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[pcurve]

oh the CNN ireport links are nice touch.

http://barkleyuniversity.com/about/newsroom/

the links still work too.

http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1070836

i guess there's zero editorial oversight in the iReport section.

[ceejayoz → pcurve]

> i guess there's zero editorial oversight in the iReport section.

That's explicitly stated. "The stories here are not edited fact-checked or screened before they post." http://ireport.cnn.com/about.jspa

[sukilot → ceejayoz]

Yet they are under the CNN.com domain name, not cnnusercontent.com . therefore CNN.com 's reputation should suffer for it. (hello, Google PageRank team!)

[ceejayoz → sukilot]

Google penalizing a site for inaccurate user-generated content would be a pretty awful precedent. Stuff on iReport is flagged as "not verified by CNN" fairly clearly, as far as I can tell, and if CNN wants to sink its brand this is hardly the first salvo in that attempt.

[coldtea → sukilot]

Yeah, because a) otherwise CNN is known for its good editing, b) people care about those things...

[node-bayarea → pcurve]

Because CNN is awful news company.