Transparency Begets Trust in the Ever Expanding Blogosphere

Part1:
Dear God what have I gotten myself into. To begin I must give a disclaimer. I am completely cross as to the way that I explain myself in part 1. The ability to be random will show itself to great extent, whether you want it to or not. I tend not to curse. Hooray. (=3)
->Basically what my article, named in the title above, is about how blogs are becoming more of a common "interest" then those of actual brand-name news websites, such as the New York and Los Angeles Times. I believe that this is entirely true, however, due to the nature of the assignment I have been given, I must instead find some small part of it to argue, whether or not it is entirely a very large portion of the mentioned article. I plan to do so (argue) with what seems to be some pretty basic point-outs that may actually have a very large impact. We'll see.

Part 2:
When a person looks at a blog, they see an area where information has been posted and/or published. This information may or may not be true. Say the Blog poster has not taken the time to cite his sources or give any background information. There could be many reasons as to why he/she has not. If the blog poster was an eyewitness to a murder or even that happened not but a few minutes ago, then obviously, citing sources would be impossible. However, if the poster simply did not cite sources to an event that happened around a month ago, who is not to say the person reading the post can't do a small amount of research himself? If a blog post looks fishy, as if it may be fake, the first thing to logically do is to make sure it isn't, through personal research.
J.D. Lascia also wrote in his/her article "Why do many readers find bloggers more believable than mainstream news organizations?" I believe the reason for this is because blog posts are from normal people, like most of the population. Therefore, the masses feel a sort of relation to the poster, understanding what they have to say, and thus accepting what they have to say for granted. Of course, if the blog is completely incapable of being read, using words in "leetspeek"or a failure of capitalization and punctuation, one can assume that the post itself is not to be trusted. After all, how is *my* post to be trusted more than anybody else's?