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Glasser cautions that this unregulated breed of blogger can post stories without oversight or verification.

The result can mean the public may take for fact what is not.

The citizen journalists also tend toward the salacious, he said.“Their influence is getting huge,” Glasser said.The Salem State professor pointed to the undoing of former CBS front man Dan Rather, who left his job after bloggers discredited his “60 Minutes” report on President Bush’s National Guard service.“It rips through the blogosphere like a prairie fire,” Glasser said of Rather’s demise.And Ehrlich learned the hard way the limits of technology.

Her database crashed earlier this month, taking with it most of her past posts and links.

“A newspaper is a more durable news source,” said Ehrlich, depressed by the loss of so much ...

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