Berlind on the new tempo of fact-checking
David Berlind writes a long piece about fact-checking that concludes:
…as the established media community picks up the pace, there are those of us in it who would prefer to keep constant the number of chances we’re taking. But if the PR community doesn’t also reinvent itself to keep pace with the media revolution by responding to the fact checkers on blogopshere time, it will leave those writers with no choice but to take more chances. I don’t know about you, but if I were a PR professional, I sure wouldn’t want to be the guy that blew that one opportunity to contain the story that snow-balled into a disaster for the company I represent.
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