But as you said, a blog = one dude with no budget.
The symbol =! means "does not equal"
I said blog =! one dude with no budget
I even gave an example of a highly funded wealthy blog... which happens to be untrustworthy.
Further I gave a different example how one dude with a blog can become an entire operation (project veritas) when he actually does his job and provides trustworthy news
I want to know factual information about something.
So do, and so far the traditional media has been proven again and again to be the absolute worst source for it.
None of them are there to make money, they are all owned, either by a political party or a private entity, and they are all out there to put out a message.
They are merely highly funded propaganda machines.
Apologies, I had not come across =! before.
The Huffington Post is a hybrid news source: it blends traditional media (i.e. newspaper-stye) with social (i.e. blogs). Why do you view the Huff Po as untrustworthy?
I've never heard of Project Veritas before so cannot comment on that. But yes, media organisations exist to make money (as every other business does, you're not saying something new there...) and no they are not all owned a political party or private entity. News Corp, for example, is a publicly-traded company and I cannot think of any media organisation that is "owned" by a political party (in the West that is). Very happy to be shown I'm wrong on that front (and Silvio Berlusconi doesn't count...).
And then the message.... I agree. But that is why you read from a multiplicity of sources so that you get the most rounded coverage possible.