Mainstream media rubbishes blogs and ends up with eggy-face....
Follow the trail and larf...
Norman Lebrecht says bloggers don't check facts, particularly criticising Pliable's lack of FactChecking.
Lebrecht calls Henry Fogel "a suit once hired by the Arts Council to abolish London orchestras."
Gert says "Oops". You know, sometimes people like Pliable/Bob and Henry Fogel talk the talk because they know stuff having walked the walk. I suspect the concept of 'knowing stuff' is becoming increasingly alien to too many journalists. Either they google, or they opine, or they extemporise. Yet an average reader would more likely expect a supposedly professional newspaper to be more accurate than blogs by people who are amateur writers, albeit about their own professional sphere.
How embarrassing to write factually inaccurate statements about people who don't check their facts.
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