Here's an interesting post from Hans Kullin which I think has a resonance with the way fellow bloggers picked up on Jackie Danicki's tube experience.
Hans writes....
Running stories based on bloggers' accusations can backfire for mainstream media. That's the conclusion from the recent kerfuffle surrounding an alleged purchase of a "men's magazine". The whole thing started with a blog post by Åsa Hagelstedt where she states that she can reveal information from "a trusted source" that actor Lasse Berghagen buys porno magazines. But the blog post became more than an innocent remark when Swedish daily Aftonbladet decided to make a big story out of it. So when Berghagen strongly denied that the story was true, in a critical article in Aftonbladet, then Hagelstedt got cold feet. Her blog has now been completely deleted but the content can still be found via Google's cache for some time (quote can also be found at Sigge's blog).
Hans goes on to make some useful points:
- Do you trust your friends enough to put your career on the line?
- How can you be sure that second hand information is safe to pass on to others?
- If you are a public person, is that reason enough to be especially careful with the things you blog about?
- If you are caught with a serious mistake, wouldn't it be better to apologize and move on than to delete your blog and hide?
I suspect some of these issues will be debated increasingly during 2007....
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