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Can you trust a blogger?

Well, that depends. These days, everyone has an opinion and Facebook and blogger sites are means for anyone and everyone to get their opinion out to the public, including me as I am doing now. (Oh, the irony.) The days are long gone of the news media filtering what isn’t relevant, what isn’t appropriate, what isn’t fa ctual and what isn’t important before it gets wide exposure. Used to be, whether it was a news report, a commentary or an opinion letter, there was an editor who made these determinations and decided what to put out and how. That seems like ancient history now. Is this return to information “wild west” days, as was seen in 18 th and 19 th Century newspapers, a good thing? It's both good and bad. The good is that information is now democratized. The editors no longer have control. Power to the people! Give voice to the little man, the vulnerable and the few with no powerful influence! No longer do they depend on the judgment of an editor, have to pay for pri