p2pnet.net News:- The legacy of bloggers in the 2004 election will be that of the, "ragtag bag of conservative bloggers that brought down CBS".

That’s the view of Wonkette, "One of the bloggers responsible for the spread of misleading exit poll data" during the November 2 US elections.

"My retrospective argument seems relevant,’ Ana Marie Cox – aka Wonkette – is quoted as saying in an Online News Association post.

"We had to publish exit polls in order to kill them."

You’ll recall that CBS made a slight ‘mistake in judgment‘ when its Dan Rather questioned US president George W. Bush’s National Guard service, "claiming it was misled by the source of documents that several experts have dismissed as fakes".

Bloggers deserve a role in criticizing and commenting on the news, but won’t replace traditional journalists and shouldn’t be held to the same standards, Cox added.

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See:-
brought down CBS – Wonkette: ‘We had to publish exit polls in order to kill them’, ONA, November 13, 2004
mistake in judgment – CBS apologizes for ‘mistake’, Associated Press, September 21, 2004

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