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Seriously? Why make something like that up? Were there really no other worthwhile stories about touching heroics or government incompetence he could have told about Katrina? Or did Jindal just want to put himself in the center of the action.
This also shows us something about how the Internet does a crowd-sourced type of investigative journalism. The skepticism started at DailyKos. Skepticism about a lot of things started there—and some of the skepticism turned out to be pretty baseless. (Who is Trig’s real mother?) Bloggers might right up insufficiently researchd stories—and people reading them should know them for what they are. Others might have a few more facts to flesh out the story. The primary difference between this and what surely happens in more traditional and reputable newsrooms is that the bloggers often go public before they have a story. The process is messy, but the results can be real.
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