Sony PS3 gets jailbroken to run Linux (The Inquirer)

A lot of personal bloggers will willfully and purposefully remove or bar commentary when it questions the "truthiness" of any opinion being expressed. I would not hold up LWN as typical.

An furthermore, there is a lot of opinioneering both inside tradition and new media. There are lots of examples of content streams being a popular resource for opinion regardless of factual correctness, tv, newspapers, blogs.. being popular doesn't mean being factually correct..it just means knowing your audience. The sad reality is people self-select what they want to read not because its true but because its entertaining and caters to what the reader has already chosen to believe. This is simple a symptom of a larger cultural problem that goes far beyond traditional versus new media. New media is just better equipped to indulge/exploit the cultural proclivity for self-selection for better or for worse.

-jef