Fact checking I completely agree with and I spend a considerable amount of time doing so on many of the posts here – I only asked the questions in a post and it was perfectly legal to post what I did.

Balance? You think the old media is balanced? Why should I be??

If you read elsewhere in the blogosphere you might note some are pointing to a reluctance in old media to cover this story given knowledge for years of abuses etc because some in the old media were on the take or involed in some other manner.

You’re on about “old media” and how they should declare that they were on a jolly funded by the EU and all of that. Totally commendable

Yet what you are alleging here – a family relationship beween Ahern and Molloy – would NEVER be published by any old media because (a) it is obviously untrue (see quotes in the Irish Indo yesterday) and (b) they would have rang the Taoiseach’s office or his constituency office for a quote to clarify.

Much as I love the new breed of bloggers, a little balance and fact-checking might be worth putting on the Xmas want list to Santa

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/1125/fas.html

One down, more to go.