Blogging the truth
If today's correction and withdrawal of a Reuters photograph teaches anyone anything, it should be the value of weblogs.
Just like two years ago, the blogs have stepped up and corrected a media error.
Of course, the situation here was more than an error. Someone at Reuters worked to make a photo of an attack in Beirut.
What hasn't been made clear is why the changes were made. What are the photojournalists under Reuters' employ trying to accomplish here?
Regardless, this is another black mark for big media, and another victory for the blogs.
I've seen a number of columns from "old journalists" who complain about the blogs' accountability. Certainly, some weblogs are better than others, some more accountable than others.
It's just like newspapers. Some are trustworthy, and some you can get while waiting in line at the grocery store. You just don't believe it when someone writes that pieces of Noah's Ark were found.
It's not hard to decide which blogs are which.