As the room wrestles with blogger vs. traditional media, here’s something to think about:
“… In the West, ever since ancient Greek philosophy, and especially since Immanuel Kant, the realm of philosophy has been divided into the true (objective truth), the good (moral truth), and the beautiful (aesthetic truth). In the East, Buddhism has a similar conception in the form of the Buddha (individual truth), the dharma (objective truth), and the sangha (collective truth). Roughly, objective truth corresponds to science, the external point-of-view on all holons, both individual and collective (the two quadrants on the right). Subjective truth corresponds to art, which is the internal point-of-view of any holon (the upper left quadrant). And moral truth corresponds to ethics and culture, the internal collective point-of-view of any holon (the lower left quadrant)….”
More at: http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m1548/4_16/76560569/p1/article.jhtml?term=
I tend to put traditional media in the “collective truth” bucket and bloggers in the “individual truth” bucket. Both, no doubt, believe they belong in the “objective truth” bucket. And, yes, sometimes both fall into the “subjective truth” bucket… and that’s the truth.