Blogs and The Editor

Connected with blogging and journalism, a topic from Blogging Into the Future http://bloggingintothefuture.wordpress.com/, an interesting idea was raised recently by Chris Matthews, from MSNBC, a former newspaper person, now a broadcaster.

The topic is The Editor. Matthews’ point was that in most of mainstream journalism, print, broadcast, whatever, there is an editor who checks a journalist’s work before it goes out. That includes not only spelling and grammar, but also facts and accuracy.

Maybe the absence of an editor is something to think about when reading topical blogs.