On a fact-free piece on a complaint about fact-checking

Whilst speaking of journalists who don’t bother to check their facts, the SMH’s Razor blog seems to be a tad keen on drawing a distinction between “bloggers” and “real” journalists. You’d think they’d be careful to not alienate their audience (presumably mostly geeks) in this way, but apparently not: the Big Media agenda seems to have come through rather clearly, as fact-checking standards for SMH weblogs are (one would hope — but possibly not) rather less strict than their ‘real’ journalism.

Robert Scoble’s cell phone number has been in the side column of his blog for ages. This wouldn’t be such a big deal if your blog post — I daren’t call it an ‘article’ or anything else that comes closer to ‘journalism’, lest they take offense — wasn’t speaking on the subject of lack-of-fact checking. Caught out by irony, it seems.