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BLOGIC 101. I teach logic. Here is a bit of blogic. If you've been close to a news story, you are aware of the logic of media truth: the nearer you are to a news story, the falser it is, the farther you are from a story, the truer the story seems. Enter the blogger. How the blog world works is like a Darwinian filter machine, a fast pace culling of expert judgments which take you point-blank up to the pertinent details of a news story. Take, for example, Instapundit's coverage of the 300 millimeter pistol story, the CNN assault weapon story, and the BBC Jessica Lynch story. Today we are getting an experience of journalism which in the past was the privilege only of those who had some specialized knowledge of the details of the story. In effect, we are getting a tour inside the sausage factory. It isn't pretty. We see a lot of scraps shoveled off the floor and into our news. We see journalists who think we should be eating soybeans or pork -- and stuff their journalism with this stuff -- when what we want is kosher beef. We see the guy who sells ad copy to the boss put in charge of the factory line. And we see con men with substance problems in charge of sausage content for reasons of politics -- both personal and politically correct. Blogging technology makes anyone with specialized knowledge an effective muckraker -- of the sausage factory which is CNN, The New York Times, The Miami Herald, the BBC. And that's your blogic lesson for the day.