When Blogging Goes Bad

Blogging can be great for exposing the public needs to know and the politicians are afraid of being revealed.

Of course, the blogosphere can also make everyone a sage expert, which is not always a good thing. Example. The Mountain Goat Report posts several mistake-ridden pages from Conservative Rep. Steve Thayn’s campaign finance papers. Do they prove Rep. Thayn guilty of a crime? No. Do they prove he’s a tool of evil special interests. No. They prove that he struggled with the bureaucratic form from the Idaho department of elections and that his Treasurer, Benjamin Little Bear, needed to fill out forms beforehand and then copy the final draft down, or better yet download it on computer and type it up.

But is it a scandal? No. Is it interesting? It’s slightly between curling and watching paint dry on the boredom scale. Some stories need to be told. This isn’t one.