Not so long ago one of the frequent claims people in the conventional media used to make about “blogsters” was that you couldn’t trust what they wrote because it might not be true.
You don’t hear that sort of thing as much as you used to. But whenever the idea comes up, you have to wonder why some people believe that the Internet is uniquely vulnerable to harbouring untrue things.
After all, just this past weekend the Globe and Mail had a story by Jane Taber that was just nonsense.
Lots of people believed it. People in the provincial government circulated it widely.
But it was false.
