The irresponsibility of blogging

Today I read a couple interesting blog posts on jsonline.com. It seems that Tom Hardicourt, one of two main guys for the Journal-Sentinel that covers the Brewers, has just regurgitated a giant pile of shit in his blog. This really has nothing to do with my opinion of Yost, right now I'm in the mood of, fire his fucking ass and I would give two shits less, however the manner in which a reporter should conduct himself has been lost on Mr. Hardicourt. I've read some of his mailbags before, he's a very short tempered, condescending person in his response to reader's emails. It would be like giving me a job with JS and saying, meh write whatever you feel like, we're not gonna check shit or edit your work.

So back to the topic at hand, Hardicourt's regurgitated shit. He basically says in this blog posting, that's read by hundreds, probably thousands of Brewers fans within a day or two, that some guy named "Badger Blogger" says Yost just got fired. What? Ok, so even if this guy was a big deal in the world of blogging, he even claims himself that he was unable to confirm what he had just wrote. Why, if you were a reporter for a legitimate newspaper, would you regurgitate that shit onto your papers website? This guy's blog isn't even about sports, it's about politics. Is this what the world of reporting news has come to? In the face of the internet, people are so desperate to be the first one to post that something has happened that they are willing to just toss random quotes from blogging websites into their own articles on the off chance it might be true. Here's a thought, instead of using Mr. Badger Blogger's information, why don't you use your contacts within the team to try and get your own information Hardicourt? I'm sure they're better than Badger Blogger's inside guy that's spewing out information. Maybe write up an insightful article about the topic instead of being that guy that hits reply first on a topic on a message board and just types in "FIRST".

Before anyone comes down on me for regurgitating shit on this blog... I don't have the sources that Tom Hardicourt does, nor is this a job for me like it is for him.