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Randy Bear, one of the more thoughtful bloggers in the San Antonio area, lamented the slow decline of newspapers and cautioned his readers yesterday that blogs aren’t authoritative:<\/p>\n

Bloggers such as myself don\u2019t have the time to invest in vetting stories to make sure the information is completely accurate. In many cases I rely on traditional media to do that work and just add a perspective on the story. I also don\u2019t have the skills reporters are taught in school and on the job about reporting as accurately as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You don’t read commentary like this very often in the blogosphere, and frankly, Randy is selling himself short here. I for one find his blog interesting. But he hits on a key problem for bloggers interested in digging up the truth: Time — or the lack of it.<\/p>\n

A reporter has the luxury of getting paid to work full-time at uncovering information. Not a whole lot of bloggers can say that, and that’s why newspapers, for all their faults, are still important civic institutions. Newspapers are able to pay many reporters a full-time salary to go forth and tell the public what’s going on in a complicated world. My bosses pay me to spend weeks, even months, to talk to sources, dig through records and analyze data to find good stories. Sometimes, those stories really make a difference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So as newsroom budgets across the country are being slashed and thousands of journalists lose their jobs, the key challenge is finding an economic model that supports the expense of paying truth-seekers to dig up important stories.<\/p>\n

So I say to Randy: Keep up the good work — and let’s figure out a way to make money off this Internet thing and support good journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randy Bear, one of the more thoughtful bloggers in the San Antonio area, lamented the slow decline of newspapers and cautioned his readers yesterday that blogs aren’t authoritative: Bloggers such as myself don\u2019t have the time to invest in vetting stories to make sure the information is completely accurate. In many cases I rely on … <\/p>\n

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