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Rolling Stone Writer: McChrystal Pals 'Were Lying' About Ground Rules (Aol / DailyFinance)
Michael Hastings, whose reporting compelled the White House to fire Gen. Stanley McChrystal as commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, does not mince words when it comes to allegations that he broke pre-arranged ground rules or agreements to go off the record. "They were lying," Hastings said, referring to the unnamed sources who leveled the accusations last month as fallout from his story mounted. "What they said to The Washington Post and, I think, to the Army Times is fiction. And they know that."

Scott Rosenberg: Why Are News Corrections So Hard? (KDMC)
From Andrew Breitbart to the New York Post, it's clear that many news professionals and organizations have some issues with making corrections. Scott Rosenberg, Mediabugs founder, contends that in general, blogs seem more willing and able than most news organizations to make corrections to stories. Part of this problem is the nature of media tools: It's free and very easy to simply add some strikethrough formatting or clarifying/corrective text to a story when you publish using blogging software like Wordpress.

An Altered BP Photo Leads The Blogosphere (Journalism.org)
Last week, the two most popular stories among bloggers highlighted the roles of -- and differences between -- traditional journalism and digital media in a rapidly changing news universe. An altered photograph of BP's crisis center during its Gulf cleanup that was first identified by blogger John Aravosis of Americablog provided an example of how social media play an important role as fact-checkers. And a satirical piece by a Washington Post staffer focused on the dramatic changes in newspaper journalism.

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