Another Pop Gun Attack on Bloggers

Who cares if people don't go to blogs for the truth. What is the truth? It is opinion and don't buy it without checking if it is important to you (rather like shares I suppose).

......the blogosphere - a virtual soapbox of citizen reporters, self-proclaimed experts and armchair commentators - is looking less like Drudge's utopian vision and more like the wild west.

Populated by anyone with a viewpoint and an internet connection, it's a daily ping-pong match of unfiltered opinion. But without the traditional checks and balances of mainstream media, can we really trust what's being said?

For me that is the great thing about it. A great free ranging discussion. Laugh a bit, think a bit, enter into discussion, write your own thoughts... You are not being paid (much if anything). Enjoy! Make up your own mind.

When I was little there was two sources of information in our house, The BBC and The Scotsman Newspaper. My dad never talked about politics having grown up in an angry disputatious communist house in West Fife. My mum kept here opinions to herself.

I am glad that there are a lot more sources and ways of interacting and receiving information now. There is obviously too much information now and we just have to sift through what we want to hear. Don't like it? Disagree? Comment or Click and then gone. The irreverent give and take of blogs are just part of the puzzle that makes up my understanding of some of the things that are going on in the world.

Lighten up Sir. It is all good clean fun.

Thanks Gary Sauer Thomson