Now, for pure bloggers, for individual people who are just posting their own thoughts, they would still run the same risk of saying something wrong or embarrassing, but they wouldn't harm their institutions by doing so.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If bloggers are to improve our public discourse - helping busy and usually uninformed people make sense of the world - it is necessary to use some sort of standard with which to judge their reliability. Perhaps the answer (strictly advisory) is a body of their peers. Perhaps not.
Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
I think it hurts blogs when they have to turn off their comments.
I think it's a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I'm for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.
Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.
I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.
Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences.
A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
Blogs are evil. Actually, the blogs aren't as evil as blog comments.
I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.