When Those Pesky Blogs Undermine NPR News: the blogosphere has proven once again to be an amoral place with few rules. The consequences for misbehavior are still vague. The possibility of civic responsibility remains remote. It is a place where the philosophy of "who posts first, wins" predominates. [...]
News organizations may insist on their journalistic prerogatives, update their journalistic ethics guides and hire more ombudsmen, but many bloggers think that's just irrelevant.
And what if they are right?
The blogs showed NPR, when it posted the Defense Department document, that the Web has changed both the rules and the means of disseminating information.
