Repeating, because it's true

[andrewducker]

I am not comfortable being your primary source of news. I aggregate links based on what I find interesting, outrageous, clever or fascinating. I put them together quickly, while multitasking and often not having time to read full articles before I post them. This would be bad journalistic practice, if this link-blogging were an act of journalism. But it's not.

quoth rm

Now, I don;t think any of you lot do take me as a primary source of news, but I would like to take this moment to make it clear that I do not always read deeply into things I link to, double-check sources, or even think about them for more than 5 seconds. I frequently link to things where I only found where there's one interesting idea and a bunch of nonsense. I link to things which I disagree with but find amusing.

I hope that you find the links amusing. I'm always cheered by people telling me that they do (and that's not a request for ego-boosting), I just want to make it clear that I don't believe everything I link to, and you bleeding well shouldn't either.

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

TMZ is the only news source I trust.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Given that I've seen you link contradictory articles on the same subject in the same post, I'd be amazed if *anyone* thought you believed everything you linked here.
What I will say is that you provide a valuable service with your linkblogging, one that's introduced me to a lot of writers I wouldn't have come across otherwise, and while you're not my 'primary source of news', you're certainly one of four or five different sources that go to the top of my list...

[andrewducker]

Thanks for the compliments!

I do try to pick up a variety of _sensible_ views. I'm unlikely to be taking stories from Fox News any time soon, but I rarely find that any single source agrees with me entirely, so I need a few to cover everything I think.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I don't trust any news source. So, no worries.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

If Michael Lohan says it, you know it's true.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Who's Michael Lohan?

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

I don't mind you posting nonsense, I hope you don't mind it when I show up and say you're posting nonsense.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

ps keep up the good work

[andrewducker]

Not at all. Had I the money I'd be paying people to tell me so.

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

You are not my primary source of news.

I enjoy your links, but I don't take them too seriously.

Still, I hope you keep posting them.

[andrewducker]

Strikes me as a terribly sensible attitude. :->

[ami-bender.livejournal.com]

What???????? Tell me its not so!!!!!
I suspect this is one of those cases that if you dont already know that, then you shoulder be let near the internet.

[laplor.livejournal.com]

Never for one second did I think of you as a primary source of news! More like a clipping service with an agenda. I have always seen your coverage as broad and shallow.

I often find that something you post piques my interest to the point that I will delve into it a bit more deeply on my own, but I never consider the articles you link to be unquestionable paragons of journalistic integrity. At most, they are jumping-off points.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I am sometimes terrified, because I have the strong suspicion that a few of my acquaintances have links to news stories that are spammed onto facebook as their only real source of news.

Of course, I mostly get news beamed into my filling by the government.