The Billo allegations aren't anonymously sourced. They have the court transcripts.
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Originally posted by: forkushVQuoteNope. Gawker isn't a blogger posting an anonymous rumor. But Gawker does have an internet connection just like PJ's example, so I can see how you got confused.
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Originally posted by: pjstroh
A blogger with an internet connection and his own web page posted an anonymous rumor suggesting something unscrupulous about a person from THE OTHER SIDE. Its safe to presume this rumor is true until the subject of the rumor can prove it isn't.
But there's no reason to be abstract. The "sides" are always the same when this scenario manifests.
You're talking about the Bill O'Reilly Gawker allegations, right?
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Originally posted by: forkushV
No, Gawker isn't a blogger, it's a fairly popular publication. No, a blogger didn't post an anonymous rumor, a publication (Gawker) cited an anonymous source. You know, like Deep Throat in the Watergate saga.
Both sides do it? Bullshit.
QuoteNo, I was simply trying to explain to you the difference between a lone blogger and Gawker, a lone blogger posting gossip and a publication citing an anonymous source, and a lone partisan blogger versus an non-partisan publication.
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Originally posted by: forkushV
No, Gawker isn't a blogger, it's a fairly popular publication. No, a blogger didn't post an anonymous rumor, a publication (Gawker) cited an anonymous source. You know, like Deep Throat in the Watergate saga.
Both sides do it? Bullshit.
So...Forkush equates the Gawker Celebrity Gossip blog with The Washington Post...
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Originally posted by: forkushVQuoteNo, I was simply trying to explain to you the difference between a lone blogger and Gawker, a lone blogger posting gossip and a publication citing an anonymous source, and a lone partisan blogger versus an non-partisan publication.
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Originally posted by: forkushV
No, Gawker isn't a blogger, it's a fairly popular publication. No, a blogger didn't post an anonymous rumor, a publication (Gawker) cited an anonymous source. You know, like Deep Throat in the Watergate saga.
Both sides do it? Bullshit.
So...Forkush equates the Gawker Celebrity Gossip blog with The Washington Post...
I guess I should have typed slower.
Next I suppose I'll have to explain the meaning of the word "slander" to you.
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Originally posted by: forkushVQuoteNo, I was simply trying to explain to you the difference between a lone blogger and Gawker, a lone blogger posting gossip and a publication citing an anonymous source, and a lone partisan blogger versus an non-partisan publication.
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Originally posted by: forkushV
No, Gawker isn't a blogger, it's a fairly popular publication. No, a blogger didn't post an anonymous rumor, a publication (Gawker) cited an anonymous source. You know, like Deep Throat in the Watergate saga.
Both sides do it? Bullshit.
So...Forkush equates the Gawker Celebrity Gossip blog with The Washington Post...
I guess I should have typed slower.
Next I suppose I'll have to explain the meaning of the word "slander" to you.
Citing anonymous and questionable sources to attack political opposition...especially at a personal level is no way to go through life Whether it's one person's blog or a writer with a vendetta from the 'Publication' Gawker or the 'Publication' 'National Inquirer they are not known for journalistic integrity. You said it yourself....the celebrity gossip blog Gawker whores for clicks. So yeah, Gawker isn't the same as a one man blog with political bias. But it isn't a model of journalistic integrity either.....and they don't care as long as they get the eyeballs.
And I'm not sure which is sleazier...A right wing LVA poster linking to some political blog with anonymous sources that he thinks is true; a left wing LVA poster linking to some Celebrity Gossip 'Publication' with anonymous sources that he thinks is true...but doesn't really care as long as it attacks 'Faux News'...Or Harry Reid on the Senate Floor smearing Mitt Romney with anonymous allegations' that he knew weren't true. Make no mistake...they're all sleazy...and both sides do it....The politics of personal destruction.
