Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: Wheat, Blogs, and Journalism

Recently, I've been severely interested in a particular human-interest story in which a sufferer of celiac disease was told she couldn't use a rice substitute for communion. As I got further and further into it, I realized that I wasn't interested in it at all because of its surface interest but because of how intimately it was allowing me to understand how blogs and news stories have become integrated on the internet. Having said that, I discovered another blogger who spoke specifically to what has interested me about that blog/news integration.

This is the initial blog - Three Years of Hell to Become the Devil: Wheat, Blogs, and Journalism

This is the lucid and reasoned commentary that has been generated by it - Tony Doesn't Like Me, I Guess

The thorns of this are that there is substantially so much more dross to this news/blog story out there on the internet, both on news sites and in blogs, to sift through to find these kinds of commentaries. Who has the time for every story they are interested in to research these nuances? Journalists certainly don't, as is proven out by the amazing number of minimally researched stories about this, and bloggers have to be scrutinized even deeper because of their tendencies not just to gloss over things but to outright lie and mislead. I guess this is why it's important to find fellow bloggers which you learn to respect whom you know want to research deeply into things that you don't really want to. And they can start depend upon you, perhaps, to research topics that they don't have the time or inclination to delve into.