Why were they so easily duped?
Richard Starr asks the question, how could they be so stupid? It is a question which has been flying across the blogsphere for days now. I personally think it is less stupidity as it is arrogance. The Elite Media Monoculture still does not get the fact that we are living in a new media universe. In this new era we can use the Internet to tap the distributed intelligence of millions of Americans, as well as others of course, to investigate the smallest and most arcane detail of a story. So when forged documents find their way to the CBS website, they are seen by thousands and thousands of graphic artists, typesetters, military veterans and forensic document analysts who CBS did not bother to call before they went to press with their story.
This distributed network is the world of the future. It is made possible by the new medium of the personal computer and interconnected network of the Internet which allows all of us to communicate instantly in real time while CBS is still trying to figure out why their story sank like a rock. The blogsphere can bring more resources to bear faster and with more accuracy than CBS can as yet comprehend. They just don't get it yet. But they will.
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