SILICON LOUNGE: Gatekeepers Crash Journalist Meet to Air Dirty Laundry
"Despite inevitable violations, we need journalistic standards -- which are often ignored in self-published reports on the Internet, or in bogus statements passed by e-mail. Of course we need 'gatekeeping' -- but where should it come from, and is 'self-gatekeeping' possible? Increasingly, our gatekeepers are operating under a corporate umbrella, whether America Online, Microsoft, Disney or a daily newspaper comglomerate."
