Pot, kettle

[supergee]

The mainstream media stop passing along the words of "a high administration official," "a source near the White House," et al., long enough to warn that blogs will lead us to perdition because they are anonymous.

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[zillah975]

I'm not sure that's a pot-kettle issue, I think it's an apples-oranges issue, or at least apples-pears. Leaving aside the question of whether or not one trusts the mainstream media, there's a substantive difference between when someone I trust tells me, "A friend, whom I can't name, told me [x]," and when I'm walking down the street and someone I've never seen before says, "hey, get this! [x]." In the first case, a person I trust presumably knows their source, so even though it's anonymous to me, I have reason to believe the source is trustworthy; in the second case, I'm getting the information directly from a source who is anonymous to me and whom I have no reason to trust.