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Dear Readers,
If you read the editorial section of today’s Poly,you might have stumbled across our name! Poly Editor-In-Chief Cara Riverso mentioned us in an editorial about the reliability of blogs. She did call us “surprisingly well informed” though. Cara goes on to point out that “some of the comments published are not completely factual.” This is true, and we had thought about this possibility prior to starting our blog. We made an active decision to not censor the comments on the site. We feel strongly that people are allowed to have and express an opinion (however misinformed they may be.) We do our best to publish the most accurate news we can, and hope you enjoy what commentary we add. As Cara said, blogs should not be treated as “be all, end all” news sources, just part of the news puzzle, trying to get at the truth. We’re glad you’ve founds us, and we hope you keep coming back!
That being said, we are always looking for contributing authors!
Love,
The Editors
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I read the article and was put off by the theme that web-based medium should be treated as lesser forms of media than the printed source. While I believe The Poly does a decent job of relaying news and information, I dislike the notion that we should trust Twitter, Wikipedia, Blogs, etc less than The Poly for reliable fact-checked information. As a reader I have no clue what revisions have been made to an article published in the Poly and sources are rarely cited to the extent they might be on a Wikipedia article or a Blog (like yours commonly does) where the full text of statement is included.
Then again print news is having trouble making ends meet… maybe The Poly should start their own website.
@Brian
We have a website & are working on a face-lift for it … it’s just the problem of finding someone who wants to update it (ironic at a tech school, i know, but if you know someone, send them my way).
And again, most of my commentary was about blogs in general. This one does a pretty good job citing information, and so do many others. But obviously there are exceptions and, as I said, the main problem is the comments section that can be full of libel because those writing them aren’t necessarily as informed or have the sources that authors of blogs/websites and those of print media can have.
Also as a note to you authors of the blog … since you don’t wish to censor comments, you may want to consider running an editor’s note following those you know to be false. it’ll protect you from libel claims and also keep everyone better informed.
I think August Fietkau may be interested in updating the Poly website.