note again, have been blurred…) — Or one could simply yell FREEDOM! and argue in the other direction. I don't have the answer.

What I do know, however, is that when combined with the advent and imminent takeover of real time media, one has to be careful not to get caught up in a giant rumour-mill style game of “Telephone”.