Web Offers Hefty Voice to Critics of Mainstream Journalists

Today, the Times covers blogging twice, first in this article, Web Offers Hefty Voice to Critics of Mainstream Journalists, which highlights the torrent of criticism of political news and journalists emanating from blogs on the left and right: The criticism comes from both sides of the political spectrum and from an array of perspectives - middle-of-the-road independent critics like those at the Columbia Journalism Review; unabashedly partisan blog authors; and even from within the mainstream news media. ABC's political Web site, The Note, frequently critiques individual reporters..

On Fridays, Bloggers Sometimes Retract Their Claws

Weird trackback thing

I noticed that one entry here had a trackback (there's what, three people who read this site?). I followed the trackback and...the article wasn't spam, but it had absolutely nothing to do with the article I'd posted (a link to something at the philly inquirer), so I deleted it.

Might be my next hack: ensure that incoming trackbacks actually link to the article being pinged.

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