{"id":9779,"date":"2005-12-24T22:28:53","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T19:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=9779"},"modified":"2005-12-24T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T19:32:35","slug":"why-blogs-are-better-than-mainstream-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/24\/why-blogs-are-better-than-mainstream-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Why blogs are better than mainstream news"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Every day I read more and more blogs and less and less mainstream news.  Why?  Because mainstream news suck!  Most of the mainstream news agencies carry the heavy burden of the printed press and a century of mass media from before the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Picture is a thousand words they say.  Here is a graphical example for you.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooltechzone.com\">Cool Tech Zone<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;A Division of iTech Media.&#8221; Blah blah blah.   One of the recent news items is titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cooltechzone.com\/index.php?option=content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2108\">Microsoft Buys Out Opera<\/a>&#8220;.  Catching, isn&#8217;t it?  It is.<\/p>\n<p>In 5 paragraphs of text to follow, they tell that Microsoft is closing a deal purchasing Opera Software.  Google is mentioned and so on and so forth.  Makes one read a lot, wonder, think, wonder, think, and read some more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>6th paragraph reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.cooltechzone.com\/index.php?option=content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2108\"><p>Update: Opera recently confirmed that Microsoft has not approached the browser maker and there is no active acquistion deal between the two companies currently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In plain English?  OK. &#8220;All you&#8217;ve just read above is bullcrap.  Lies.  We just made it up.&#8221;  Yeah.  They just wasted a whole bunch of your time.  And they are not sorry.  &#8220;Opera recently confirmed&#8230;&#8221;  Confirmed?  Confirmed what?  They didn&#8217;t confirm anything.  In fact, they contradicted.  It should have read something like &#8220;Opera recently contradicted this whole article.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m telling you &#8211; blogs rule&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/12\/23\/1329215&#038;from=rss\">Slashdot post<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Every day I read more and more blogs and less and less mainstream news. Why? Because mainstream news suck! Most of the mainstream news agencies carry the heavy burden of the printed press and a century of mass media from before the Internet. Picture is a thousand words they say. Here is a graphical example &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/24\/why-blogs-are-better-than-mainstream-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why blogs are better than mainstream news<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,20,1252,2076,186,566],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-blogging","tag-browsers","tag-mass-media","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-opera"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7675,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/07\/14\/spider-man-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9779,"position":0},"title":"Spider-Man 2","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 14, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Olga and I just came back from the movies where we saw \"Spider-Man 2\". 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