Open Thread: Citizen Vs. Professional Journalists
Can the two get along and does it matter to the information consumer?
On Saturday night, the information age presented the Baltimore area with a highly unusual situation. Local blogger Frank James MacArthur, aka A.F. James MacArthur or Baltimore Spectator, was involved in a standoff with police, who were trying to take him into custody for allegedly violating probation. He has since been taken into custody on gun possession charges stemming from weapons found in the home after the standoff ended. Whereas a decade ago, the information would have predominantly come from television networks and the websites of major news publications. MacArthur used online tools available to tell his side of the story. North Baltimore Patch Local Editor Adam Bednar discussed this topic on the Marc Steiner Show Wednesday on WEAA…
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Philip Berg
6:22 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Maybe if the Sun had done some serious investigation into the "accidental" shooting of Baltimore's finest by it's own, they would have some cred. The MSM does not address the inherant problems of the status quo of the State monopoly on maximum violence. For a brilliant discussion of why this monopoly is neither necessary or desirable, go to Mises.org and listen to the podcasts by Hans Hoppe. Here… more ›