Joho the Blog posts some interesting observations about the different rhetorical strategies used by journalists versus those used by webloggers (although he doesn't use the R-word):
Journalists have a tiny vocabulary for expressing incredulity: 'alleged,' 'reportedly,' 'claimed,' 'suspected.' The rest of us have a rich rhetoric of semi-belief, starting with a simple 'I think that...' and going all the way to 'I find it really hard to believe anything that lying fathead says, but...'Although this seems like a minor difference, as Joho notes, weblog rhetoric provides a wider range of "degrees of belief" for reporting. Whether this is good or bad depends on how you look at it.
[via Joho the Blog]
Posted by johndan at January 21, 2005 03:33 PM | TrackBack